Mikhail Kukushkin and Luke Saville will play each other in the qualifications of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on GRANDSTAND 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.
As per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.56
Luke Saville -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Luke Saville
There is no head to head record between Mikhail Kukushkin and Luke Saville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-17 | 14-3 | 9-6 | 7-4 | 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 |
Ranked no. 246, Kukushkin reached the qualifications after beating Tao Mu 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Mikhail had a good straight sets win against Mu (6-2 6-4). During the match, Kukushkin scored 59 points vs Mu’s 41. Kukushkin was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kukushkin scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 82% (31/38) of his 1st serve and 71% (5/7) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Mu 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Kukushkin has good record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (262-253). 15-10 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Kukushkin has an overall 126-103 match record in the last years on hard.
Mikhail’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Tyler Challenger and the Bloomfield Hills Challenger.
Kukushkin has a compiled 19-19 win-loss record in 2023, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 300, Luke got to the qualifications after defeating Sumit Nagal 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Nagal (6-3 6-2). During the match Saville scored 75 points vs Nagal’s 60. Luke was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Saville recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Luke Saville conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 8 break points. Furthermore, Saville put 66% of his first serves in, winning 69% (37/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (13/28) on the 2nd serve. Luke broke Nagal 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill,M25 Roehampton and M15 Caloundra.
Luke has a compiled 41-20 win-loss record in 2023, 27-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kukushkin | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 59-41 | 75-60 |
| Total Points | 100 | 135 |
| Winners | 31 | 37 |
| %Winners | 53% | 49% |
Both Kukushkin and Saville played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kukushkin and Saville have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kukushkin played 1 game more than Saville. The Kazakhstani scored 31 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian scored 37 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kukushkin | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 38/45 | 54/82 |
| %1st in | 84% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 37/54 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 5/7 | 13/28 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 46% |
Kukushkin struck 1 ace . Saville also fired 2 aces . Kukushkin won 82% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kukushkin | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 60% | 75% |
| Conceded | 0 | 8 |
| Saved | 0 | 8 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kukushkin broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Mikhail very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Saville broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Saville was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 8 break points.
| Kukushkin | |||
| Q1 Mu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 59-41 | 59-41 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/45 | 38/45 | |
| % 1st in | 84% | 84% | |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 31/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Saville | |||
| Q1 Nagal |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 75-60 | 75-60 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 54/82 | 54/82 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 37/54 | 37/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/28 | 13/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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