Elias Ymer and Oleksii Krutykh will square off in the 1st round of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 5. 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 Elias Ymer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elias Ymer is the pick to win this match.
Elias Ymer -> 1.78
Oleksii Krutykh -> 1.96

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Prediction and head to head Elias Ymer vs. Oleksii Krutykh

There is no head to head record between Elias Ymer and Oleksii Krutykh since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Elias Ymer

Elias Ymer

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Rank
169
High
105
LLWWWWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 35-31 11-7 16-20 7-3 1-1 0-0
2024 24-32 7-15 6-9 8-7 3-1 0-0
2023 42-41 10-13 24-17 7-10 1-1 0-0
2022 39-32 12-11 20-15 5-4 2-2 0-0
2021 35-29 9-9 20-11 6-8 0-1 0-0

Ranked no. 175, the Swede will start his run in the St. Tropez Challenger after he played his last match in Davis Cup, Group A, Bologna where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Sonego in the Rubber 2 on the 17th of September.

Elias has an overall 31-30 win-loss record in 2023, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Elias’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Elias has an overall 365-290 record. He has a negative 71-80 record on hard.

Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.

St. Tropez Challenger
Ymer's Record

Oleksii Krutykh

Oleksii Krutykh

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Rank
488
High
160
WLWLWLLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 31-19 7-4 24-15 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 41-40 12-8 29-31 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 33-32 13-8 15-16 4-5 1-2 0-1
2022 49-27 2-3 44-20 3-4 0-0 0-0
2021 41-25 8-3 32-20 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 256, the Ukrainian got to the 1st

round after beating Evgeny Karlovskiy 6-1 6-2 and Mikail Alimli 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, Oleksii had a good straight sets win against Alimli (6-1 6-2). During the match Krutykh scored 60 points vs Alimli’s 34. Krutykh was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.

About the serving games, Krutykh managed to score 3 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Oleksii Krutykh was very effective on serve to win 94% (17/18) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Krutykh broke Alimli 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Krutykh started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 63% of the points he played.

Oleksii has a compiled 22-22 win-loss record in 2023, 12-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.

St. Tropez Challenger
Krutykh's Record

Tennis Scores in St. Tropez Challenger

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