Mikhail Kukushkin and Thomas Fabbiano will play each other in the qualifications of the Phoenix Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. 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 Mikhail Kukushkin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.53
Thomas Fabbiano -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Thomas Fabbiano
This will be the 2nd time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Thomas Fabbiano fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kukushkin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Kukushkin won 6-7(5) 6-1 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Manerbio back in 2008.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22-18 | 3-5 | 1-3 | 18-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 24-27 | 11-13 | 3-2 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-32 | 24-10 | 10-9 | 12-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-24 | 17-11 | 3-5 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 18-11 | 0-2 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 154, Mikhail reached the qualifications after beating Go Soeda 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Soeda (6-2 6-0). During the match, Kukushkin scored 55 points vs Soeda’s 27. The Kazakhstani was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kukushkin scored 7 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin was pretty effective on serve to win 86% (18/21) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mikhail broke Soeda 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Kukushkin has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (268-235). 8-3 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kukushkin has an aggregate 124-91 record in the last years on hard.
Kukushkin has a composed 13-8 win-loss record in 2022, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Thomas Fabbiano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 22-22 | 7-6 | 8-9 | 5-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-33 | 8-12 | 5-9 | 4-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-5 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 21-31 | 7-10 | 4-10 | 2-6 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 34-27 | 20-15 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 174, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating John-Patrick Smith 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Fabbiano had a good straight sets win against Smith (6-1 6-4). During the match Fabbiano scored 61 points vs Smith’s 43. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Fabbiano scored 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Thomas Fabbiano was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Smith 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Thomas’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger.
Fabbiano has a compiled 12-7 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kukushkin | Fabbiano |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 17 |
| Pts | 55-27 | 61-43 |
| Total Points | 82 | 104 |
| Winners | 18 | 25 |
| %Winners | 33% | 41% |
Both Kukushkin and Fabbiano played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kukushkin and Fabbiano have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kukushkin played 3 games less than Fabbiano. The Kazakhstani scored 18 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Fabbiano recorded 25 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kukushkin | Fabbiano |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 21/37 | 33/53 |
| %1st in | 57% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 18/21 | 25/33 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 12/20 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 60% |
Kukushkin scored 7 aces . Fabbiano recorded 3 aces . Kukushkin won 86% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Fabbiano won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kukushkin | Fabbiano |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 63% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Kukushkin broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Kukushkin quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Fabbiano broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Thomas conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kukushkin | |||
| Q1 Soeda |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 55-27 | 55-27 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 21/37 | 21/37 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 18/21 | 18/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Fabbiano | |||
| Q1 Smith |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-43 | 61-43 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/53 | 33/53 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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