Nicolas Moreno De Alboran and Beibit Zhukayev will play each other in the 2nd round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am 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 Nicolas Moreno De Alboran who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Moreno De Alboran is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran -> 1.33
Beibit Zhukayev -> 3.125
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Beibit Zhukayev
There is no head to head record between Nicolas Moreno De Alboran and Beibit Zhukayev since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-15 | 10-8 | 11-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-30 | 25-16 | 10-8 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 8-2 | 28-17 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-20 | 22-11 | 22-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-12 | 14-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 187, Moreno De Alboran reached the 2nd round after defeating Marek Gengel 2-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Gengel, Nicolas recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-3 6-4). During the match, Moreno De Alboran scored 91 points vs Gengel’s 83. Moreno De Alboran was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Moreno De Alboran bagged 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicolas Moreno De Alboran lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Moreno De Alboran put 65% of his first serves in, winning 78% (40/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Nicolas broke Gengel 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Moreno De Alboran has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 66% of his matches (174-91). 8-6 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Moreno De Alboran has a compiled91-45 record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Spaniard’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Chennai Challenger.
Nicolas has a composed 21-15 win-loss record in 2023, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Beibit Zhukayev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 6-8 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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. 325, Zhukayev got to the 2nd round after defeating Colin Markes 6-0 6-3 and Peter Gojowczyk 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Zhukayev had a good straight sets win against Gojowczyk (6-2 6-2). During the match Zhukayev scored 57 points vs Gojowczyk’s 34. Zhukayev was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhukayev struck 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Beibit Zhukayev was extremely effective on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Beibit broke Gojowczyk 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Beibit’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Trimbach.
Beibit has a composed 12-15 win-loss record in 2023, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Moreno De Alboran | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 31 |
| Pts | 91-83 | 115-67 |
| Total Points | 174 | 182 |
| Winners | 40 | 41 |
| %Winners | 44% | 36% |
Moreno De Alboran played 1 match while Zhukayev competed in 2 matches. Zhukayev started his run from the qualifications while Moreno De Alboran had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Nicolas Moreno De Alboran lost 1 set while Beibit Zhukayev hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Moreno De Alboran has played 1 set(s) less than Zhukayev (3 vs 4). Therefore, Moreno De Alboran played 4 games less than Zhukayev. Nicolas scored 40 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Beibit blasted 41 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Moreno De Alboran | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 18 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 9 |
| 1st in | 51/78 | 46/81 |
| %1st in | 65% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 41/46 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 22/35 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 63% |
Moreno De Alboran scored 9 aces . Zhukayev blasted 18 aces (9 per match). Moreno De Alboran won 78% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 89% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Moreno De Alboran | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 9 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 9/13 |
| % Converted | 38% | 69% |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Moreno De Alboran broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Spaniard surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Kazakhstani broke his opponents 9 times with a 69% conversion rate. Zhukayev conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Moreno De Alboran | |||
| R1 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 91-83 | 91-83 | |
| Total points | 174 | 174 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 51/78 | 51/78 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 40/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 12/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Zhukayev | ||||
| Q3 Markes |
R1 Gojowczyk |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 16 | 31 | |
| pts | 58-33 | 57-34 | 115-67 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | 182 | |
| Winners | 20 | 21 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 37% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 10 | 18 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 23/42 | 23/39 | 46/81 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 59% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 20/23 | 21/23 | 41/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 91% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 9/16 | 22/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 56% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/7 | 9/13 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 71% | 69% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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