Alibek Kachmazov and Soon-Woo Kwon will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Soon-Woo Kwon who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Soon-Woo Kwon is the pick to win this match.
Soon-Woo Kwon -> 1.44
Alibek Kachmazov -> 2.66

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Prediction and head to head Alibek Kachmazov vs. Soon-Woo Kwon

There is no head to head record between Alibek Kachmazov and Soon-Woo Kwon since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Alibek Kachmazov

Ranked no. 259, Kachmazov reached the 2^nd round after defeating Altug Celikbilek 6-4 4-6 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Russian defeated Celikbilek (6-4 4-6 6-3). During the match, Kachmazov scored 109 points vs Celikbilek’s 98. Kachmazov was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kachmazov scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 6 double faults. Alibek Kachmazov lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kachmazov put 62% of his first serves in, winning 71% (42/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. Kachmazov broke Celikbilek 5 times after converting 25% of his break points (5/20).

Kachmazov has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 62% of his matches (161-98). 1-1 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kachmazov has a compiled65-47 match record in the last 6 years on hard.

Alibek’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Saint Dizier.

Alibek has an aggregate 8-6 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Busan Challenger

Kachmazov has never competed in this tournament before.

Soon-Woo Kwon

Ranked no. 645, Kwon got to the 2^nd round after beating Mattia Bellucci 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Kwon had a good straight sets win against Bellucci (6-4 6-3). During the match Kwon scored 65 points vs Bellucci’s 52. The Korean was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.

About the serving games, Kwon scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Soon-Woo Kwon lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kwon put 58% of his first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the 2nd serve. The Korean broke Bellucci 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).

Kwon has an overall 2-4 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kachmazov	Kwon
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	29	19
Pts	109-98	65-52
Total Points	207	117
Winners	42	20
%Winners	39%	31%

Both Kachmazov and Kwon played 1 match. At the moment, Alibek Kachmazov lost 1 set while Soon-Woo Kwon hasn’t dropped a set so far. Kachmazov has played 1 set more than Kwon (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kachmazov played 10 games more than Kwon. The Russian scored 42 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Soon-Woo fired 20 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kachmazov	Kwon
Aces	1	1
Avg per match	1	1
1st in	59/95	30/52
%1st in	62%	58%
1st pts	42/59	20/30
%1st pts	71%	67%
2nd pts	17/36	12/22
%2nd pts	47%	55%

Kachmazov blasted 1 ace . Kwon also recorded 1 ace . Kachmazov won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Kwon won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kachmazov	Kwon
Won	5	6
Converted	5/20	6/8
% Converted	25%	75%
Conceded	8	4
Saved	5	1
% Saved	63%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Kachmazov broke his opponent 5 times with a 25% conversion rate. Alibek conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Kwon broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Soon-Woo conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.

Kachmazov
	R1 Celikbilek	Total
Score	6-4 4-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	29	29
pts	109-98	109-98
Total points	207	207
Winners	42	42
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	59/95	59/95
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	42/59	42/59
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	17/36	17/36
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/20	5/20
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	5/8	5
Saved %	63%	63%
Times Broken	3	3

Kwon
	R1 Bellucci	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	65-52	65-52
Total points	117	117
Winners	20	20
%Winners	31%	31%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	30/52	30/52
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	20/30	20/30
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	12/22	12/22
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger

• Tung-Lin WuWu – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (6-7¹ 6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Alexander BlockxBlockx (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Paul JubbJubb – Li TuTu (7-6³ 6-1) – See score progression
• Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Yanki ErelErel (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Hoyoung RohRoh (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Yunseong ChungChung (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Arthur FeryFery – Jules MarieMarie (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Alex BoltBolt (6-1 7-6¹) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Dane SweenySweeny (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Paul JubbJubb (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction