Mikhail Kukushkin and Michael Zheng will square off in the 1st round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 13. 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 -> 1.56
Michael Zheng -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Michael Zheng
There is no head to head record between Mikhail Kukushkin and Michael Zheng since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-12 | 14-3 | 6-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2021 | 12-24 | 8-9 | 0-6 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-12 | 3-5 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 296, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Little Rock Challenger after he played his last match in the Francavilla Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-1 to Giustino in the 1st round on the 8th of May.
Kukushkin has a compiled 4-10 win-loss record in 2023, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kukushkin has an overall 559-433 record. He has a positive 208-149 record on hard.
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Zheng
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 13-11 | 13-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-6 | 2-1 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 893, Michael reached the 1st round after defeating Marius Copil 6-3 6-4 and Duarte Vale 6-4 6-73 6-3.
In the qualifications, Zheng defeated Vale (6-4 6-73 6-3). During the match Zheng scored 113 points vs Vale’s 102. Zheng was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Zheng fired 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Michael Zheng lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zheng put 49% of his first serves in, winning 83% (40/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (25/50) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Vale 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zheng started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The American has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Tung-Lin WuWu – Bruno KuzuharaKuzuhara (6-3 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel MasurMasur – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Daniel MasurMasur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Skander MansouriMansouri – Aziz DougazDougaz (3-5) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nathan PonwithPonwith – Christian LangmoLangmo (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
