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

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

Renta Tokuda

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).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kukushkin	Tokuda
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	19
Pts	62-36	86-74
Total Points	98	160
Winners	16	29
%Winners	26%	34%

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

Serve	Kukushkin	Tokuda
Aces	1	2
Avg per match	1	2
1st in	22/43	46/81
%1st in	51%	57%
1st pts	16/22	29/46
%1st pts	73%	63%
2nd pts	15/21	24/35
%2nd pts	71%	69%

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

Breaks	Kukushkin	Tokuda
Won	5	2
Converted	5/9	2/12
% Converted	56%	17%
Conceded	0	9
Saved	0	9
% Saved	0%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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.

Kukushkin
	R1 Tyurnev	Total
Score	6-2 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	62-36	62-36
Total points	98	98
Winners	16	16
%Winners	26%	26%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	22/43	22/43
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	16/22	16/22
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	15/21	15/21
% 2nd pts	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Tokuda
	R1 Singh	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	86-74	86-74
Total points	160	160
Winners	29	29
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	46/81	46/81
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	29/46	29/46
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	24/35	24/35
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/12	2/12
Converted %	17%	17%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	9/9	9
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	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