Daniel Cukierman and Beibit Zhukayev will face off in the 2^nd round of the Nur-Sultan Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:30 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniel Cukierman who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Daniel Cukierman is the pick to win this match.
Daniel Cukierman -> 1.71
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.14

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Prediction and head to head Daniel Cukierman vs. Beibit Zhukayev

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

Daniel Cukierman

Ranked no. 437, Daniel got to the 2^nd round after beating Jay Clarke 6-1 5-3 ret..

In the 1^st round, The Israeli had a good straight sets win against Clarke (6-1 5-3 ret.). During the match, Cukierman scored 59 points vs Clarke’s 43. The Israeli was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Cukierman wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Daniel Cukierman conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Cukierman put 57% of his first serves in, winning 69% (24/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the 2nd serve. The Israeli was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Clarke 3 times.

Cukierman has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 64% of his matches (142-79). 23-6 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cukierman has an aggregate106-56 record in the last 7 years on hard.

Cukierman’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Akko and M25 Netanya.

Daniel has an aggregate 30-14 win-loss record in 2022, 23-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the The Nur-Sultan Challenger

Cukierman has never competed in this tournament before.

Beibit Zhukayev

Ranked no. 507, Zhukayev got to the 2^nd round after beating Shintaro Imai 7-6³ 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Beibit had a good straight sets win against Imai (7-6³ 6-1). During the match Zhukayev scored 76 points vs Imai’s 62. Beibit was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Zhukayev struck 12 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Beibit Zhukayev was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani broke Imai 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

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

Zhukayev has a composed 25-15 win-loss record in 2022, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cukierman	Zhukayev
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	15	20
Pts	59-43	76-62
Total Points	102	138
Winners	24	30
%Winners	41%	39%

Both Cukierman and Zhukayev played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Cukierman has played 1 set more than Zhukayev (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Cukierman played 5 games less than Zhukayev. Daniel scored 24 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Zhukayev made 30 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cukierman	Zhukayev
Aces	0	12
Avg per match	0	12
1st in	35/61	41/77
%1st in	57%	53%
1st pts	24/35	30/41
%1st pts	69%	73%
2nd pts	15/26	20/36
%2nd pts	58%	56%

Cukierman didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zhukayev blasted 12 aces . Cukierman won 69% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cukierman	Zhukayev
Won	3	4
Converted	3/3	4/6
% Converted	100%	67%
Conceded	5	10
Saved	5	9
% Saved	100%	90%
Times Broken	0	1

The Israeli broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Cukierman pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. Beibit broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Zhukayev conceded his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded.

Cukierman
	R1 Clarke	Total
Score	6-1 5-3 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	59-43	59-43
Total points	102	102
Winners	24	24
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	35/61	35/61
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	24/35	24/35
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	15/26	15/26
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/3	3/3
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	5/5	5
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Zhukayev
	R1 Imai	Total
Score	7-63 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	76-62	76-62
Total points	138	138
Winners	30	30
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	41/77	41/77
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	30/41	30/41
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	20/36	20/36
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	10	10
Saved	9/10	9
Saved %	90%	90%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Sultan Challenger

• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Dominik PalanPalan (6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-1 5-3 ret.) – See score progression
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Shintaro ImaiImai (7-6³ 6-1) – See score progression
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Timofey SkatovSkatov (7-6⁴ 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• David PoljakPoljak – Akira SantillanSantillan (3-6 7-6⁷ 6-4) – See score progression
• Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Ivan LiutarevichLiutarevich (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Lucas CatarinaCatarina (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Benjamin LockLock – Sergey FominFomin (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Denis IstominIstomin – Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Jose StathamStatham (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Yanki ErelErel – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Alafia AyeniAyeni – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-3 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Grigoriy LomakinLomakin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Denis IstominIstomin (4-6) – H2H and prediction
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Benjamin LockLock – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• David PoljakPoljak – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Yanki ErelErel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Daniel CukiermanCukierman (0-0) – H2H and prediction