Yulia Putintseva and Taylor Townsend will face off in the 2^nd round of the Miami Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 2. 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 Yulia Putintseva who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.36
Taylor Townsend -> 3.14

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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Taylor Townsend

This will be the 2^nd time that Yulia Putintseva and Taylor Townsend square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Townsend (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Townsend won 6-1 6-1 in the final in the Indian Harbour Beach.

Yulia Putintseva

Ranked no. 24, Yulia will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Indian Wells where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Siniakova in the 2^nd round on the 7^th of March.

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

Yulia’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.

Talking about her overall career, Putintseva has an overall 459-341 record. She has a positive 223-193 record on hard.

Previously in Miami

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See her history.

Taylor Townsend

Ranked no. 90, the American got to the 2^nd round after beating Carson Branstine 6-2 6-4, Sonay Kartal 4-6 7-6(2) 7-5 and Ann Li 3-6 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round against Li, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Townsend scored 89 points vs Li’s 86. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Townsend made 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Taylor Townsend lost the serve 4 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Townsend put 59% of her first serves in, winning 57% (31/54) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Li 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

Taylor has a compiled 4-6 win-loss record in 2025, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Miami

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3^rd

round in 2017 and 2024. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Miami

• Mariano KestelboimKestelboim – Hugo PonticoPontico (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Imanol Lopez MorilloLopez Morillo – Mateus Alves (2001)Alves (2001) (6-4 6-7² 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Skander MansouriMansouri – Aaron SchmidSchmid (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aziz DougazDougaz – Yuichiro InuiInui (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateo Nicolas Martinez
  Nicolas Martinez – Gabriele Maria NoceMaria Noce (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luca GiacominiGiacomini – Jake HerseyHersey (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michal DembekDembek – Maxime HamouHamou (7-6⁴ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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