Jerome Kym and Beibit Zhukayev will square off in the 1st round of the Zagreb Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jerome Kym who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jerome Kym is the pick to win this match.
Jerome Kym -> 1.36
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Jerome Kym vs. Beibit Zhukayev
There is no head to head record between Jerome Kym and Beibit Zhukayev since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jerome Kym
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-20 | 6-3 | 17-13 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 59-20 | 14-4 | 37-11 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-9 | 0-0 | 18-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5-0 |
| 2022 | 41-22 | 17-5 | 12-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
| 2021 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 127 (career-high), Jerome will start his run in the Zagreb Challenger after he played his last match in Rome where he lost 4-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to Faria in the qualifications on the 5th of May.
Kym has an aggregate 5-8 win-loss record in 2025, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Jerome’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Mauthausen Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Jerome has an overall 136-69 record. He has a positive 74-38 record on clay.
Previously in the Zagreb Challenger
The Swiss has never competed in this tournament before.
Beibit Zhukayev
12 - 13win/loss
280
171
LWLWWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-31 | 11-12 | 0-5 | 13-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-29 | 14-16 | 6-4 | 4-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-30 | 19-16 | 1-3 | 11-8 | 2-2 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 43-30 | 33-21 | 1-2 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 13-10 | 4-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 220, Zhukayev will start his run in the Zagreb Challenger after he played his last match in the Prague Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-5 7-5 to Chazal in the 1st round on the 6th of May.
Zhukayev has a compiled 12-13 win-loss record in 2025, 0-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Morelia Challenger.
In terms of his career, Beibit has an overall 180-165 record. He has a negative 27-42 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
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- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (7-63 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dmitry PopkoDmitry – Matej DodigMatej (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
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- Norbert GombosGombos – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (4-2) – H2H and prediction
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- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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