Thanasi Kokkinakis and Beibit Zhukayev will play each other in the 2nd round of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.143
Beibit Zhukayev -> 5.05
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Beibit Zhukayev
There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Beibit Zhukayev since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-14 | 8-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-26 | 31-18 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-19 | 19-12 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-21 | 15-11 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 69 (career-high), Thanasi reached the 2nd round after defeating Colin Sinclair 6-2 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, Kokkinakis defeated Sinclair (6-2 3-6 6-3). During the match, Kokkinakis scored 80 points vs Sinclair’s 66. Kokkinakis was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kokkinakis managed to score 17 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Thanasi Kokkinakis was very efficient on serve to win 87% (40/46) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kokkinakis broke Sinclair 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Kokkinakis has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (222-137). 27-15 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kokkinakis has an aggregate149-81 record in the last 9 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Manama Challenger where he beat Abedallah Shelbayh in the final 6-1 6-4.
The Australian has a compiled 36-23 win-loss record in 2023, 27-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger
Kokkinakis has never competed in this tournament before.
Beibit Zhukayev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 6-8 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-30 | 19-16 | 1-3 | 11-8 | 2-2 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 43-30 | 33-21 | 1-2 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 13-10 | 4-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 302, will start his run in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger where he defeated 6-4 6-4 to Li in the 1st round on the 11th of October.
Zhukayev has an overall 27-26 win-loss record in 2023, 16-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Beibit’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Trimbach and the Little Rock Challenger.
In terms of his career, Beibit has an overall 128-119 record. He has a positive 86-62 record on hard.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kokkinakis | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 20 |
| Pts | 80-66 | 64-54 |
| Total Points | 146 | 118 |
| Winners | 40 | 34 |
| %Winners | 50% | 53% |
Both Kokkinakis and Zhukayev played 1 match. At the moment, Thanasi Kokkinakis surrendered 1 set while Beibit Zhukayev hasn’t dropped a set so far. Kokkinakis has played 1 set more than Zhukayev (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kokkinakis played 6 games more than Zhukayev. Thanasi scored 40 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani managed to score 34 winners (53%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kokkinakis | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 17 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 17 | 19 |
| 1st in | 46/71 | 42/61 |
| %1st in | 65% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 40/46 | 34/42 |
| %1st pts | 87% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 9/19 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 47% |
Kokkinakis scored 17 aces . Zhukayev struck 19 aces . Kokkinakis won 87% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kokkinakis | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 2/4 |
| % Converted | 38% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Kokkinakis dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Zhukayev broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Zhukayev was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Kokkinakis | |||
| R1 Sinclair |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 80-66 | 80-66 | |
| Total points | 146 | 146 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 17 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 46/71 | 46/71 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 40/46 | 40/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 13/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Zhukayev | |||
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | |||
| Tot Set | 0 | ||
| Tot Games | 0 | ||
| pts | 0-0 | ||
| Total points | 0 | ||
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | ||
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st in | 0% | ||
| 1st pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st pts | 0% | ||
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 0% | ||
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | 0/0 | ||
| Converted % | 0% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0 | ||
| Saved % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
Head 2 Head
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LWWLLWWLWL Tennis Scores in Shenzhen 1 Challenger
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Colin SinclairSinclair (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Li TuTu (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Dominik PalanPalan (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Yan BaiBai (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rigele TeTe (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Sheng TangTang (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Luke SavilleSaville (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Qian SunSun (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Steven DiezDiez (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-0 7-62) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – James McCabeMcCabe (3-6 6-3 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Colin SinclairSinclair (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Li TuTu (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rigele TeTe (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Qian SunSun (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-4 7-6(6)) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Dominik PalanPalan (6-4 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Yan BaiBai (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Jason JungJung (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Pedro CachinCachin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
