Billy Harris and Mikhail Kukushkin will play each other in the 1st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Billy Harris who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Billy Harris is the pick to win this match.
Billy Harris -> 1.83
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.85

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Prediction and head to head Billy Harris vs. Mikhail Kukushkin

This will be the 5th time that Billy Harris and Mikhail Kukushkin face off. The head to head is 3-1 for Harris (see full H2H stats), but Kukushkin leads 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played each other, Harris won 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in at the U.S. Open back in August 2025.

Billy Harris

Billy Harris

42 - 43win/loss

Hard
34-23
I Hard
1-5
Clay
2-9
Grass
5-6
Rank
125
High
101
LLLWLLWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 42-44 34-23 2-9 1-6 5-6 0-0
2024 39-36 12-13 6-8 7-9 14-6 0-0
2023 59-34 27-15 7-8 14-5 11-6 0-0
2022 46-34 23-13 10-9 9-8 2-3 2-1
2021 51-20 13-5 38-15 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 124, Harris will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match in Metz where he lost 6-1 6-7(9) 6-4 to Van in the qualifications on the 1st of November.

The Brit has an aggregate 42-43 win-loss record in 2025, 1-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Cassis Challenger where he beat Daniil Glinka in the final 3-6 7-5 6-3.

Talking about his overall career, The Brit has an overall 431-287 record. He has a positive 48-40 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Billy has never competed in this tournament before.

Lyon Challenger
Harris's Record

Mikhail Kukushkin

Mikhail Kukushkin

22 - 26win/loss

Hard
11-13
I Hard
7-8
Clay
3-2
Grass
1-3
Rank
294
High
39
LWWWWLLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-27 11-13 3-2 9-9 1-3 0-0
2024 52-32 24-10 10-9 12-9 6-4 0-0
2023 23-24 17-11 3-5 3-8 0-0 0-0
2022 36-28 18-11 0-2 13-11 5-4 0-0
2021 12-24 8-9 0-6 2-6 2-3 0-0

Ranked no. 317, the Kazakhstani reached the 1st round after beating Gilles Arnaud Bailly 6-1 6-3 and Marat Sharipov 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Sharipov (6-4 6-4). During the match Kukushkin scored 67 points vs Sharipov’s 56. The Kazakhstani was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Kukushkin recorded 3 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mikhail Kukushkin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (28/39) of his 1st serve and 78% (14/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Sharipov twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kukushkin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Kukushkin has an aggregate 22-26 win-loss record in 2025, 7-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.

Lyon Challenger
Kukushkin's Record

Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger

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