Sebastian Korda and Gael Monfils will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 8:00 pm on STADIUM 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Korda who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sebastian Korda is the pick to win this match.
Sebastian Korda -> 1.78
Gael Monfils -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Korda vs. Gael Monfils

There is no head to head record between Sebastian Korda and Gael Monfils since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Sebastian Korda

Sebastian Korda

3 - 4win/loss

Hard
3-3
I Hard
0-1
Rank
48
High
15
LWWWLWWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-18 12-8 5-5 7-5 0-0 0-0
2024 31-19 17-9 5-5 2-2 7-3 0-0
2023 26-16 18-8 1-3 4-3 3-2 0-0
2022 34-22 13-9 8-6 12-5 1-2 0-0
2021 36-20 12-8 6-5 13-5 5-2 0-0

Ranked no. 25, the American will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Marseille where he lost 6-7(3) 7-6(4) 6-4 to Virtanen in the 1st round on the 10th of February.

Korda has an aggregate 3-3 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Sebastian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Adelaide.

Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 245-159 record. He has a positive 102-67 record on hard.

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2024. See his history.

Indian Wells
Korda's Record

Gael Monfils

Gael Monfils

11 - 3win/loss

Hard
11-3
I Hard
0-0
Rank
68
High
6
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-15 14-9 3-3 0-0 1-3 0-0
2024 25-21 15-11 3-6 2-2 5-2 0-0
2023 16-15 8-8 2-4 6-3 0-0 0-0
2022 14-7 13-5 1-1 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 18-17 8-7 2-4 7-3 1-3 0-0

Ranked no. 42, the French player got to the 2nd round after defeating Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round, Monfils had a good straight sets win against Struff (6-4 6-4). During the match Monfils scored 70 points vs Struff’s 60. Gael was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Monfils fired 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Gael Monfils was very effective on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Gael broke Struff 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

His best result of the year was winning the title in Auckland where he overcame Zizou Bergs in the final 6-3 6-4.

The French player has an overall 10-3 win-loss record in 2025, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2016. See his history.

Indian Wells
Monfils's Record

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