H2H, prediction of Mikhail Kukushkin vs Evgeny Donskoy in Guangzhou Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 10th September 2024

PREVIEW. Guangzhou Challenger. Kukushkin and Donskoy will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their upcoming match on Tuesday the 10th of September

Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Evgeny Donskoy

Mikhail Kukushkin and Evgeny Donskoy will play each other in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 12th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 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 Mikhail Kukushkin who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.43
Evgeny Donskoy -> 2.69

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Soccer Tonic Predictions

Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Evgeny Donskoy

This will be the 12th time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Evgeny Donskoy square off. The head to head is 8-3 for Kukushkin (see full H2H stats), 5-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kukushkin won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in Moscow back in 2019.

Mikhail Kukushkin

Mikhail Kukushkin
Mikhail Kukushkin

42 - 24win/loss

Hard
19-7
I Hard
7-4
Clay
10-9
Grass
6-4
Rank
110
High
39
LWLWWLWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 52-30 24-10 10-9 12-7 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. 118, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Istanbul Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-3 7-5 to Geerts in the 1st round on the 2nd of September.

Mikhail has a compiled 42-24 win-loss record in 2024, 19-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year 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 defeated Matteo Gigante in the final 6-2 2-0 ret..

Talking about his overall career, Kukushkin has an overall 620-471 record. He has a positive 243-164 record on hard.

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.

Kukushkin
Guangzhou Challenger
Kukushkin's Record

Evgeny Donskoy

Evgeny Donskoy
Evgeny Donskoy

23 - 19win/loss

Hard
23-19
I Hard
0-0
Rank
457
High
65
LWWLWLLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 23-20 23-20 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 48-31 39-17 3-4 6-9 0-1 0-0
2022 18-22 6-12 4-7 8-2 0-0 0-1
2021 19-28 8-8 2-7 7-9 2-4 0-0
2020 10-16 7-9 0-3 1-3 0-0 2-1

Ranked no. 394, the Russian reached the 1st round after beating Linghao Zhang 6-2 6-1 and Pengyu Lu 6-0 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Lu (6-0 6-1). During the match Donskoy scored 51 points vs Lu’s 21. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 14 winners.

About the serving games, Donskoy struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Evgeny Donskoy was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (14/17) of his 1st serve and 83% (10/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Lu 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 66% of the points he played.

Evgeny’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Tianjin.

Evgeny has a compiled 23-19 win-loss record in 2024, 23-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.

Donskoy
Guangzhou Challenger
Donskoy's Record
Bonus
Soccer Tonic Predictions

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Kukushkin
LWLWWLWWLL
Donskoy
LWWLWLLWLL
2024 2023 2022
52 - 30
23 - 20
24-10
Hard
23-20
12-7
I Hard
0-0
10-9
Clay
0-0
6-4
Grass
0-0

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger

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Soccer Tonic Predictions
Bonus

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