Mikhail Kukushkin and Evgeny Karlovskiy will square off in the 1st round of the Manama Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 9:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.3
Evgeny Karlovskiy -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Evgeny Karlovskiy
This will be the 3rd time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Evgeny Karlovskiy clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Karlovskiy won 6-4 4-6 6-2 in the quarter in the Astana Challenger back in 2023.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-27 | 11-13 | 3-2 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 110, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Manama Challenger after he played his last match in Rotterdam where he lost 6-1 7-6(4) to Mayot in the qualifications on the 2nd of February.
The Kazakhstani has an overall 4-5 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 634-484 record. He has a positive 250-169 record on hard.
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2024. See his history.
Evgeny Karlovskiy
7 - 5win/loss
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211
LLWLLLLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-20 | 7-8 | 0-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 |
| 2024 | 44-25 | 20-15 | 10-6 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-29 | 6-9 | 3-11 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-30 | 6-6 | 15-10 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-27 | 12-5 | 3-8 | 11-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 427, Evgeny reached the 1st round after defeating Ivan Liutarevich 6-1 6-4 and Jelle Sels 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Sels (6-1 6-3). During the match Karlovskiy scored 65 points vs Sels’s 47. Karlovskiy was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Karlovskiy was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Evgeny Karlovskiy conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 6 break points. Furthermore, Karlovskiy put 80% of his first serves in, winning 67% (33/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Sels 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Karlovskiy started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Evgeny has a compiled 7-5 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Fajing SunSun (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicDuje – Constant LestienneConstant (4-6 6-4 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltBrandon – Pavel KotovPavel (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel EvansEvans – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Nicolas MejiaMejia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Charles BroomBroom – Aziz DougazDougaz (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
