Bruno Kuzuhara and Moerani Bouzige will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Tyler Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on STADIUM 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bruno Kuzuhara who should win in 2 sets.
Bruno Kuzuhara -> 1.32
Moerani Bouzige -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Bruno Kuzuhara vs. Moerani Bouzige
There is no head to head record between Bruno Kuzuhara and Moerani Bouzige since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Bruno Kuzuhara
20 - 15win/loss
530
394
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-32 | 12-16 | 15-11 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-30 | 13-6 | 28-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-23 | 8-13 | 20-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-13 | 6-6 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 436 (career-high), Kuzuhara will start his run in the Tyler Challenger after he played his last match in the Little Rock Challenger where he lost 6-1 4-6 6-4 to Martin in the qualifications on the 27th of May.
The American has an overall 19-15 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Kuzuhara’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Pensacola.
Talking about his overall career, Bruno has an overall 97-81 record. He has a positive 31-28 record on hard.
Previously in the Tyler Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Moerani Bouzige
20 - 16win/loss
597
553
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-33 | 40-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-36 | 33-27 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-19 | 13-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-4 | 21-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 599, Bouzige reached the 1st round after beating Shintaro Imai 6-4 1-6 6-4 and Keegan Smith 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Smith (6-4 6-4). During the match Bouzige scored 66 points vs Smith’s 57. Moerani was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Bouzige fired 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Moerani Bouzige was very effective on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 68% (17/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bouzige broke Smith twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Bouzige started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Moerani’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Monastir.
The Australian has an aggregate 20-15 win-loss record in 2024, 20-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tyler Challenger
Bouzige has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Tyler Challenger
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- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Blaise BicknellBicknell (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Trevor SvajdaSvajda (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Andres AndradeAndrade (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – (0-0) – H2H and prediction