Roberto Carballes Baena and Mitchell Krueger will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Hangzhou Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:00 pm on COURT CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roberto Carballes Baena who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Roberto Carballes Baena is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Carballes Baena -> 1.76
Mitchell Krueger -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Mitchell Krueger

This will be the 2^nd time that Roberto Carballes Baena and Mitchell Krueger play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Carballes Baena (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Carballes Baena won 3-6 6-2 6-4 7-6(3) in the 1^st round in at the U.S. Open back in 2018.

Roberto Carballes Baena

Ranked no. 55, Carballes Baena reached the 2^nd round after defeating Corentin Moutet 7-6(6) 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Moutet (7-6⁶ 6-1). During the match, Carballes Baena scored 78 points vs Moutet’s 60. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Regarding the service games, Carballes Baena recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Roberto Carballes Baena lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Carballes Baena put 75% of his first serves in, winning 72% (38/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Carballes Baena broke Moutet 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Carballes Baena has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (376-293). 6-8 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Carballes Baena has a compiled 31-53 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Braunschweig Challenger where he beat Botic Van De Zandschulp in the final 6-1 6-3 and the Seville Challenger where he beat Daniel Altmaier in the final 6-3 7-5.

The Spaniard has a composed 31-23 win-loss record in 2024, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hangzhou

The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.

Mitchell Krueger

Ranked no. 140, Mitchell got to the 2^nd round after defeating Nicolas Mejia 6-4 6-2.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Indian Wells 1 Challenger where he overcame 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 a compiled 39-23 win-loss record in 2024, 28-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Carballes Baena	Krueger
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	18
Pts	78-60	60-45
Total Points	138	105
Winners	38	24
%Winners	49%	40%

Both Carballes Baena and Krueger played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Carballes Baena and Krueger have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Carballes Baena played 2 games more than Krueger. The Spaniard scored 38 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Krueger struck 24 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Carballes Baena	Krueger
Aces	3	5
Avg per match	3	5
1st in	53/71	33/52
%1st in	75%	63%
1st pts	38/53	24/33
%1st pts	72%	73%
2nd pts	8/18	15/19
%2nd pts	44%	79%

Carballes Baena blasted 3 aces . Krueger struck 5 aces . Carballes Baena won 72% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Krueger won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 79% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Carballes Baena	Krueger
Won	4	3
Converted	4/9	3/6
% Converted	44%	50%
Conceded	4	2
Saved	2	2
% Saved	50%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

Carballes Baena broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Roberto surrendered his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Mitchell broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Mitchell was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Carballes Baena
	R1 Moutet	Total
Score	7-66 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	78-60	78-60
Total points	138	138
Winners	38	38
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	53/71	53/71
% 1st in	75%	75%
1st pts	38/53	38/53
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	8/18	8/18
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Krueger
	Q1 Mejia	Q3 Uchiyama	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	18	19	37
pts	60-45	–	60-45
Total points	105	0	105
Winners	24		24
%Winners	40%	0%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	0	5
Double Faults	1		1
1st in	33/52	/	33/52
% 1st in	63%	0%	63%
1st pts	24/33	/	24/33
% 1st pts	73%	0%	73%
2nd pts	15/19	/	15/19
% 2nd pts	79%	0%	79%
Breaks
Won	3		3
Converted	3/6	/	3/6
Converted %	50%	0%	50%
Conceded	2		2
Saved	2/2	0/	2
Saved %	100%	–	100%
Times Broken	0		0

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou

• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-4 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Marin CilicCilic – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction