Evan Zhu and Beibit Zhukayev will square off in the 2^nd round of the Shymkent 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 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 Evan Zhu who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Evan Zhu is the pick to win this match.
Evan Zhu -> 1.333
Beibit Zhukayev -> 3.3

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Prediction and head to head Evan Zhu vs. Beibit Zhukayev

There is no head to head record between Evan Zhu and Beibit Zhukayev since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Evan Zhu

Evan Zhu

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Rank
691

High
271

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	24-22	22-16	1-4	1-2	0-0	0-0
2023	31-32	21-21	9-7	1-3	0-1	0-0
2022	44-31	14-13	25-12	5-5	0-1	0-0
2021	13-20	9-15	4-4	0-1	0-0	0-0
2020	11-6	5-3	6-2	0-1	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 463 (career-high), the American got to the 2^nd round after defeating Roman Konovalov 6-2 6-0, Matteo Donati 7-6³ 6-2 and Antoine Bellier 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Bellier (6-3 6-4). During the match, Zhu scored 72 points vs Bellier’s 54. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Zhu blasted 7 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Evan Zhu was very efficient on serve to win 84% (31/37) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Bellier twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Zhu has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 53% of his matches (137-122). 22-8 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Zhu has a compiled53-30 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.

Evan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Naples and M15 Sunrise.

The American has an overall 28-11 win-loss record in 2022, 22-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shymkent 2 Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Shymkent 2 Challenger

Zhu's Record

Beibit Zhukayev

Beibit Zhukayev

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Rank
243

High
171

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
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
2020	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 491, Zhukayev reached the 2^nd round after beating Mukund Sasikumar 6-1 7-6¹¹.

In the 1^st round, Beibit had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-1 7-6¹¹). During the match Zhukayev scored 80 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 66. Zhukayev was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhukayev blasted 9 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Beibit Zhukayev was extremely efficient on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 53% (19/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhukayev broke Kumar Mukund 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Beibit’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Sultan.

The Kazakhstani has an overall 17-9 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Shymkent 2 Challenger

Zhukayev's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Zhu played 3 matches while Zhukayev competed in 1 match. Zhu started his run from the qualifications while Zhukayev had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Zhu has played 4 sets more than Zhukayev (6 vs 2). Therefore, Zhu played 34 games more than Zhukayev. Evan scored 69 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Beibit managed to score 31 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Zhu blasted 13 aces (4.3 per match). Zhukayev bagged 9 aces . Zhu won 78% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

The American broke his opponents 11 times with a 55% conversion rate. The American dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Beibit broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.

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Beibit
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691

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271

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Rank

243

High

171

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

24 - 22

29 - 29

22-16

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14-16

1-2

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3-5

1-4

Clay

6-4

0-0

Grass

6-4

Tennis Scores in Shymkent 2 Challenger

• Sergey FominFomin – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Evan ZhuZhu – Antoine BellierBellier (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Emilio NavaNava – Yshai OlielOliel (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Denis IstominIstomin (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-1 7-6¹¹) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Arjun KadheKadhe (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (7-5 7-6³) – See score progression
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-2 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Robin HaaseHaase – Evgenii TiurnevTiurnev (7-6³ 3-1 ret.) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Evan ZhuZhu – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sergey FominFomin – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Robin HaaseHaase (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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