Naomi Osaka and Yuliia Starodubtseva will face off in the 1^st round of the Miami Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Naomi Osaka who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Naomi Osaka is the pick to win this match.
Naomi Osaka -> 1.169
Yuliia Starodubtseva -> 5.05

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Prediction and head to head Naomi Osaka vs. Yuliia Starodubtseva

There is no head to head record between Naomi Osaka and Yuliia Starodubtseva since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Naomi Osaka

Ranked no. 61, Osaka will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Indian Wells where she lost 6-4 6-4 to Camila Osorio Serrano in the 1^st round on the 5^th of March.

The Japanese has an overall 6-3 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Osaka’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Auckland.

Talking about her overall career, The Japanese has an overall 266-148 record. She has a positive 188-92 record on hard.

Previously in Miami

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2022. See her history.

Yuliia Starodubtseva

Ranked no. 108, Starodubtseva reached the 1^st round after defeating Varvara Lepchenko 5-7 6-1 6-1 and Tatjana Maria 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Starodubtseva had a good straight sets win against Maria (6-4 6-3). During the match Starodubtseva scored 66 points vs Maria’s 54. Starodubtseva was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Starodubtseva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Yuliia Starodubtseva lost the serve once and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Starodubtseva put 76% of her first serves in, winning 77% (34/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 29% (4/14) on the 2nd serve. Yuliia broke Maria 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Starodubtseva started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.

Yuliia has a compiled 3-8 win-loss record in 2025, 3-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Miami

Starodubtseva has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Miami

• Ricardo Rodriguez-PaceRodriguez-Pace – Aziz OuakaaOuakaa (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Skander MansouriMansouri – Francesco LiucciLiucci (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Imanol Lopez MorilloLopez Morillo – Eric CaleguerCaleguer (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime HamouHamou – Nicolas BianchiBianchi (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aziz DougazDougaz – Ameur Ben HassenBen Hassen (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jake HerseyHersey – Tomislav JotovskiJotovski (6-3 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luca GiacominiGiacomini – Andre Gaspar MurtaGaspar Murta (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michal DembekDembek – Mauro De MaioDe Maio (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gabriele Maria NoceMaria Noce – Mirko MartinezMartinez (7-6⁴ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mariano KestelboimKestelboim – Gabriel PetitPetit (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo PonticoPontico – Louroi MartinezMartinez (7-6⁴ 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuichiro InuiInui – Nicolas TepmahcTepmahc (4-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateo Nicolas MartinezNicolas Martinez – Sacha ModicaModica (6-2 6-7³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateus Alves (2001)Alves (2001) – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-6⁴ 5-7 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Florent DiepDiep – Anis GhorbelGhorbel (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Rebeka MasarovaMasarova – Greetje MinnenMinnen (0-4) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lauren DavisDavis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ann LiLi (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Alycia ParksParks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Renata ZarazuaZarazua – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Sofia KeninKenin (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Magda LinetteLinette (3-2) – H2H and prediction
• Claire LiuLiu – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yue YuanYuan – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Mccartney KesslerKessler – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Mayar SherifSherif – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Belinda BencicBencic (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Katie BoulterBoulter – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anna BondarBondar (0-1) – H2H and prediction