Gael Monfils and Ilya Ivashka will square off in the 2nd round of the Sofia Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 6:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ilya Ivashka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ilya Ivashka is the pick to win this match.
Ilya Ivashka -> 1.86
Gael Monfils -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Gael Monfils vs. Ilya Ivashka
This will be the 3rd time that Gael Monfils and Ilya Ivashka face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Monfils and Ivashka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Ivashka won 6-4 4-6 7-5 in the 1st round in Tokyo back in July 2021.
Gael Monfils
Ranked no. 20, the French player will start his run in Sofia after he played his last match in Metz where he lost 7-5 7-6(8) to Carreno-Busta in the semifinal on the 25th of September.
Gael has an aggregate 11-14 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Monfils’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Metz.
Talking about his overall career, Monfils has an overall 599-319 record. He has a positive 142-61 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Sofia
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
Ilya Ivashka
Ranked no. 45 (career-high), Ilya got to the 2nd round after beating Pablo Andujar 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Andujar (6-4 6-3). During the match Ivashka scored 65 points vs Andujar’s 59. Ilya was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Ivashka fired 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Ilya Ivashka was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (29/41) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ilya broke Andujar 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
His best result of the season was conquering the title in in Salem where he beat Mikael Ymer in the final 6-0 6-2.
The Belarussian has an aggregate 41-18 win-loss record in 2021, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LL Tennis Scores in Sofia
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gianluca MagerMager – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- John MillmanMillman – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Benoit PairePaire (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Gael MonfilsMonfils (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
