Polina Kudermetova and Marina Stakusic will play each other in the 1st round of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. 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 Polina Kudermetova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Polina Kudermetova is the pick to win this match.
Polina Kudermetova -> 1.5
Marina Stakusic -> 2.59

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Prediction and head to head Polina Kudermetova vs. Marina Stakusic

This will be the 2nd time that Polina Kudermetova and Marina Stakusic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kudermetova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Kudermetova won 6-1 2-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in the W25 Monastir back in 2022.

Polina Kudermetova

Polina Kudermetova

16 - 21win/loss

Hard
15-13
I Hard
0-1
Clay
1-5
Grass
0-2
Rank
90
High
54
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 19-26 18-18 1-5 0-1 0-2 0-0
2024 53-35 28-13 21-14 4-6 0-1 0-1
2023 33-26 5-5 13-13 10-5 3-2 2-1
2022 54-19 30-14 8-3 16-2 0-0 0-0
2021 21-13 3-2 9-7 9-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 65, the Russian will start her run in Guadalajara after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 7-6(4) 6-2 to Sabalenka in the 2nd round on the 27th of August.

Kudermetova has an aggregate 16-20 win-loss record in 2025, 15-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Polina’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Brisbane.

Talking about her overall career, Polina has an overall 196-121 record. She has a positive 88-49 record on hard.

Previously in Guadalajara

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See her history.

Guadalajara
Kudermetova's Record

Marina Stakusic

Marina Stakusic

13 - 17win/loss

Hard
6-10
I Hard
4-2
Clay
3-5
Rank
131
High
114
LWWWWWWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-21 22-14 3-5 4-2 0-0 0-0
2024 30-24 15-12 9-7 0-1 6-4 0-0
2023 26-5 17-3 0-0 9-2 0-0 0-0
2022 28-19 12-8 11-7 5-4 0-0 0-0
2021 2-6 0-2 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 155, Marina reached the 1st round after beating Amandine Hesse 7-5 7-5 and Iryna Shymanovich 4-6 6-3 7-6(4).

In the qualifications against Shymanovich, Stakusic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 7-64).During the match Stakusic scored less points (1) than Shymanovich. In fact, the world no. 65 won 117 points vs Shymanovich’s. That means that Stakusic was more focused during the important points. Stakusic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about serving, Stakusic fired 4 aces and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 11 double faults. Marina Stakusic lost the serve 5 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Stakusic put 40% of her first serves in, winning 74% (35/47) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (31/71) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Shymanovich 5 times after converting 29% of her break points (5/17).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Stakusic started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points she played.

The Canadian has an overall 12-17 win-loss record in 2025, 5-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Guadalajara

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

Guadalajara
Stakusic's Record

Tennis Scores in Guadalajara

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