Mukund Sasikumar and Beibit Zhukayev will play each other in the 1st round of the Shymkent 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mukund Sasikumar who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mukund Sasikumar is the pick to win this match.
Mukund Sasikumar -> 1.53
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Mukund Sasikumar vs. Beibit Zhukayev
This will be the 2nd time that Mukund Sasikumar and Beibit Zhukayev play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kumar Mukund (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kumar Mukund won 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in the Shymkent Challenger back in 2018.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 18-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 418, Sasi reached the 1st round after defeating Vladyslav Manafov 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Manafov (6-3 6-1). During the match, Kumar Mukund scored 56 points vs Manafov’s 38. Kumar Mukund was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kumar Mukund recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Mukund Sasikumar was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kumar Mukund broke Manafov 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Kumar Mukund has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 54% of his matches (269-230). 4-3 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Kumar Mukund has an overall53-56 record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Indian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger.
The Indian has a composed 15-12 win-loss record in 2022, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shymkent 2 Challenger
Beibit Zhukayev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 6-8 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 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 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 491, Beibit will start his run in the Shymkent 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Shymkent 1 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Durasovic in the 1st round on the 9th of May.
Beibit has a composed 16-9 win-loss record in 2022, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Beibit’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Sultan.
In terms of his career, Zhukayev has an overall 74-72 record. He has a negative 19-31 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWWLLWW Tennis Scores in Shymkent 2 Challenger
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- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Robin HaaseHaase – Evgenii TiurnevTiurnev (7-63 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-2 0-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Denis IstominIstomin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arjun KadheKadhe – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Evan ZhuZhu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sergey FominFomin – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Robin HaaseHaase (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Yshai OlielOliel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
