Alexandre Muller and Rei Sakamoto will face off in the 1st round of the Miami Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexandre Muller who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexandre Muller is the pick to win this match.
Alexandre Muller -> 1.46
Rei Sakamoto -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Alexandre Muller vs. Rei Sakamoto
There is no head to head record between Alexandre Muller and Rei Sakamoto since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Alexandre Muller
11 - 7win/loss
41
41
LWWLLLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-7 | 7-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-32 | 11-14 | 20-12 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 41 (career-high), Alexandre will start his run in Miami after he played his last match in the Cap Cana Challenger where he lost 6-4 2-6 7-6(5) to Kovacevic in the semifinal on the 15th of March.
Alexandre has a compiled 11-7 win-loss record in 2025, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in Hong Kong where he overcame Kei Nishikori in the final 2-6 6-1 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 409-278 record. He has a positive 127-80 record on hard.
Previously in Miami
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
Rei Sakamoto
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-7 | 11-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-16 | 12-11 | 6-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-11 | 1-4 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-6 | 5-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 330 (career-high), the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating Kamil Majchrzak 6-4 6-7(5) 6-2 and James Duckworth 7-5 7-6(5).
In the qualifications, Sakamoto had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (7-5 7-65). During the match Sakamoto scored 74 points vs Duckworth’s 62. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 44 winners.
About the serving games, Sakamoto overpowered his opponent with 20 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rei Sakamoto was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (44/50) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sakamoto broke Duckworth once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sakamoto started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Rei’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger.
Rei has a composed 13-7 win-loss record in 2025, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Adam WaltonWalton (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexander BlockxBlockx – Terence AtmaneAtmane (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Tristan BoyerBoyer (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Hugo GastonGaston (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Rei SakamotoSakamoto – James DuckworthDuckworth (7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Darwin BlanchBlanch (6-4 1-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (7-62 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-4 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Quentin HalysHalys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Nuno BorgesBorges (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (1-2) – H2H and prediction
