Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg and Maxim Zhukov will play each other in the qualifications of the Chennai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg is the pick to win this match.
Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg -> 1.21
Maxim Zhukov -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg vs. Maxim Zhukov
There is no head to head record between Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg and Maxim Zhukov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg
8 - 2win/loss
259
245
LWLLLLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-23 | 3-5 | 5-11 | 8-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-30 | 11-10 | 13-7 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 34-27 | 2-4 | 8-8 | 23-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 45-24 | 16-7 | 7-5 | 22-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 253 (career-high), the French player got to the qualifications after beating Ray Ho 7-6(2) 7-6(1).
In the qualifications, Sascha had a good straight sets win against Ho (7-62 7-61). During the match, Gueymard Wayenburg scored 99 points vs Ho’s 84. Sascha was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gueymard Wayenburg managed to score 13 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (38/53) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The French player broke Ho 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Gueymard Wayenburg has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (136-92). 1-0 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gueymard Wayenburg has a composed39-27 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Quimper Challenger where he overcame Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the final 6-7(3) 6-1 6-2.
Sascha has a compiled 8-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chennai Challenger
Gueymard Wayenburg has never competed in this tournament before.
Maxim Zhukov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-15 | 16-11 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-29 | 24-18 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-25 | 17-14 | 14-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-22 | 13-11 | 16-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 641 (career-high), Zhukov reached the qualifications after beating Siddhant Banthia 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Zhukov had a good straight sets win against Banthia (6-2 6-2). During the match Zhukov scored 63 points vs Banthia’s 39. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhukov managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Maxim Zhukov was pretty efficient on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maxim broke Banthia 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Zhukov’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Bhopal.
Maxim has a compiled 5-2 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gueymard Wayenburg | Zhukov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 16 |
| Pts | 99-84 | 63-39 |
| Total Points | 183 | 102 |
| Winners | 38 | 24 |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% |
Both Gueymard Wayenburg and Zhukov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gueymard Wayenburg and Zhukov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gueymard Wayenburg played 10 games more than Zhukov. Gueymard Wayenburg scored 38 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Maxim scored 24 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gueymard Wayenburg | Zhukov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 13 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 13 | 7 |
| 1st in | 53/84 | 27/51 |
| %1st in | 63% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 38/53 | 24/27 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 14/24 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 58% |
Gueymard Wayenburg recorded 13 aces . Zhukov struck 7 aces . Gueymard Wayenburg won 72% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Zhukov won 89% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gueymard Wayenburg | Zhukov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 30% | 67% |
| Conceded | 8 | 3 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 63% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Sascha broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Gueymard Wayenburg | |||
| Q1 Ho |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 7-61 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 99-84 | 99-84 | |
| Total points | 183 | 183 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 53/84 | 53/84 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 38/53 | 38/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 16/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Zhukov | |||
| Q1 Banthia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 63-39 | 63-39 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 27/51 | 27/51 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 24/27 | 24/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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