Alexander Shevchenko and Mikhail Kukushkin will play each other in the 1st round of the Almaty Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 7:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Shevchenko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Shevchenko is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Shevchenko -> 1.61
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Shevchenko and Mikhail Kukushkin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kukushkin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Kukushkin won 6-4 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in Hangzhou back in September 2024.
Highlights Mikhail Kukushkin vs Alexander Shevchenko – Hangzhou 20-September-2024
Alexander Shevchenko
21 - 32win/loss
80
45
LLLWWLWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-35 | 8-13 | 6-12 | 7-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-34 | 16-15 | 19-13 | 10-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-33 | 2-4 | 41-23 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-27 | 8-4 | 33-17 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-8 | 13-4 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 61, Shevchenko will start his run in Almaty after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-1 6-7(5) 6-2 to Mensik in the 3rd round on the 8th of October.
The Kazakhstani has a composed 20-32 win-loss record in 2024, 5-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Shevchenko has an overall 250-168 record. He has a positive 31-22 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Almaty
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Mikhail Kukushkin
49 - 28win/loss
113
39
LLWLWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-31 | 24-10 | 10-9 | 12-8 | 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. 111, Kukushkin reached the 1st round after defeating Khumoun Sultanov 6-4 6-4 and Alibek Kachmazov 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Mikhail had a good straight sets win against Kachmazov (6-1 6-2). During the match Kukushkin scored 61 points vs Kachmazov’s 32. Kukushkin was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Kukushkin recorded 4 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mikhail Kukushkin was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Kachmazov 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kukushkin 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 59% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Manama Challenger where he beat 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..
Kukushkin has a composed 49-27 win-loss record in 2024, 9-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLWLWWLWWL Tennis Scores in Almaty
- Daniel EvansEvans – Taro DanielDaniel (6-2 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (5-7 7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Justin EngelEngel – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Borna CoricCoric – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli/Arjun KadheChoudary Bollipalli/Arjun Kadhe – Marco Bortolotti/Patrik Niklas-SalminenBortolotti/Patrik Niklas-Salminen (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander Shevchenko/Timofey SkatovShevchenko/Timofey Skatov – Evan King/Reese StalderKing/Reese Stalder (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jakob Schnaitter/Mark WallnerSchnaitter/Mark Wallner – Yuki Bhambri/Albano OlivettiBhambri/Albano Olivetti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Borna CoricCoric – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Daniel EvansEvans (5-4) – H2H and prediction
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
