Mikhail Kukushkin and Vitaliy Sachko will square off in the 1st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 -> 1.51
Vitaliy Sachko -> 2.42
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Vitaliy Sachko
This will be the 2nd time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Vitaliy Sachko square 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 competed against each other, Kukushkin won 6-3 6-3 in the qualifications in at the Wimbledon back in June 2024.
Mikhail Kukushkin
52 - 32win/loss
112
39
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-32 | 24-10 | 10-9 | 12-9 | 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. 113, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match in the Helsinki Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-5 to Arnaboldi in the 1st round on the 4th of November.
Kukushkin has a composed 52-31 win-loss record in 2024, 12-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Manama Challenger where he overcame Richard Gasquet in the final 7-6(5) 6-4 and the Tenerife 3 Challenger where he beat Matteo Gigante in the final 6-2 2-0 ret..
Talking about his overall career, Kukushkin has an overall 630-478 record. He has a positive 146-112 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.
Vitaliy Sachko
25 - 26win/loss
394
156
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-28 | 3-5 | 14-17 | 10-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-32 | 4-3 | 28-16 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 24-33 | 2-3 | 12-18 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 42-28 | 0-2 | 24-17 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 7-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 413, Vitaliy reached the 1st round after beating Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-2 6-4 and Niels Visker 6-3 6-7(2) 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Ukrainian defeated Visker (6-3 6-72 6-4). During the match Sachko scored 113 points vs Visker’s 104. Vitaliy was very aggressive to blast 57 winners.
About the serving games, Sachko fired 4 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Vitaliy Sachko lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Sachko put 68% of his first serves in, winning 76% (57/75) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (13/36) on the 2nd serve. The Ukrainian broke Visker 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sachko started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Ukrainian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Trnava.
Vitaliy has an overall 24-26 win-loss record in 2024, 7-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger
- Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Gianluca MagerMager (6-3 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-3 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Raphael CollignonCollignon – Titouan DroguetDroguet (4-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harold MayotMayot – Dino PrizmicPrizmic (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Loann MassardMassard – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-4 6-72 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Borna CoricCoric – August HolmgrenHolmgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GautierGautier – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Henri SquireSquire (0-0) – H2H and prediction