Thiago Agustin Tirante and Ivan Gakhov will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thiago Agustin Tirante who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Thiago Agustin Tirante is the pick to win this match.
Thiago Agustin Tirante -> 1.40
Ivan Gakhov -> 2.75

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Prediction and head to head Thiago Agustin Tirante vs. Ivan Gakhov

There is no head to head record between Thiago Agustin Tirante and Ivan Gakhov since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Thiago Agustin Tirante

Thiago Agustin Tirante

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Rank
106
High
90
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 50-33 14-7 35-22 1-3 0-1 0-0
2024 35-30 5-4 26-22 3-3 1-1 0-0
2023 43-31 13-10 29-19 0-0 1-2 0-0
2022 28-31 2-4 25-26 0-0 1-1 0-0
2021 35-23 8-4 27-19 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 185, Agustin Tirante will start his run in the Sibiu Challenger after he played his last match in the Szczecin Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 6-3 to Novak in the 1st round on the 13th of September.

The Argentine has a compiled 23-23 win-loss record in 2022, 21-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Argentine’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Lima Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Thiago has an overall 129-88 record. He has a positive 95-71 record on clay.

Previously in the Sibiu Challenger

The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.

Sibiu Challenger
Agustin Tirante's Record

Ivan Gakhov

Ivan Gakhov

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Rank
257
High
142
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 54-37 3-3 46-30 5-4 0-0 0-0
2024 36-35 1-2 35-32 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 30-30 2-4 26-21 2-4 0-1 0-0
2022 56-32 1-3 53-26 2-3 0-0 0-0
2021 43-28 0-1 38-23 5-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 288, Gakhov got to the 1st round after beating Radu Florin Macovei 6-1 6-2 and Stefan Palosi 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Gakhov had a good straight sets win against Palosi (6-3 6-2). During the match Gakhov scored 58 points vs Palosi’s 39. Ivan was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Gakhov recorded 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ivan Gakhov was quite effective on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gakhov was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Palosi 3 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 61% of the points he played.

The Russian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Shymkent.

The Russian has an overall 41-26 win-loss record in 2022, 38-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Sibiu Challenger
Gakhov's Record

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