Daniel Evans and Mikhail Kukushkin will face off in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 5:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. 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 Daniel Evans who should win in 2 sets.
Daniel Evans -> 1.25
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 3.95
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Prediction and head to head Daniel Evans vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
There is no head to head record between Daniel Evans and Mikhail Kukushkin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Daniel Evans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-11 | 3-7 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-27 | 11-15 | 5-7 | 2-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-24 | 12-11 | 6-6 | 3-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 11-6 | 0-3 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 33, Daniel will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-4 6-7(2) 6-3 to Sinner in the 1st round on the 29th of September.
Daniel has a compiled 18-24 win-loss record in 2023, 10-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title in Washington where he beat Tallon Griekspoor in the final 7-5 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Evans has an overall 557-352 record. He has a positive 243-139 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2019. See his history.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-12 | 14-3 | 6-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 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. 245, the Kazakhstani reached the 2nd round after defeating Tao Mu 6-2 6-4, Luke Saville 6-3 6-3 and Alexandre Muller 6-76 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round against Muller, Mikhail recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-76 6-3 6-2). During the match Kukushkin scored 108 points vs Muller’s 94. The Kazakhstani was exceptionally aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Talking about serving, Kukushkin couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 72% of his first serves in, winning 64% (50/78) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (21/30) on the 2nd serve. The Kazakhstani was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Muller 4 times.
Kukushkin’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Tyler Challenger and the Bloomfield Hills Challenger.
Mikhail has an overall 21-19 win-loss record in 2023, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Holger RuneRune (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Casper RuudRuud – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-4 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Daniel EvansEvans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Christopher EubanksEubanks (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – H2H and prediction