Mate Valkusz and Ernests Gulbis will square off in the 1st round of the Vilnus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ernests Gulbis who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ernests Gulbis is the pick to win this match.
Ernests Gulbis -> 1.81
Mate Valkusz -> 1.92
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Prediction and head to head Mate Valkusz vs. Ernests Gulbis
There is no head to head record between Mate Valkusz and Ernests Gulbis since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mate Valkusz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-8 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 5-2 | 23-14 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 33-14 | 5-5 | 27-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-9 | 4-2 | 27-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 275, the Hungarian will start his run in the Vilnus Challenger after he played his last match in the Parma Challenger where he lost 1-6 7-5 4-0 ret. to Skatov in the quarter on the 7th of October.
Valkusz has a compiled 32-12 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
The Hungarian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Opatija.
Talking about his overall career, Valkusz has an overall 167-68 record. He has a negative 1-4 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Vilnus Challenger
Valkusz has never competed in this tournament before.
Ernests Gulbis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-21 | 3-2 | 17-13 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-21 | 2-4 | 6-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 9-4 | 3-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2019 | 8-30 | 3-9 | 1-9 | 4-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 299, Ernests will start his run in the Vilnus Challenger after he played his last match in Sofia where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Humbert in the qualifications on the 25th of September.
Ernests has a compiled 25-20 win-loss record in 2022, 7-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Latvian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Zug Challenger.
In terms of his career, Gulbis has an overall 479-389 record. He has a positive 120-82 record on indoor hard courts.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gianluca MagerMager – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – David PoljakPoljak (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – Alastair GrayGray (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Ernests GulbisGulbis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dan AddedAdded – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ainius SabaliauskasSabaliauskas – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
