Karolina Muchova and Yuliia Starodubtseva will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 5. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Muchova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Muchova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Muchova -> 1.164
Yuliia Starodubtseva -> 5.15
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Muchova vs. Yuliia Starodubtseva
There is no head to head record between Karolina Muchova and Yuliia Starodubtseva since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Karolina Muchova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-7 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-7 | 15-4 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-13 | 28-9 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-12 | 3-2 | 3-3 | 5-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-9 | 10-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 12, Karolina will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Miami where she lost 6-2 3-6 6-2 to Svitolina in the 3rd round on the 23rd of March.
Muchova has a composed 12-7 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
The Czech’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Australia, Linz and Dubai.
Talking about her overall career, The Czech has an overall 238-115 record. She has a positive 66-36 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See her history.
Yuliia Starodubtseva
7 - 12win/loss
80
79
LLWWWWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-13 | 3-8 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-26 | 26-15 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-17 | 20-5 | 19-10 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 99, the Ukrainian got to the 2nd round after defeating Chloe Paquet 2-6 6-3 6-0, Elsa Jacquemot 7-6(5) 2-6 7-5 and Linda Fruhvirtova 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Fruhvirtova (6-2 6-2). During the match Starodubtseva scored 63 points vs Fruhvirtova’s 46. Starodubtseva was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Starodubtseva wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Yuliia Starodubtseva lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Starodubtseva put 72% of her first serves in, winning 56% (20/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. Starodubtseva broke Fruhvirtova 7 times after converting 58% of her break points (7/12).
Yuliia has a compiled 6-12 win-loss record in 2025, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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