Frederico Ferreira Silva and Maxim Zhukov will face off in the 1^st round of the Suzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frederico Ferreira Silva who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Frederico Ferreira Silva is the pick to win this match.
Frederico Ferreira Silva -> 1.45
Maxim Zhukov -> 2.61

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Prediction and head to head Frederico Ferreira Silva vs. Maxim Zhukov

There is no head to head record between Frederico Ferreira Silva and Maxim Zhukov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Frederico Ferreira Silva

Ranked no. 245, the Portuguese will start his run in the Suzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Mayot in the 2^nd round on the 16^th of October.

Frederico has an overall 28-19 win-loss record in 2025, 13-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Frederico’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio.

Talking about his overall career, Ferreira Silva has an overall 519-325 record. He has a positive 264-128 record on hard.

Previously in the Suzhou Challenger

The Portuguese has never competed in this tournament before.

Maxim Zhukov

Ranked no. 488 (career-high), Maxim reached the 1^st round after beating Koki Matsuda 6-3 6-7(6) 6-4 and Naoki Tajima 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Maxim had a good straight sets win against Tajima (6-2 6-3). During the match Zhukov scored 63 points vs Tajima’s 45. Zhukov was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.

About the serving games, Zhukov struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Maxim Zhukov lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhukov put 67% of his first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Tajima 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Maxim started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Zhukov’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Bhopal,M15 Monastir and M15 Maanshan.

Zhukov has an overall 38-21 win-loss record in 2025, 25-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Suzhou Challenger

• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-7⁴ 6-2 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (6-3 4-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Henrique RochaRocha (6-7¹ 7-6⁶ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James McCabeMcCabe – Jason JungJung (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aoran WangWang – Rigele TeTe (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sergey FominFomin – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jie CuiCui – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Garrett JohnsJohns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ye Cong MoCong Mo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Omar JasikaJasika (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Harold MayotMayot – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction