Luca Nardi and Mitchell Krueger will square off in the 1st round of the Citi Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 3 sets.
Luca Nardi -> 1.65
Mitchell Krueger -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Mitchell Krueger
There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Mitchell Krueger since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Luca Nardi
18 - 17win/loss
78
70
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 9-7 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-36 | 20-10 | 8-13 | 12-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 5-2 | 11-10 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-3 | 26-13 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-9 | 7-2 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 78, Nardi will start his run in Washington after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-1 6-4 6-2 to Etcheverry in the 1st round on the 2nd of July.
Luca has an aggregate 18-17 win-loss record in 2024, 9-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Naples Challenger where he overcame Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the final 5-7 7-6(3) 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Luca has an overall 139-110 record. He has a positive 44-24 record on hard.
Previously in Washington
Luca has never competed in this tournament before.
Mitchell Krueger
33 - 19win/loss
192
135
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-19 | 22-9 | 9-7 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 15-19 | 4-4 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-28 | 18-15 | 6-5 | 1-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-24 | 19-12 | 5-5 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-13 | 14-8 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 192, Mitchell reached the 1st round after defeating Denis Yevseyev 6-2 6-4 and Zachary Svajda 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Svajda (6-2 6-2). During the match Krueger scored 65 points vs Svajda’s 45. Krueger was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Krueger fired 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Mitchell Krueger conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Krueger put 57% of his first serves in, winning 89% (24/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Mitchell broke Svajda 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Indian Wells 1 Challenger where he beat Brandon Holt in the final 4-6 6-3 6-4 and the Little Rock Challenger where he defeated Yuta Shimizu in the final 6-3 6-4.
The American has an aggregate 33-19 win-loss record in 2024, 22-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st
round in 2017, 2018 and 2021. See his history.Tennis Scores in Washington
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Harold MayotMayot (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeff WolfWolf – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristian GarinGarin – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-64 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Borna CoricCoric (6-74 7-68 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Maxime CressyCressy (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Adam WaltonWalton (7-66 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Christian GarinGarin (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction