Holger Rune and Alexandre Muller will play each other in the 2nd round of the Citi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 7:00 pm on John Harris. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Holger Rune who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Holger Rune is the pick to win this match.
Holger Rune -> 1.4
Alexandre Muller -> 2.95

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Prediction and head to head Holger Rune vs. Alexandre Muller

This will be the 2nd time that Holger Rune and Alexandre Muller clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rune (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Rune won 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in the Biella 7 Challenger back in 2021.

Holger Rune

Holger Rune

22 - 14win/loss

Hard
9-5
I Hard
2-2
Clay
9-5
Grass
2-2
Rank
15
High
4
LWWLWWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 36-22 20-10 10-6 4-4 2-2 0-0
2024 45-24 21-12 11-6 10-4 3-2 0-0
2023 44-24 10-10 16-4 11-8 7-2 0-0
2022 50-27 8-9 21-11 21-4 0-3 0-0
2021 73-29 11-5 41-17 21-7 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 9, the Dane will start his run in Washington after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 4-6 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 to Jarry in the 1st round on the 30th of June.

Rune has a compiled 22-14 win-loss record in 2025, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was winning the title in Barcelona where he defeated Carlos Alcaraz in the final 7-6(6) 6-2.

Talking about his overall career, The Dane has an overall 273-144 record. He has a positive 60-47 record on hard.

Previously in Washington

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd

round in 2022. See his history.
Washington
Rune's Record

Alexandre Muller

Alexandre Muller

20 - 19win/loss

Hard
9-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
11-10
Grass
0-3
Rank
42
High
38
LWWLWLLLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-29 12-12 11-10 3-4 0-3 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. 39 (career-high), Alexandre reached the 2nd round after beating Beibit Zhukayev 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round, Alexandre had a good straight sets win against Zhukayev (6-4 6-4). During the match Muller scored 67 points vs Zhukayev’s 54. Alexandre was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Muller scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Alexandre Muller was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alexandre broke Zhukayev 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

His best result of the year was winning the title in Hong Kong where he beat Kei Nishikori in the final 2-6 6-1 6-3.

Muller has a composed 20-18 win-loss record in 2025, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Washington
Muller's Record

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