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.

As per the initial odds, Tristan Schoolkate is the pick to win this match.
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

Tristan Schoolkate

38 - 25win/loss

Hard
29-19
I Hard
0-0
Clay
0-2
Grass
9-4
Rank
100
High
95
LLLWLWLLLW
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.

Cancun Challenger
Schoolkate's Record

Beibit Zhukayev

Beibit Zhukayev

22 - 22win/loss

Hard
9-7
I Hard
9-7
Clay
0-5
Grass
4-3
Rank
283
High
171
LWLWWLWLLW
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).

Cancun Challenger
Zhukayev's Record

Tennis Scores in Cancun Challenger

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