Mikhail Kukushkin and Alibek Kachmazov will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Almaty Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikhail Kukushkin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.727
Alibek Kachmazov -> 2.02

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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Alibek Kachmazov

This will be the 2^nd time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Alibek Kachmazov square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kachmazov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played, Kachmazov won 6-4 6-7(2) 6-4 in the qualifications in the Helsinki Challenger back in 2023.

Mikhail Kukushkin

Ranked no. 103, Mikhail reached the qualifications after defeating Khumoun Sultanov 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Kukushkin had a good straight sets win against Sultanov (6-4 6-4). During the match, Kukushkin scored 59 points vs Sultanov’s 53. The Kazakhstani was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kukushkin bagged 3 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Mikhail Kukushkin was exceptionally effective on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kukushkin broke Sultanov 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Kukushkin has good match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (288-253). 8-4 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kukushkin has an overall 74-65 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the year was winning 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..

Mikhail has a compiled 48-27 win-loss record in 2024, 8-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Almaty

Alibek Kachmazov

Ranked no. 195, the Russian reached the qualifications after defeating Maxime Cressy 4-6 6-3 2-0 ret..

In the qualifications against Cressy, the Russian had a free pass after Cressy retired on a 4-6 6-3 2-0 . scoreline.

Alibek’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Saint Dizier.

Alibek has a composed 31-24 win-loss record in 2024, 8-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kukushkin	Kachmazov
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	4
Tot Games	20	21
Pts	59-53	63-51
Total Points	112	114
Winners	27	26
%Winners	46%	41%

Both Kukushkin and Kachmazov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Alibek Kachmazov lost 1 set while Mikhail Kukushkin hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kukushkin has played 2 set(s) less than Kachmazov (2 vs 4). Therefore, Kukushkin played 1 game less than Kachmazov. Kukushkin scored 27 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Kachmazov recorded 26 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kukushkin	Kachmazov
Aces	3	7
Avg per match	3	7
1st in	36/60	36/59
%1st in	60%	61%
1st pts	27/36	26/36
%1st pts	75%	72%
2nd pts	13/24	17/23
%2nd pts	54%	74%

Kukushkin bagged 3 aces . Kachmazov bagged 7 aces . Kukushkin won 75% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Kachmazov won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kukushkin	Kachmazov
Won	3	2
Converted	3/5	2/3
% Converted	60%	67%
Conceded	2	3
Saved	1	2
% Saved	50%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Kukushkin broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Mikhail conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Kachmazov conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Kukushkin
	Q1 Sultanov	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	59-53	59-53
Total points	112	112
Winners	27	27
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	36/60	36/60
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	27/36	27/36
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	13/24	13/24
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Kachmazov
	Q1 Cressy	Total
Score	4-6 6-3 2-0 ret.
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	21	21
pts	63-51	63-51
Total points	114	114
Winners	26	26
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	36/59	36/59
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	26/36	26/36
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	17/23	17/23
% 2nd pts	74%	74%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

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