Ryan Peniston and Daniel Cukierman will play each other in the qualifications of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ryan Peniston who should win in 2 sets.
Ryan Peniston -> 1.138
Daniel Cukierman -> 5.1
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Prediction and head to head Ryan Peniston vs. Daniel Cukierman
There is no head to head record between Ryan Peniston and Daniel Cukierman since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Ryan Peniston
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53-23 | 45-15 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-24 | 27-16 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-29 | 20-12 | 1-8 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-26 | 4-8 | 5-4 | 13-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-23 | 25-9 | 12-4 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 311, the Brit reached the qualifications after defeating Zhan Zheng 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Zheng (6-2 6-1). During the match, Peniston scored 60 points vs Zheng’s 30. Peniston was exceptionally aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Peniston fired 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ryan Peniston was quite effective on serve to win 90% (18/20) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Brit broke Zheng 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Peniston has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (286-177). 18-5 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Peniston has a compiled189-92 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Ryan’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Sunderland,M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio and M25 Loule.
The Brit has a compiled 22-7 win-loss record in 2025, 18-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Ryan has never competed in this tournament before.
Daniel Cukierman
4 - 7win/loss
841
339
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-13 | 1-3 | 2-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-18 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-25 | 17-11 | 6-5 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-28 | 39-14 | 5-7 | 5-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-13 | 3-4 | 20-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 796, the Israeli got to the qualifications after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-7(3) 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications against Moriya, Daniel recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 6-4 7-5). During the match Cukierman scored 128 points vs Moriya’s 122. The Israeli was quite aggressive to blast 45 winners.
Talking about serving, Cukierman scored 3 aces and he was not very solid on his 2nd serve to score 12 double faults. Daniel Cukierman lost the serve 8 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Cukierman put 61% of his first serves in, winning 62% (45/73) of the points behind his 1st serve and 30% (14/47) on the 2nd serve. Cukierman broke Moriya 10 times after converting 67% of his break points (10/15).
The Israeli has an aggregate 4-7 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Peniston | Cukierman |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 35 |
| Pts | 60-30 | 128-122 |
| Total Points | 90 | 250 |
| Winners | 18 | 45 |
| %Winners | 30% | 35% |
Both Peniston and Cukierman played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Daniel Cukierman surrendered 1 set while Ryan Peniston hasn’t conceded a set so far. Peniston has played 1 set(s) less than Cukierman (2 vs 3). Therefore, Peniston played 20 games less than Cukierman. Peniston scored 18 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Daniel made 45 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Peniston | Cukierman |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 20/43 | 73/120 |
| %1st in | 47% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 45/73 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 62% |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/47 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 30% |
Peniston managed to score 4 aces . Cukierman scored 3 aces . Peniston won 90% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Cukierman won 62% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 30% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Peniston | Cukierman |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 10 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 10/15 |
| % Converted | 63% | 67% |
| Conceded | 1 | 18 |
| Saved | 1 | 10 |
| % Saved | 100% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 8 |
Ryan broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Ryan pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Daniel broke his opponent 10 times with a 67% conversion rate. Cukierman conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.
| Peniston | |||
| Q1 Zheng | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 60-30 | 60-30 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 20/43 | 20/43 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 18/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Cukierman | |||
| Q1 Moriya | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-73 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 128-122 | 128-122 | |
| Total points | 250 | 250 | |
| Winners | 45 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 12 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 73/120 | 73/120 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 45/73 | 45/73 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/47 | 14/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 30% | 30% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 10 | 10 | |
| Converted | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 18 | 18 | |
| Saved | 10/18 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 56% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 8 | 8 | |
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