Sanhui Shin and Erik Arutiunian will face off in the 1^st round of the Astana Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Erik Arutiunian who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Erik Arutiunian is the pick to win this match.
Erik Arutiunian -> 1.57
Sanhui Shin -> 2.22

 

 

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Prediction and head to head Sanhui Shin vs. Erik Arutiunian

There is no head to head record between Sanhui Shin and Erik Arutiunian since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Sanhui Shin

Ranked no. 491, Sanhui will start his run in the Astana Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Bali where he lost 6-7(6) 6-0 7-5 to Saitoh in the quarter on the 31^st of July.

Sanhui has an overall 23-16 win-loss record in 2026, 23-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Sanhui’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Gimcheon.

Talking about his overall career, The Korean has an overall 206-119 record. He has a positive 160-97 record on hard.

Previously in the Astana Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2025. See his history.

Erik Arutiunian

Ranked no. 621, Arutiunian reached the 1^st round after beating Egor Pleshivtsev 6-3 6-3 and Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Arutiunian had a good straight sets win against Wei Kang Leong (6-4 6-4). During the match Arutiunian scored 68 points vs Wei Kang Leong’s 57. Arutiunian was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Arutiunian scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Erik Arutiunian was very efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Belarussian broke Wei Kang Leong 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Arutiunian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points he played.

ATP Astana Challenger - Erik Arutiunian's projected path

The Belarussian has a composed 5-4 win-loss record in 2026, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Astana Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2025. See his history.

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