Tom Paris and Mikhail Kukushkin will face off in the quarter of the Lyon Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikhail Kukushkin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.51
Tom Paris -> 2.35

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Prediction and head to head Tom Paris vs. Mikhail Kukushkin

This will be the 2^nd time that Tom Paris and Mikhail Kukushkin play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Paris (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Paris won 7-6(5) 6-4 in the 2^nd round in the St. Tropez Challenger back in September 2025.

Tom Paris

Ranked no. 260 (career-high), Tom got to the quarter after beating Benjamin Hassan 6-3 6-4

and Laslo Djere 7-6(5) 7-6(3).

In the 2^nd round, Paris had a good straight sets win against Djere (7-6⁵ 7-6³). During the match, Paris scored 78 points vs Djere’s 75. Tom was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Paris scored 15 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Overall, Tom Paris was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (37/44) of his 1st serve and 53% (20/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Tom broke Djere once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Tom hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Paris has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (108-68). 11-11 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Paris has an aggregate35-28 win-loss record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.

Tom’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Oslo,M25 Nussloch,Nova and M25 Sarreguemines.

The French player has a compiled 44-27 win-loss record in 2025, 11-11 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Mikhail Kukushkin

Ranked no. 317, Kukushkin got to the quarter after beating Gilles Arnaud Bailly 6-1 6-3, Marat Sharipov 6-4 6-4, Billy Harris 7-6(2) 7-5 and Luca Van Assche 6-2 7-6(5).

In the 2^nd round, Kukushkin had a good straight sets win against Van Assche (6-2 7-6⁵). During the match Kukushkin scored 79 points vs Van Assche’s 74. Mikhail was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Kukushkin recorded 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (33/43) of his 1st serve and 55% (17/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mikhail broke Van Assche twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Mikhail started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.

Mikhail has a compiled 24-26 win-loss record in 2025, 9-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

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

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Paris	Kukushkin
Match played	2	4
Tot Set	4	8
Tot Games	45	82
Pts	143-123	281-231
Total Points	266	512
Winners	66	118
%Winners	46%	42%

Paris played 2 matches while Kukushkin competed in 4 matches. Kukushkin started his run from the qualifications while Paris had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Paris has played 4 set(s) less than Kukushkin (4 vs 8). Therefore, Paris played 37 games less than Kukushkin. The French player scored 66 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani recorded 118 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Paris	Kukushkin
Aces	29	25
Avg per match	14.5	6.3
1st in	81/141	149/237
%1st in	57%	63%
1st pts	66/81	118/149
%1st pts	81%	79%
2nd pts	33/60	61/88
%2nd pts	55%	69%

Paris made 29 aces (14.5 per match). Kukushkin recorded 25 aces (6.3 per match). Paris won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Kukushkin won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Paris	Kukushkin
Won	4	9
Converted	4/9	9/28
% Converted	44%	32%
Conceded	4	7
Saved	2	7
% Saved	50%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

The French player broke his opponents 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The French player lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Kukushkin broke his opponents 9 times with a 32% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 7 break points.

Paris
	R1 Hassan	R2 Djere	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	7-65 7-63
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	19	26	45
pts	65-48	78-75	143-123
Total points	113	153	266
Winners	29	37	66
%Winners	45%	47%	46%
SERVE
Aces	14	15	29
Double Faults	3	9	12
1st in	37/59	44/82	81/141
% 1st in	63%	54%	57%
1st pts	29/37	37/44	66/81
% 1st pts	78%	84%	81%
2nd pts	13/22	20/38	33/60
% 2nd pts	59%	53%	55%
Breaks
Won	3	1	4
Converted	3/7	1/2	4/9
Converted %	43%	50%	44%
Conceded	3	1	4
Saved	2/3	0/1	2
Saved %	67%	0%	34%
Times Broken	1	1	2

Kukushkin
	Q1 Arnaud	Q3 Sharipov	R1 Harris	R2 Van	Total
Score	6-1 6-3	6-4 6-4	7-62 7-5	6-2 7-65
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	16	20	25	21	82
pts	61-39	67-56	74-62	79-74	281-231
Total points	100	123	136	153	512
Winners	23	28	34	33	118
%Winners	38%	42%	46%	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	5	3	11	6	25
Double Faults	0	0	1	2	3
1st in	26/42	39/57	41/64	43/74	149/237
% 1st in	62%	68%	64%	58%	63%
1st pts	23/26	28/39	34/41	33/43	118/149
% 1st pts	88%	72%	83%	77%	79%
2nd pts	10/16	14/18	20/23	17/31	61/88
% 2nd pts	63%	78%	87%	55%	69%
Breaks
Won	4	2	1	2	9
Converted	4/11	2/3	1/5	2/9	9/28
Converted %	36%	67%	20%	22%	32%
Conceded	2	0	0	5	7
Saved	2/2	0/0	0/0	5/5	7
Saved %	100%	–	–	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0	0	0	0

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