Denis Yevseyev and Mukund Sasikumar will play each other in the 1st round of the Shymkent 1 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Yevseyev who should win in 3 sets.
Denis Yevseyev -> 1.5
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Denis Yevseyev vs. Mukund Sasikumar
This will be the 3rd time that Denis Yevseyev and Mukund Sasikumar play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Yevseyev and Kumar Mukund (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kumar Mukund won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Forli 1 Challenger back in January 2022.
Denis Yevseyev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-41 | 19-14 | 9-16 | 7-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-37 | 14-14 | 12-13 | 7-8 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-36 | 23-16 | 16-14 | 11-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 39-31 | 11-9 | 12-12 | 14-9 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 36-30 | 4-5 | 22-15 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 337, Yevseyev will start his run in the Shymkent 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Prague 2 Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-2 6-4 to Rosol in the qualifications on the 2nd of May.
Denis has a compiled 17-9 win-loss record in 2022, 4-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Yevseyev’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Vilnius.
Talking about his overall career, Yevseyev has an overall 337-277 record. He has a positive 112-92 record on clay.
Previously in the Shymkent 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-25 | 29-19 | 3-1 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-33 | 39-32 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 416, Kumar Mukund reached the 1st round after beating Bekzhan Yerezhep 6-1 6-0 and Ivan Gakhov 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Sasi had a good straight sets win against Gakhov (7-5 6-3). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 71 points vs Gakhov’s 53. The Indian was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Kumar Mukund struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Indian broke Gakhov 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kumar Mukund started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 63% of the points he played.
The Indian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger.
Sasi has an aggregate 14-11 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Shymkent 1 Challenger
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Yshai OlielOliel (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio NavaNava – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Matteo DonatiDonati (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy – Alexandar LazarovLazarov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Grigoriy LomakinLomakin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (0-0) – H2H and prediction