Brandon Holt and Maxim Zhukov will face off in the 1st round of the Jinan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Holt who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Brandon Holt is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Holt -> 1.37
Maxim Zhukov -> 2.92
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Holt vs. Maxim Zhukov
There is no head to head record between Brandon Holt and Maxim Zhukov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Brandon Holt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 44-30 | 32-18 | 0-2 | 5-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-31 | 37-24 | 1-1 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-24 | 14-16 | 1-2 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-21 | 48-17 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 115, the American will start his run in the Jinan Challenger after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-1 7-5 to Sakamoto in the qualifications on the 29th of September.
Holt has a compiled 40-26 win-loss record in 2025, 30-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he overcame Vit Kopriva in the final 6-3 6-2 and the Bengaluru Challenger where he overcame Shintaro Mochizuki in the final 6-3 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Holt has an overall 215-142 record. He has a positive 182-110 record on hard.
Previously in the Jinan Challenger
Brandon has never competed in this tournament before.
Maxim Zhukov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14-13 | 4-10 | 0-0 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 41-25 | 26-18 | 0-5 | 15-2 | 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 |
Ranked no. 506 (career-high), the Russian got to the 1st round after beating Alex Bolt 6-4 6-2 and Xiaofei Wang 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-4 6-2). During the match Zhukov scored 70 points vs Wang’s 53. Maxim was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhukov blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Maxim Zhukov lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Zhukov put 60% of his first serves in, winning 73% (30/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. Zhukov broke Wang 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zhukov started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.
Maxim’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Bhopal,M15 Monastir and M15 Maanshan.
The Russian has an overall 35-19 win-loss record in 2025, 22-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Jinan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Fajing SunSun – Adam WaltonWalton (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – August HolmgrenHolmgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Titouan DroguetDroguet – Jie CuiCui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Bernard TomicTomic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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