Tristan Schoolkate and Beibit Zhukayev will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Cancun Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on CANCHA 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 Tristan Schoolkate who should win in 3 sets.
Tristan Schoolkate -> 1.46
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.56
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Prediction and head to head Tristan Schoolkate vs. Beibit Zhukayev
This will be the 2nd time that Tristan Schoolkate and Beibit Zhukayev clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Schoolkate (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Schoolkate won 5-7 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Acapulco Challenger back in 2024.
Tristan Schoolkate
38 - 25win/loss
100
95
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-36 | 33-25 | 0-2 | 2-5 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-33 | 38-24 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-30 | 30-23 | 4-4 | 2-2 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-29 | 24-15 | 17-11 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-20 | 8-9 | 3-5 | 11-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 97 (career-high), Schoolkate will start his run in the Cancun Challenger after he played his last match in Cincinnati where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Smith in the qualifications on the 5th of August.
Tristan has a composed 38-24 win-loss record in 2025, 29-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Brisbane 1 Challenger where he overcame Marek Gengel in the final 7-6(3) 7-6(4) and the Ilkley Challenger where he defeated Jack Pinnington Jones in the final 6-7(8) 6-4 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 208-145 record. He has a positive 139-97 record on hard.
Previously in the Cancun Challenger
Schoolkate has never competed in this tournament before.
Beibit Zhukayev
22 - 22win/loss
283
171
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-31 | 11-12 | 0-5 | 13-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-29 | 14-16 | 6-4 | 4-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-30 | 19-16 | 1-3 | 11-8 | 2-2 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 43-30 | 33-21 | 1-2 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 13-10 | 4-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 206, the Kazakhstani got to the 1st round after beating Rafael Matos 6-2 6-2 and Pablo Llamas Ruiz 7-6(4) 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Llamas Ruiz (7-64 6-4). During the match Zhukayev scored 70 points vs Llamas Ruiz’s 59. Beibit was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Zhukayev bagged 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Beibit Zhukayev lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Zhukayev put 51% of his first serves in, winning 94% (31/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. Zhukayev was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Llamas Ruiz 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Beibit started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 58% of the points he played.
Zhukayev’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Morelia Challenger.
Zhukayev has an overall 21-21 win-loss record in 2025, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Cancun Challenger
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-1 4-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (3-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Francesco PassaroPassaro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-1) – H2H and prediction