Marin CilicvsMikhail Kukushkin

September 5, 2015H Hard

Match Result

Final score

#46Marin Cilic[9]

6⁵7⁷66³6

#302Mikhail Kukushkin

7⁷6¹37⁷1

Archetype Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Cilic

🤖 Servebot

High ace rateDominant serviceWeaker returnBig first serve

Kukushkin

💥 Big Hitter

Power groundstrokesHigh winner countAggressive shotsShort rallies

Matchup analysis

🤖 Servebot vs 💥 Big Hitter is historically tight (51% vs 49%, 8,831 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and H2H matter most when Marin Cilic plays Mikhail Kukushkin.

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Cilic	Kukushkin
W-L	4–6	3–6
Avg odds	1.95	2.12
ROI %	-27.5%	-47.4%
Units P/L	-2.75u	-4.27u

Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.

Head-to-Head

Prior meetings and scores · 1 career meeting

Cilic

Kukushkin

Sep 5, 2015

US Open

H Hard · Round of 32

6⁵7⁷

7⁷6¹

6³7⁷

Cilic

Full head-to-head & rivalry stats

Common Opponents

Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months

Kukushkin has a higher win rate against shared opponents (100% vs Cilic's 0%).

Opponent	Cilic	Kukushkin
Martin Landaluce	L 46 46	W 62 61

Mechanics

Serve and return comparison · Last 90 days

Stat	Cilic	Kukushkin
Serve
1st Serve In %	60.9%	57%
1st Serve Pts Won %	71.5%	72.3%
2nd Serve Pts Won %	50.8%	51.5%
Aces / Match	6	4.2
Double Faults / Match	2.5	1.6
Break Points Saved %	56.6%	48%
Return
1st Return Pts Won %	28.5%	30.5%
2nd Return Pts Won %	46.6%	50.8%
BP Converted %	40%	39.7%
Rally
Winners / Match	18.4	12.5
Unforced Errors / Match	27.6	18.5
Net Pts Won %	76.6%	64.3%
Total Pts Won %	49.6%	50.3%
Surface (Hard)
Hard Win %	0%	50%