Mikhail Kukushkin and Diego Barreto Sanchez will play each other in the 1st round of the Seville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on PISTA 2. 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 3 sets.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.47
Diego Barreto Sanchez -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Diego Barreto Sanchez
There is no head to head record between Mikhail Kukushkin and Diego Barreto Sanchez since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-27 | 11-13 | 3-2 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 242, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Seville Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 7-6(0) 6-2 to Couacaud in the qualifications on the 24th of August.
Kukushkin has an overall 17-17 win-loss record in 2023, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Tyler Challenger and the Bloomfield Hills Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Kukushkin has an overall 572-440 record. He has a positive 186-146 record on clay.
Previously in the Seville Challenger
Mikhail has never competed in this tournament before.
Diego Barreto Sanchez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-31 | 8-7 | 28-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-30 | 10-10 | 24-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-28 | 8-3 | 45-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-22 | 3-7 | 20-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-21 | 1-4 | 26-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 741, the Spaniard got to the 1st round after beating Simon Beaupain 6-2 6-1 and Carlos Sanchez Jover 4-6 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications against Sanchez Jover, Barreto recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-5). During the match Barreto scored 97 points vs Sanchez Jover’s 82. The Spaniard was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Barreto blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Diego Barreto Sanchez was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (38/53) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Barreto broke Sanchez Jover 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Barreto’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Telde.
Diego has a compiled 40-18 win-loss record in 2023, 36-17 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Seville Challenger
- Hugo GastonGaston – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-4 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel RinconRincon – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-73 7-5 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-1 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-3 1-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-73 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Inigo CervantesCervantes (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Valentin RoyerRoyer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Pedro CachinCachin (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Imanol Lopez MorilloLopez Morillo – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Augusto Barreto SanchezAugusto Barreto Sanchez – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction