Beibit Zhukayev and Ajeet Rai will face off in the 1^st round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Beibit Zhukayev who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Beibit Zhukayev is the pick to win this match.
Beibit Zhukayev -> 1.23
Ajeet Rai -> 3.88

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Prediction and head to head Beibit Zhukayev vs. Ajeet Rai

There is no head to head record between Beibit Zhukayev and Ajeet Rai since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Beibit Zhukayev

Ranked no. 218, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match in the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-2 7-5 to Wu in the 2^nd round on the 29^th of August.

Zhukayev has an aggregate 21-21 win-loss record in 2024, 9-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Zhukayev has an overall 159-144 record. He has a positive 98-76 record on hard.

Previously in the Shanghai Challenger

Beibit has never competed in this tournament before.

Ajeet Rai

Ranked no. 510, the Kiwi got to the 1^st round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 2-6 6-1 6-4 and Omni Kumar 1-6 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications against Kumar, The Kiwi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-3). During the match Rai scored 74 points vs Kumar’s 72. The Kiwi was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Rai blasted 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Ajeet Rai was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (33/46) of his 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ajeet broke Kumar 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Kiwi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

Rai’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Hong Kong.

Ajeet has an aggregate 25-23 win-loss record in 2024, 21-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger

• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Rigele TeTe (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (7-6⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yan BaiBai (7-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Christian GarinGarin – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Tung-Lin WuWu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-0) – H2H and prediction