Ilia Simakin and Jiri Vesely will play each other in the qualifications of the Pune Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ilia Simakin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ilia Simakin is the pick to win this match.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.666
Jiri Vesely -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Ilia Simakin vs. Jiri Vesely
This will be the 2nd time that Ilia Simakin and Jiri Vesely fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Simakin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Simakin won 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in the Istanbul Challenger back in 2024.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-13 | 33-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 62-22 | 55-21 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-19 | 28-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-17 | 24-12 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 332, Simakin got to the qualifications after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Simakin had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-4 6-3). During the match, Simakin scored 61 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 44. Simakin was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Simakin recorded 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ilia Simakin lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Simakin put 65% of his first serves in, winning 80% (24/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (5/16) on the 2nd serve. Ilia broke Kumar Mukund 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Simakin has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 67% of his matches (124-61). 6-1 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Simakin has a compiled113-52 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
Simakin’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
Ilia has a compiled 6-1 win-loss record in 2025, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pune Challenger
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Jiri Vesely
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-8 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-27 | 6-8 | 7-12 | 6-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-15 | 5-3 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 20-19 | 12-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-27 | 4-5 | 8-12 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 362, the Czech reached the qualifications after defeating Siddhant Banthia 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Vesely had a good straight sets win against Banthia (6-2 6-3). During the match Vesely scored 65 points vs Banthia’s 44. Vesely was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Vesely bagged 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jiri Vesely was pretty effective on serve to win 86% (31/36) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Vesely broke Banthia 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
The Czech has an aggregate 3-3 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Simakin | Vesely |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 17 |
| Pts | 61-44 | 65-44 |
| Total Points | 105 | 109 |
| Winners | 24 | 31 |
| %Winners | 39% | 48% |
Both Simakin and Vesely played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Simakin and Vesely have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Simakin played 2 games more than Vesely. The Russian scored 24 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Vesely managed to score 31 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Simakin | Vesely |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 8 |
| 1st in | 30/46 | 36/54 |
| %1st in | 65% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 31/36 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 5/16 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 31% | 56% |
Simakin managed to score 3 aces . Vesely struck 8 aces . Simakin won 80% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 31% of the points. On the other side, Vesely won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Simakin | Vesely |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 60% | 60% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The Russian broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Simakin dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Jiri broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Czech was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Simakin | |||
| Q1 Kumar Mukund |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 61-44 | 61-44 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 30/46 | 30/46 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 24/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/16 | 5/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 31% | 31% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Vesely | |||
| Q1 Banthia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-44 | 65-44 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/54 | 36/54 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 31/36 | 31/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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