Adam Walton and Beibit Zhukayev will fight against each other in the quarter of the Cuernavaca Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:00 pm on ESTADIO MORELOS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Adam Walton who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.444
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.6
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Beibit Zhukayev
This will be the 3rd time that Adam Walton and Beibit Zhukayev square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Walton and Zhukayev (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Walton won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in the Cary 1 Challenger back in 2023.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-37 | 46-27 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 135 (career-high), the Australian reached the quarter after defeating Alafia Ayeni 6-3 6-1 and Antoine Bellier 7-611 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Walton had a good straight sets win against Bellier (7-611 6-4). During the match, Walton scored 82 points vs Bellier’s 74. Adam was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about the service games, Walton scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Adam Walton was quite effective on serve to win 93% (40/43) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Walton broke Bellier once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Walton has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 67% of his matches (128-62). 20-10 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Walton has a composed123-52 record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Burnie 2 Challenger where he defeated Dane Sweeny in the final 6-2 7-6(4).
Adam has an overall 20-11 win-loss record in 2024, 20-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cuernavaca Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Beibit Zhukayev
7 - 8win/loss
243
171
LWLLLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-29 | 14-16 | 6-4 | 4-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 192, Beibit got to the quarter after beating Benjamin Lock 7-66 6-2 and Christian Langmo 6-3 7-65.
In the 2nd round, Zhukayev had a good straight sets win against Langmo (6-3 7-65). During the match Zhukayev scored 67 points vs Langmo’s 55. Zhukayev was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhukayev made 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Beibit Zhukayev was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (34/40) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani broke Langmo twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zhukayev hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Zhukayev has an overall 7-7 win-loss record in 2024, 3-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 39 | 43 |
| Pts | 136-99 | 135-118 |
| Total Points | 235 | 253 |
| Winners | 54 | 68 |
| %Winners | 40% | 50% |
Both Walton and Zhukayev played 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Walton and Zhukayev have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Walton played 4 games less than Zhukayev. Walton scored 54 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani bagged 68 winners (50%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 9.5 |
| 1st in | 58/107 | 81/131 |
| %1st in | 54% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 54/58 | 68/81 |
| %1st pts | 93% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 34/49 | 28/50 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 56% |
Walton struck 9 aces (4.5 per match). Zhukayev fired 19 aces (9.5 per match). Walton won 93% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/12 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 42% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Australian broke his opponents 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Adam was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Zhukayev broke his opponents 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Zhukayev conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Walton | ||||
| R1 Ayeni |
R2 Bellier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 7-611 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 23 | 39 | |
| pts | 54-25 | 82-74 | 136-99 | |
| Total points | 79 | 156 | 235 | |
| Winners | 14 | 40 | 54 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 49% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 15/34 | 43/73 | 58/107 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 59% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 14/15 | 40/43 | 54/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/19 | 16/30 | 34/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 95% | 53% | 69% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 1/5 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 20% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhukayev | ||||
| R1 Lock |
R2 Langmo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-2 | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 22 | 43 | |
| pts | 68-63 | 67-55 | 135-118 | |
| Total points | 131 | 122 | 253 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 51% | 50% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 11 | 8 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 41/70 | 40/61 | 81/131 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 66% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 34/41 | 34/40 | 68/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 85% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 13/21 | 28/50 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 62% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/3 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 67% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 67% | 84% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLLWWLWW Tennis Scores in Cuernavaca Challenger
- Piotr Matuszewski/Matthew Christopher RomiosMatuszewski/Matthew Christopher Romios – Antoine Bellier/Beibit ZhukayevBellier/Beibit Zhukayev (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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