Ivan Gakhov and Billy Harris will face off in the 1st round of the Malaga Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Billy Harris who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Billy Harris is the pick to win this match.
Billy Harris -> 1.66
Ivan Gakhov -> 2.10
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Prediction and head to head Ivan Gakhov vs. Billy Harris
There is no head to head record between Ivan Gakhov and Billy Harris since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Ivan Gakhov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-14 | 1-2 | 8-11 | 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 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-5 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 163, Ivan will start his run in the Malaga Challenger after he played his last match in the Lisbon Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-1 to Hassan in the 2nd round on the 4th of October.
Ivan has an aggregate 29-27 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Girona Challenger where he defeated Gastao Elias in the final 5-7 6-4 ret. and the Troisdorf Challenger where he overcame Frederico Ferreira Silva in the final 6-2 5-7 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Gakhov has an overall 378-229 record. He has a positive 33-29 record on hard.
Previously in the Malaga Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Billy Harris
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-14 | 3-3 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-34 | 27-15 | 7-8 | 14-5 | 11-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-34 | 23-13 | 10-9 | 9-8 | 2-3 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 51-20 | 13-5 | 38-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-13 | 19-10 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 304, Harris reached the 1st round after beating John Echeverria 7-5 7-5 and Daniel Merida Aguilar 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Billy had a good straight sets win against Merida Aguilar (6-2 6-1). During the match Harris scored 55 points vs Merida Aguilar’s 31. Harris was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Harris bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Billy Harris was very efficient on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Harris broke Merida Aguilar 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Harris started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 58% of the points he played.
Billy’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Las Franquesas del Valles Challenger and M25 Nottingham.
Harris has an overall 43-28 win-loss record in 2023, 25-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Malaga Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-2 2-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Gilles Arnaud BaillyArnaud Bailly (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Benoit PairePaire (6-0 4-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Emilio NavaNava – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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