ATP Challenger Tour · Round of 16 · WUNING OPEN 2
Final score & match stats
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Ellis
🤖 Servebot
Kukushkin
🎯 Baseliner
Matchup analysis
🤖 Servebot vs 🎯 Baseliner is historically tight (49% vs 51%, 2,630 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and H2H matter most when Blake Ellis plays Mikhail Kukushkin.
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Ellis | Kukushkin |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 4–5 | 3–7 |
| Avg odds | 3.07 | 2.09 |
| ROI % | -6.7% | -45.4% |
| Units P/L | -0.60u | -4.54u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Prior meetings and scores · 1 career meeting
1
Ellis
0
Kukushkin
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Across 2 shared opponents, both Ellis and Kukushkin posted a 50% win rate.
| Opponent | Ellis | Kukushkin |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre-Hugues Herbert | W 75 46 64 | W 57 76 75 |
| James Duckworth | L 63 16 46 | L 46 64 57 |
Serve and return comparison · Last 90 days
| Stat | Ellis | Kukushkin |
|---|---|---|
| Serve | ||
| 1st Serve In % | 54.8% | 60.1% |
| 1st Serve Pts Won % | 72.8% | 72.3% |
| 2nd Serve Pts Won % | 50.3% | 53.1% |
| Aces / Match | 8 | 4.5 |
| Double Faults / Match | 3.6 | 1.4 |
| Break Points Saved % | 71.7% | 47.1% |
| Return | ||
| 1st Return Pts Won % | 28.9% | 30.7% |
| 2nd Return Pts Won % | 48.9% | 51.7% |
| BP Converted % | 38.2% | 35.3% |
| Rally | ||
| Winners / Match | 29.7 | 19 |
| Unforced Errors / Match | 42.4 | 30.6 |
| Net Pts Won % | 51% | 59.4% |
| Total Pts Won % | 50.5% | 51% |
| Surface (Hard) | ||
| Hard Win % | 44% | 43% |
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Match summary
Blake Ellis and Mikhail Kukushkin will meet in the Round of 16 of the Wuning Open 2 on hard court outdoors on April 16, 2026. Ellis is ranked 531st while Kukushkin sits at 283rd, giving the Kazakhstan native a significant ranking advantage heading into their first career matchup.
This will be the first time these two players have faced each other on tour. There is no established head to head record or rivalry between them, so both players will be entering fresh competition without prior patterns or tendencies to study from direct experience.
Ellis has won 3 of his last 5 matches and 5 of his last 10, putting him on an upswing with one consecutive win. Kukushkin has taken 2 of his last 5 but won 6 of his last 10 matches, showing steadier form over a longer stretch. Ellis has been more active recently with three matches in the last two weeks, while Kukushkin has played just one match in that span.
Ellis plays as a big hitter who looks to finish points aggressively, though he's won just 45% of his hard court matches this season. Kukushkin operates as a grinder who grinds down opponents from the baseline, with a 55% win rate on hard courts. Kukushkin's patient style and hard court success give him a different tactical approach than Ellis's power based game.
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