Daily Tennis Tips – Monday 9th June

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Monday June 9, 2025!

Sixth seed Brandon Nakashima kicks off his Stuttgart Open campaign against rising Brit Jacob Fearnley.

World No.32 Nakashima made the last 16 of ATP 1000 events at Indian Wells, Miami and Madrid so far this season, but his clay swing tapered significantly and he was eliminated by Mariano Navone in the first round at Roland Garros.

Fearnley has climbed to 55th and is coming off a third-round appearance at Roland Garros, beating former champ Stan Wawrinka and 22nd seed Ugo Humbert.

The 23-year-old won the Nottingham Open (Challenger level) on grass last year, while he took a set off Novak Djokovic as a Wimbledon wildcard on grand slam debut.

Fearnley’s formline is hard to resist in this pick ’em.

Aiming to bounce back from a disappointing clay swing, Aussie Jordan Thompson gets the grass season underway at Den Bosch against Aleksandar Kovacevic.

Thompson is 2-1 against Kovacevic, chalking up wins at the grass-court Newport Open in 2023 and last year’s Houston Open either side of the American’s victory at the 2024 Acapulco Open.

World No.40 Thompson went down to Jiri Lehecka in straight sets in the first round of the French Open, leaving him with a 7-6 record on the tour in 2025.

The 30-year-old is a two-time finalist at this tournament, in 2019 in 2023, while he was a doubles finalist at Wimbledon last year.

World No.76 Kovacevic is just 6-8 at our level this year and is winless sinc reaching the quarter-finals in Houston in early-April. He lost to Federico Gomez in four sets at the French Open.

The 26-year-old made his first ATP final at the Open Occitanie in February – losing to Felix Auger-Aliassime – but has a thin grass-court CV.

Thompson looks a solid option to get back on track here.

Two-time Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova and world No.23 Beatriz Haddad Maia square off in arguably the most intriguing match-up of the Queen’s Club Championships’ opening round.

The pair have split their two meetings to date, which were both on the 2022 grass swing. Haddad Maia won at the Birmingham Classic, but Kvitova turned the tables a week later at the Eastbourne International.

The 35-year-old Kvitova returned from a maternity break three months ago and has a 1-5 record so far, losing from a set up to Viktorija Golubic in the first round of the French Open. The Czech great boasts six grass-court titles overall, most recently at the 2023 German Open.

Haddad Maia was upset by Hailey Baptiste first up at the French Open, another disappointing result in a patchy season – and a drop-off after reaching the semi-finals in Strasbourg.

The Brazilian reached the last 16 at Wimbledon in 2023 and snared two titles on grass in 2022, in Nottingham and Birmingham.

Kvitova’s lack of court time remains a concern here and Haddad Maia is the value option as only a slight favourite.

Fresh off her first grand slam foray under the Australian flag, Daria Kasatkina kicks off her grass season against Brit Sonay Kartal.

Kasatkina impressed at the French Open, eliminating 10th seed Paula Badosa before going down to Mirra Andreeva in the fourth round.

World No.16 Kasatkina was a Wimbledon quarter-finalist back in 2018 and is the defending Eastbourne International champion.

Kartal cracked the top 50 for the first time this week, though she hasn’t won more than one match at a tournament since her breakout Round of 16 run at Indian Wells, which including an upset of Beatriz Haddad Maia.

The 23-year-old trounced Erika Andreeva first up at the French Open before going down convincingly to Marie Bouzkova. She won her first WTA title at the Jasmin Open last September.

Kasatkina clearly has the higher ceiling and a strong grass-court record – expect her to get the job done in straight sets.