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.
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
35 - 22win/loss
253
168
| 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.
Maxim Zhukov
40 - 23win/loss
449
449
| 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).
Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Hyeon ChungChung – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Hyeon ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max BasingBasing – (0-0) – H2H and prediction