Mikhail Kukushkin and Renta Tokuda will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Astana Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.085
Renta Tokuda -> 6.6

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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Renta Tokuda

There is no head to head record between Mikhail Kukushkin and Renta Tokuda since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Mikhail Kukushkin

Mikhail Kukushkin

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Rank
112

High
39

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	52-32	24-10	10-9	12-9	6-4	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

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Ranked no. 229, Mikhail reached the 2^nd round after defeating Evgenii Tiurnev 6-2 6-0.

In the 1^st round, Kukushkin had a good straight sets win against Tyurnev (6-2 6-0). During the match, Kukushkin scored 62 points vs Tyurnev’s 36. Kukushkin was quite aggressive to blast 16 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kukushkin scored just 1 ace and he committed only 1 double fault. Mikhail Kukushkin was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (16/22) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Tyurnev 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Kukushkin has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (258-248). 12-7 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kukushkin has a compiled 123-100 match record in the last years on hard.

Mikhail’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Tyler Challenger and the Bloomfield Hills Challenger.

The Kazakhstani has an overall 15-14 win-loss record in 2023, 12-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Astana Challenger

Astana Challenger

Kukushkin's Record

Renta Tokuda

Renta Tokuda

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Rank
767

High
289

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	8-8	6-6	0-0	2-2	0-0	0-0
2023	24-16	24-15	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-0
2022	7-10	6-9	0-0	1-1	0-0	0-0
2021	34-13	30-9	2-2	2-2	0-0	0-0
2020	0-3	0-1	0-2	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 639, Renta got to the 2^nd round after defeating Digvijaypratap Singh 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Singh (6-3 6-4). During the match Tokuda scored 86 points vs Singh’s 74. Tokuda was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Tokuda blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Renta Tokuda conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 9 break points. Furthermore, Tokuda put 57% of his first serves in, winning 63% (29/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (24/35) on the 2nd serve. Tokuda broke Singh twice after converting 17% of his break points (2/12).

The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Monastir,M25 Tsukuba,M25 Kashiwa and M25 Changwon.

Renta has an overall 19-12 win-loss record in 2023, 19-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Astana Challenger

Tokuda's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Kukushkin and Tokuda played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kukushkin and Tokuda have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kukushkin played 5 games less than Tokuda. Kukushkin scored 16 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, Tokuda struck 29 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Kukushkin struck 1 ace . Tokuda also fired 2 aces . Kukushkin won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Tokuda won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Mikhail very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Renta broke his opponent twice with a 17% conversion rate. Renta was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 9 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Mikhail
Kukushkin

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Renta
Tokuda

Rank

112

High

39

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Rank

767

High

289

Win Loss

Kukushkin

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2024 2023 2022

52 - 32

8 - 8

24-10

Hard

6-6

12-9

I Hard

2-2

10-9

Clay

0-0

6-4

Grass

0-0

Tennis Scores in Astana Challenger

• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Ajeet RaiRai (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Koray KirciKirci (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Yanki ErelErel – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Jose StathamStatham – Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Karan SinghSingh (7-6² 6-2) – See score progression
• Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Sidharth RawatRawat (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Evgeny PhilippovPhilippov – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Orel KimhiKimhi – Robin BertrandBertrand (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (3-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Leo BorgBorg (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Benjamin LockLock – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Evgenii TiurnevTiurnev (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Timur MaulenovMaulenov (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Renta TokudaTokuda – Digvijaypratap SinghSingh (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Koray KirciKirci (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (3-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Sidharth RawatRawat (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Orel KimhiKimhi – Robin BertrandBertrand (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Ajeet RaiRai (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Yanki ErelErel – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (6-4 6-7(5) 6-1) – See score progression
• Jose StathamStatham – Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Islam OrynbasarOrynbasar – S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Benjamin LockLock – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (7-5 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yanki ErelErel – Jose StathamStatham (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Kukushkin

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Tokuda