Mikhail Kukushkin and Gregoire Barrere will square off in the 2^nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gregoire Barrere who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Gregoire Barrere is the pick to win this match.
Gregoire Barrere -> 1.6
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 2.22

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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Gregoire Barrere

This will be the 2^nd time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Gregoire Barrere face off. 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 locked horns, Kukushkin won 6-2 6-3 in the 1^st round in Lyon back in 2018.

Mikhail Kukushkin

Ranked no. 111, Kukushkin got to the 2^nd round after beating Edas Butvilas 6-4 4-6 7-6(3).

In the 1^st round, Mikhail defeated Butvilas (6-4 4-6 7-6³). During the match, Kukushkin scored 117 points vs Butvilas’s 113. Mikhail was pretty aggressive to blast 63 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kukushkin fired 6 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve twice and he saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 75% of his first serves in, winning 68% (63/92) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the 2nd serve. The Kazakhstani broke Butvilas twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Kukushkin has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (290-254). 10-5 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kukushkin has an overall 76-66 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the current season 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 overcame Matteo Gigante in the final 6-2 2-0 ret..

Mikhail has an aggregate 50-28 win-loss record in 2024, 10-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Brest Challenger

Gregoire Barrere

Ranked no. 156, Gregoire reached the 2^nd round after beating Carlos Taberner 7-6(4) 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Gregoire had a good straight sets win against Taberner (7-6⁴ 6-2). During the match Barrere scored 78 points vs Taberner’s 63. Gregoire was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Barrere blasted 2 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Gregoire Barrere lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Barrere put 62% of his first serves in, winning 65% (26/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the 2nd serve. Barrere broke Taberner 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Gregoire’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Bucharest,the Bordeaux Challenger and the St. Brieuc Challenger.

Gregoire has a composed 25-28 win-loss record in 2024, 7-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Brest Challenger

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2022. See his history

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kukushkin	Barrere
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	33	21
Pts	117-113	78-63
Total Points	230	141
Winners	63	26
%Winners	54%	33%

Both Kukushkin and Barrere played 1 match. At the moment, Mikhail Kukushkin dropped 1 set while Gregoire Barrere hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kukushkin has played 1 set more than Barrere (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kukushkin played 12 games more than Barrere. The Kazakhstani scored 63 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, Barrere struck 26 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kukushkin	Barrere
Aces	6	2
Avg per match	6	2
1st in	92/122	40/65
%1st in	75%	62%
1st pts	63/92	26/40
%1st pts	68%	65%
2nd pts	16/30	16/25
%2nd pts	53%	64%

Kukushkin scored 6 aces . Barrere recorded 2 aces . Kukushkin won 68% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Barrere won 65% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kukushkin	Barrere
Won	2	4
Converted	2/10	4/8
% Converted	20%	50%
Conceded	15	4
Saved	13	2
% Saved	87%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Mikhail broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Mikhail conceded his serve twice and he saved 87% of the break points that he conceded. Barrere broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Gregoire conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Kukushkin
	R1 Butvilas	Total
Score	6-4 4-6 7-63
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	117-113	117-113
Total points	230	230
Winners	63	63
%Winners	54%	54%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	92/122	92/122
% 1st in	75%	75%
1st pts	63/92	63/92
% 1st pts	68%	68%
2nd pts	16/30	16/30
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/10	2/10
Converted %	20%	20%
Conceded	15	15
Saved	13/15	13
Saved %	87%	87%
Times Broken	2	2

Barrere
	R1 Taberner	Total
Score	7-64 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	78-63	78-63
Total points	141	141
Winners	26	26
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	40/65	40/65
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	26/40	26/40
% 1st pts	65%	65%
2nd pts	16/25	16/25
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Brest Challenger

• Zsombor PirosPiros – Titouan DroguetDroguet (6-4 7-6⁹) – See score progression
• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Arthur GeaGea (3-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Raphael CollignonCollignon (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Billy HarrisHarris – Alexis GautierGautier (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Max Hans RehbergHans Rehberg (5-7 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Jakub PaulPaul – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Carlos TabernerTaberner (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Matteo MartineauMartineau – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-0 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Joao FonsecaFonseca – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Edas ButvilasButvilas (6-4 4-6 7-6³) – See score progression
• Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Emilio NavaNava (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Harold MayotMayot (2-6 6-3 7-6³) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Laslo DjereDjere – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Calvin HemeryHemery – Benjamin BonziBonzi (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Jakub PaulPaul (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Matteo MartineauMartineau (0-0) – H2H and prediction