Bu Yunchaokete and Beibit Zhukayev will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Lincoln Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bu Yunchaokete who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Bu Yunchaokete is the pick to win this match.
Bu Yunchaokete -> 1.57
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.31

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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Beibit Zhukayev

This will be the 2^nd time that Bu Yunchaokete and Beibit Zhukayev play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Yunchaokete (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Yunchaokete won 6-2 6-4 in the quarter in M15 Monastir back in 2022.

Bu Yunchaokete

Ranked no. 134 (career-high), Yunchaokete got to the 2^nd round after defeating Shintaro Mochizuki 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Yunchaokete had a good straight sets win against Mochizuki (6-4 6-2). During the match, Yunchaokete scored 85 points vs Mochizuki’s 67. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about the service games, Yunchaokete struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Bu Yunchaokete lost the serve twice and he saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Yunchaokete put 60% of his first serves in, winning 62% (32/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the 2nd serve. Bu broke Mochizuki 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).

Yunchaokete has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 69% of his matches (159-70). 29-8 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Yunchaokete has an aggregate141-49 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he defeated Egor Gerasimov in the final 6-4 6-1 and the Granby Challenger where he defeated Terence Atmane in the final 6-3 6-7(7) 6-4.

Bu has a compiled 34-15 win-loss record in 2024, 29-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lincoln Challenger

Bu has never competed in this tournament before.

Beibit Zhukayev

Ranked no. 220, Beibit got to the 2^nd round after defeating Anton Shepp 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Shepp (6-4 6-2). During the match Zhukayev scored 73 points vs Shepp’s 57. Beibit was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Zhukayev scored 7 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Beibit Zhukayev lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zhukayev put 53% of his first serves in, winning 75% (27/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (15/32) on the 2nd serve. Beibit broke Shepp 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Zhukayev has an aggregate 19-17 win-loss record in 2024, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Yunchaokete	Zhukayev
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
Pts	85-67	73-57
Total Points	152	130
Winners	32	27
%Winners	38%	37%

Both Yunchaokete and Zhukayev played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Yunchaokete and Zhukayev have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (18). Yunchaokete scored 32 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Zhukayev bagged 27 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Yunchaokete	Zhukayev
Aces	3	7
Avg per match	3	7
1st in	52/87	36/68
%1st in	60%	53%
1st pts	32/52	27/36
%1st pts	62%	75%
2nd pts	18/35	15/32
%2nd pts	51%	47%

Yunchaokete recorded 3 aces . Zhukayev managed to score 7 aces . Yunchaokete won 62% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 75% 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	Yunchaokete	Zhukayev
Won	5	5
Converted	5/14	5/9
% Converted	36%	56%
Conceded	15	5
Saved	13	3
% Saved	87%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Yunchaokete broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Bu conceded his serve twice and he saved 87% of the break points that he conceded. The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Yunchaokete
	R1 Mochizuki	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	85-67	85-67
Total points	152	152
Winners	32	32
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	52/87	52/87
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	32/52	32/52
% 1st pts	62%	62%
2nd pts	18/35	18/35
% 2nd pts	51%	51%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/14	5/14
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	15	15
Saved	13/15	13
Saved %	87%	87%
Times Broken	2	2

Zhukayev
	R1 Shepp	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	73-57	73-57
Total points	130	130
Winners	27	27
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	36/68	36/68
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	27/36	27/36
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	15/32	15/32
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	3/5	3
Saved %	60%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Lincoln Challenger

• Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Aidan MayoMayo – Borna GojoGojo (7-6⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Ethan QuinnQuinn (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Ozan BarisBaris – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (7-6³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Colton SmithSmith – Joshua LapadatLapadat (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Jack Pinnington JonesPinnington Jones – Emilio NavaNava (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Stefan KozlovKozlov (2-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Harold MayotMayot – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Tristan BoyerBoyer (7-5 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Paul JubbJubb – Joan Torres EspinosaTorres Espinosa (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Anton SheppShepp (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Cooper WilliamsWilliams – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (7-6³ 7-5) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
• Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Colton SmithSmith – Joshua LapadatLapadat (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Stefan KozlovKozlov (2-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ozan BarisBaris – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (1-0 ret.) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Li TuTu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Paul JubbJubb – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Harold MayotMayot – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction