Gilles Simon and Emilio Nava will face off in the 1st round of the Pau Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gilles Simon who should win in 3 sets.
Gilles Simon -> 1.75
Emilio Nava -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Gilles Simon vs. Emilio Nava
There is no head to head record between Gilles Simon and Emilio Nava since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Gilles Simon
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25-29 | 7-6 | 4-10 | 11-10 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-24 | 2-4 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 4-4 | 1-5 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 28-27 | 8-11 | 5-5 | 7-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 35-26 | 8-7 | 10-8 | 13-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 148, the French player will start his run in the Pau Challenger after he played his last match in Marseille where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Tsonga in the 1st round on the 15th of February.
Gilles has an overall 6-6 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 652-474 record. He has a positive 181-113 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Pau Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Emilio Nava
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56-28 | 8-7 | 45-19 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-34 | 16-15 | 8-9 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-31 | 24-14 | 12-8 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-27 | 15-15 | 14-6 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-16 | 9-6 | 27-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 306 (career-high), Nava reached the 1st round after beating Mathieu Perchicot 6-0 6-2 and Radu Albot 7-63 3-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Nava defeated Albot (7-63 3-6 6-3). During the match Nava scored 121 points vs Albot’s 112. Nava was exceptionally aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Talking about serving, Nava fired 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Emilio Nava lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Nava put 71% of his first serves in, winning 66% (50/76) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the 2nd serve. Emilio broke Albot 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Emilio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Emilio has an aggregate 9-3 win-loss record in 2022, 9-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pau Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Pau Challenger
- Lucas PouillePouille – Norbert GombosGombos (2-6 7-65 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Harold MayotMayot (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicola KuhnKuhn (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine HoangHoang – Vasek PospisilPospisil (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Maxime JanvierJanvier (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kacper ZukZuk – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Gilles SimonSimon (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction