H2H, prediction of Mattia Bellucci vs Mikhail Kukushkin in Cary Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 15th August 2024

PREVIEW. Cary Challenger. Bellucci and Kukushkin will clash against each other in the quarter of the Cary Challenger. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their upcoming match on Thursday the 15th of August

Prediction and head to head Mattia Bellucci vs. Mikhail Kukushkin

Mattia Bellucci and Mikhail Kukushkin will square off in the quarter of the Cary Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mattia Bellucci who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Mattia Bellucci is the pick to win this match.
Mattia Bellucci -> 1.4
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 2.8

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Prediction and head to head Mattia Bellucci vs. Mikhail Kukushkin

This will be the 2nd time that Mattia Bellucci and Mikhail Kukushkin play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kukushkin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Kukushkin won 6-4 7-6(4) in the qualifications in at the U.S. Open back in 2023.

Mattia Bellucci

Mattia Bellucci
Mattia Bellucci

32 - 23win/loss

Hard
16-10
I Hard
5-7
Clay
5-2
Grass
6-4
Rank
100
High
100
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 51-32 31-17 5-2 9-9 6-4 0-0
2023 33-34 22-19 2-9 4-3 5-3 0-0
2022 66-23 30-4 25-12 11-7 0-0 0-0
2021 39-18 29-10 5-3 5-4 0-1 0-0
2020 15-6 13-3 0-1 0-1 0-0 2-1

Ranked no. 113 (career-high), Mattia got to the quarter after defeating Elias Ymer 7-5 7-5, Federico Agustin Gomez 6-4 6-2, Seong Chan Hong 6-4 6-2 and Nishesh Basavareddy 6-2 6-2.

In the 2nd round, Mattia had a good straight sets win against Basavareddy (6-2 6-2). During the match, Bellucci scored 65 points vs Basavareddy’s 44. Mattia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bellucci fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mattia Bellucci lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Bellucci put 64% of his first serves in, winning 63% (22/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Bellucci broke Basavareddy 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Bellucci has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (215-124). 15-10 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Bellucci has a compiled117-54 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Italian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Nottingham 2 Challenger.

The Italian has an overall 31-23 win-loss record in 2024, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cary Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Bellucci
Cary Challenger
Bellucci's Record

Mikhail Kukushkin

Mikhail Kukushkin
Mikhail Kukushkin

42 - 22win/loss

Hard
19-5
I Hard
7-4
Clay
10-9
Grass
6-4
Rank
112
High
39
LLLWLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 52-32 24-10 10-9 12-9 6-4 0-0
2023 23-24 17-11 3-5 3-8 0-0 0-0
2022 36-28 18-11 0-2 13-11 5-4 0-0
2021 12-24 8-9 0-6 2-6 2-3 0-0
2020 9-12 3-5 3-2 3-5 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 121, Kukushkin reached the quarter after beating Cooper Williams 5-7 6-4 6-4 and Aslan Karatsev 7-6(2) 3-6 6-1.

In the 2nd round, Mikhail defeated Karatsev (7-62 3-6 6-1). During the match Kukushkin scored 105 points vs Karatsev’s 97. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 49 winners.

About the serving games, Kukushkin scored 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mikhail Kukushkin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (49/65) of his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kukushkin broke Karatsev twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Mikhail has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Manama Challenger where he defeated Richard Gasquet in the final 7-6(5) 6-4 and the Tenerife 3 Challenger where he overcame Matteo Gigante in the final 6-2 2-0 ret..

The Kazakhstani has an overall 42-21 win-loss record in 2024, 19-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Kukushkin
Cary Challenger
Kukushkin's Record
Bonus
Soccer Tonic Predictions

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

M.Bellucci
M.Kukushkin
6h:41
6h:41
Time on court​
5h:12
5h:12
1h:21
1h:21
Last match​
!
2h:37
2h:37
!
4
4
Match played
2
2
76
76
Games Played​
61
61
8
8
Set played​​
6
6
292
292
Total points​
200
200
73
73
Avg point​
100
100
109
109
Winners
94
94
27.3
27.3
Avg Winners​
47
47
37%
37%
Ratio winners
47%
47%
-- Serve --
21
21
Aces
7
7
5.3
5.3
Avg Aces
3.5
3.5
12
12
Double Faults
4
4
3
3
Avg Double Faults
2
2
109/155
109/155
1st won total​
94/128
94/128
70%
70%
1st won %
!
73%
73%
53/97
53/97
2nd won total​
33/61
33/61
55%
55%
2nd won %
54%
54%
-- Break Points --
17/46
17/46
BP won
6/16
6/16
4.3/11.5
4.3/11.5
Avg BP won
3/8
3/8
37%
37%
Won
38%
38%
17
17
Conceded
10
10
4.3
4.3
Avg Conceded
5
5
5
5
Broken
4
4
1.3
1.3
Avg Broken
2
2
12
12
Saved
6
6

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Bellucci Kukushkin
Match played 4 2
Tot Set 8 6
Tot Games 76 61
Pts 292-228 200-185
Total Points 520 385
Winners 109 94
%Winners 37% 47%

Bellucci played 4 matches while Kukushkin competed in 2 matches. Bellucci started his run from the qualifications while Kukushkin had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Mikhail Kukushkin conceded 2 sets while Mattia Bellucci hasn’t lost a set so far. Bellucci has played 2 sets more than Kukushkin (8 vs 6). Therefore, Bellucci played 15 games more than Kukushkin. Bellucci scored 109 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Kukushkin struck 94 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve Bellucci Kukushkin
Aces 21 7
Avg per match 5.3 3.5
1st in 155/252 128/189
%1st in 62% 68%
1st pts 109/155 94/128
%1st pts 70% 73%
2nd pts 53/97 33/61
%2nd pts 55% 54%

Bellucci blasted 21 aces (5.3 per match). Kukushkin managed to score 7 aces (3.5 per match). Bellucci won 70% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Kukushkin won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Bellucci Kukushkin
Won 17 6
Converted 17/46 6/16
% Converted 37% 38%
Conceded 17 10
Saved 12 6
% Saved 71% 60%
Times Broken 5 4

Bellucci broke his opponents 17 times with a 37% conversion rate. The Italian surrendered his serve 5 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Mikhail broke his opponents 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. Kukushkin conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Bellucci
Q1
Ymer
Q3
Agustin
R1
Chan Hong
R2
Basavareddy
Total
Score 7-5 7-5 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 2 8
Tot Games 24 18 18 16 76
pts 84-76 73-58 70-50 65-44 292-228
Total points 160 131 120 109 520
Winners 26 32 29 22 109
%Winners 31% 44% 41% 34% 37%
SERVE
Aces 6 4 7 4 21
Double Faults 3 4 3 2 12
1st in 39/73 46/67 35/57 35/55 155/252
% 1st in 53% 69% 61% 64% 62%
1st pts 26/39 32/46 29/35 22/35 109/155
% 1st pts 67% 70% 83% 63% 70%
2nd pts 17/34 10/21 12/22 14/20 53/97
% 2nd pts 50% 48% 55% 70% 55%
Breaks
Won 5 4 3 5 17
Converted 5/11 4/13 3/11 5/11 17/46
Converted % 45% 31% 27% 45% 37%
Conceded 7 5 1 4 17
Saved 4/7 4/5 1/1 3/4 12
Saved % 57% 80% 100% 75% 78%
Times Broken 3 1 0 1 5
Kukushkin
R1
Williams
R2
Karatsev
Total
Score 5-7 6-4 6-4 7-62 3-6 6-1
Tot Set 3 3 6
Tot Games 32 29 61
pts 95-88 105-97 200-185
Total points 183 202 385
Winners 45 49 94
%Winners 47% 47% 47%
SERVE
Aces 3 4 7
Double Faults 1 3 4
1st in 63/90 65/99 128/189
% 1st in 70% 66% 68%
1st pts 45/63 49/65 94/128
% 1st pts 71% 75% 73%
2nd pts 15/27 18/34 33/61
% 2nd pts 56% 53% 54%
Breaks
Won 4 2 6
Converted 4/6 2/10 6/16
Converted % 67% 20% 38%
Conceded 4 6 10
Saved 1/4 5/6 6
Saved % 25% 83% 27%
Times Broken 3 1 4

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Bellucci
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Kukushkin
LLLWLWWLWW
2024 2023 2022
51 - 32
52 - 32
31-17
Hard
24-10
9-9
I Hard
12-9
5-2
Clay
10-9
6-4
Grass
6-4
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Soccer Tonic Predictions
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