Frederico Ferreira Silva and Maxim Zhukov will play each other in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT C. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.42
Maxim Zhukov -> 2.61

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

This will be the 2nd time that Frederico Ferreira Silva and Maxim Zhukov fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ferreira Silva (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played, Ferreira Silva won 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in the Suzhou Challenger back in October 2025.

Frederico Ferreira Silva

Frederico Ferreira Silva

35 - 22win/loss

Hard
20-7
I Hard
3-3
Clay
12-12
Rank
253
High
168
LWLWWWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 36-23 20-7 12-12 4-4 0-0 0-0
2024 51-27 37-13 14-14 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 20-32 5-13 9-12 4-6 2-1 0-0
2022 30-26 11-10 11-12 8-3 0-1 0-0
2021 28-28 11-10 8-10 7-7 2-1 0-0

Ranked no. 241, Frederico will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Rocha in the semifinal on the 8th of November.

Frederico has a compiled 35-22 win-loss record in 2025, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Ferreira Silva’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio.

Talking about his overall career, Frederico has an overall 526-328 record. He has a positive 33-31 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2022. See his history.

Kobe Challenger
Ferreira Silva's Record

Maxim Zhukov

Maxim Zhukov

40 - 23win/loss

Hard
25-17
I Hard
15-1
Clay
0-5
Rank
449
High
449
LWLWWLLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
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
2021 1-2 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 467 (career-high), Maxim got to the 1st round after defeating Eito Komada 3-6 7-6(2) 6-3 and Neil Oberleitner 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications, Zhukov had a good straight sets win against Oberleitner (7-5 6-3). During the match Zhukov scored 76 points vs Oberleitner’s 63. Zhukov was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Zhukov fired 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Maxim Zhukov lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhukov put 62% of his first serves in, winning 60% (25/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Oberleitner 7 times after converting 78% of his break points (7/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zhukov started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

The Russian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Bhopal,M15 Monastir and M15 Maanshan.

Maxim has an overall 40-23 win-loss record in 2025, 15-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Kobe Challenger
Zhukov's Record

Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger

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