Aleksandar Kovacevic and Beibit Zhukayev will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Shenzhen 2 Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.39
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.82

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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Beibit Zhukayev

This will be the 2^nd time that Aleksandar Kovacevic and Beibit Zhukayev face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kovacevic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Kovacevic won 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Chicago Challenger back in July 2023.

Aleksandar Kovacevic

Aleksandar Kovacevic

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	19-19	14-7	5-8	0-1	0-3	0-0
2023	43-27	34-15	0-5	7-2	2-5	0-0
2022	41-31	22-18	4-4	15-9	0-0	0-0
2021	20-17	11-10	2-3	7-4	0-0	0-0
2020	5-5	1-1	0-0	4-4	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 112, the American reached the 2^nd round after defeating Charles Chen 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Kovacevic had a good straight sets win against Chen (6-3 6-1). During the match, Kovacevic scored 62 points vs Chen’s 39. Kovacevic was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kovacevic made 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 89% (17/19) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kovacevic broke Chen 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).

Kovacevic has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (143-111). 27-14 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kovacevic has an overall90-67 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Cleveland Challenger where he overcame Yibing Wu in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(2) and the Waco Challenger where he beat Alexandre Muller in the final 6-3 4-6 6-2 and the Shenzhen 1 Challenger where he beat Nuno Borges in the final 7-6(4) 7-6(5).

Kovacevic has a compiled 34-24 win-loss record in 2023, 27-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen 2 Challenger

Shenzhen 2 Challenger

Kovacevic's Record

Beibit Zhukayev

Beibit Zhukayev

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Rank
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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	18-17	6-8	6-4	0-1	6-4	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

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Ranked no. 249, Zhukayev reached the 2^nd round after defeating Xiaofei Wang 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Zhukayev had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-3 6-4). During the match Zhukayev scored 58 points vs Wang’s 46. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhukayev fired 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Beibit Zhukayev was very efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Beibit was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Wang twice.

Beibit’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Trimbach and the Little Rock Challenger.

Zhukayev has a compiled 30-27 win-loss record in 2023, 19-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Shenzhen 2 Challenger

Zhukayev's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Kovacevic and Zhukayev played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kovacevic and Zhukayev have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kovacevic played 3 games less than Zhukayev. Kovacevic scored 17 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, Beibit fired 28 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Kovacevic blasted 5 aces . Zhukayev fired 11 aces . Kovacevic won 89% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Aleksandar broke his opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. The American had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Beibit broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Aleksandar
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Beibit
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Rank

88

High

83

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Rank

213

High

171

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

19 - 19

18 - 17

14-7

Hard

6-8

5-8

Clay

6-4

0-3

Grass

6-4

Tennis Scores in Shenzhen 2 Challenger

• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Xiaofei WangWang (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Linang XiaoXiao (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Zhe LiLi – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (6-3 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Benjamin LockLock (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Jose StathamStatham (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Charles ChenChen (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Dominik PalanPalan – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Steven DiezDiez – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Luke SavilleSaville (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Colin SinclairSinclair – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Rigele TeTe (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Yan BaiBai – Arthur WeberWeber (6-4 6-7² 7-6³) – See score progression
• Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Fajing SunSun (6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Zhe LiLi – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (6-3 7-6(0)) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Benjamin LockLock (7-5 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Yan BaiBai – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Zhe LiLi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Colin SinclairSinclair – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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