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.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.43
Evgeny Donskoy -> 2.69
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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
42 - 24win/loss
118
39
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-24 | 19-7 | 10-9 | 7-4 | 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.
Evgeny Donskoy
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-19 | 23-19 | 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.
Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger
- Yan BaiBai – Blake MottMott (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Vadym UrsuUrsu (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca NardiNardi – Jie CuiCui (6-4 3-6 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paul JubbJubb – Linang XiaoXiao (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (8-3) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Markos KalovelonisKalovelonis – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Tristan LamasineLamasine (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rishab AgarwalAgarwal – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paul JubbJubb – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexey ZakharovZakharov – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yaojie ZengZeng – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction