Mikhail Kukushkin and Giulio Zeppieri will square off in the qualifications of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:30 am on STADIUM 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.615
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Giulio Zeppieri
There is no head to head record between Mikhail Kukushkin and Giulio Zeppieri since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-14 | 8-8 | 3-2 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-32 | 24-10 | 10-9 | 12-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-24 | 17-11 | 3-5 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 18-11 | 0-2 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-24 | 8-9 | 0-6 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 166, Mikhail got to the qualifications after beating Theo Papamalamis 6-4 6-7(4) 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani defeated Papamalamis (6-4 6-74 7-5). During the match, Kukushkin scored 128 points vs Papamalamis’s 124. The Kazakhstani was quite aggressive to blast 65 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kukushkin scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve 3 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 73% of his first serves in, winning 63% (65/103) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (16/38) on the 2nd serve. The Kazakhstani broke Papamalamis 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Kukushkin has winning record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (272-239). 5-5 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kukushkin has an aggregate 127-97 match record in the last years on hard.
Kukushkin has a compiled 7-8 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Giulio Zeppieri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-12 | 3-3 | 10-8 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-18 | 8-4 | 7-10 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-26 | 7-5 | 19-13 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-31 | 1-2 | 25-22 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 0-0 | 26-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 394, Giulio got to the qualifications after beating Chun Hsin Tseng 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Zeppieri had a good straight sets win against Hsin Tseng (6-2 6-1). During the match Zeppieri scored 57 points vs Hsin Tseng’s 37. Zeppieri was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Zeppieri fired 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Giulio Zeppieri conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Zeppieri put 63% of his first serves in, winning 82% (28/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. Giulio broke Hsin Tseng 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The Italian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Koblenz Challenger.
Zeppieri has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kukushkin | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 15 |
| Pts | 128-124 | 57-37 |
| Total Points | 252 | 94 |
| Winners | 65 | 28 |
| %Winners | 51% | 49% |
Both Kukushkin and Zeppieri played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mikhail Kukushkin dropped 1 set while Giulio Zeppieri hasn’t lost a set so far. Kukushkin has played 1 set more than Zeppieri (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kukushkin played 20 games more than Zeppieri. Mikhail scored 65 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian made 28 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kukushkin | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 6 |
| 1st in | 103/141 | 34/54 |
| %1st in | 73% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 65/103 | 28/34 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 16/38 | 8/20 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 40% |
Kukushkin recorded 1 ace . Zeppieri also blasted 6 aces . Kukushkin won 63% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Zeppieri won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 40% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kukushkin | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 63% | 67% |
| Conceded | 13 | 1 |
| Saved | 10 | 1 |
| % Saved | 77% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Mikhail broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Kukushkin conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded. Zeppieri broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Giulio was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Kukushkin | |||
| Q1 Papamalamis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-74 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 128-124 | 128-124 | |
| Total points | 252 | 252 | |
| Winners | 65 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 103/141 | 103/141 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 65/103 | 65/103 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/38 | 16/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 10/13 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 77% | 77% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Zeppieri | |||
| Q1 Hsin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-37 | 57-37 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 34/54 | 34/54 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 28/34 | 28/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/20 | 8/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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