Akram El Sallaly and David Pichler will face off in the 1st round of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is David Pichler who should win in 2 sets.
David Pichler -> 1.094
Akram El Sallaly -> 6.35
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Prediction and head to head Akram El Sallaly vs. David Pichler
There is no head to head record between Akram El Sallaly and David Pichler since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Akram El Sallaly
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-16 | 10-11 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-26 | 17-18 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-27 | 8-13 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-13 | 2-6 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-7 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, El Sallaly reached the 1st round after defeating Lawrence Bataljin 6-0 6-4 and Kelsey Stevenson 7-64 7-61.
In the qualifications, Akram had a good straight sets win against Stevenson (7-64 7-61). During the match, El Sallaly scored 87 points vs Stevenson’s 76. Akram was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, El Sallaly scored 5 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Overall, Akram El Sallaly was extremely effective on serve to win 80% (39/49) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Egyptian broke Stevenson once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Akram started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
El Sallaly has a losing win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 40% of his matches (56-83). 3-2 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, El Sallaly has a compiled27-40 record in the last 8 years on clay.
El Sallaly has a composed 4-3 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
David Pichler
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-22 | 4-8 | 11-12 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-33 | 5-7 | 23-23 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 11-5 | 32-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 2-2 | 28-22 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-17 | 16-11 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 579, the Austrian will start his run in the Kigali 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Kigali 1 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Hemery in the 1st round on the 27th of February.
The Austrian has an overall 4-5 win-loss record in 2024, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Austrian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Bhopal.
In terms of his career, David has an overall 305-231 record. He has a positive 183-133 record on clay.
Tennis Scores in Kigali 2 Challenger
- Clement TaburTabur – Emilien VoisinVoisin (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Joshua SheehySheehy (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aziz OuakaaOuakaa – Guy Orly IradukundaOrly Iradukunda (4-6 6-1 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo PazPablo Paz – Yshai OlielOliel (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Max HoukesHoukes (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Jacob BrummBrumm (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Noah SchachterSchachter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Akram El SallalyEl Sallaly – David PichlerPichler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Florent BaxBax – Hernan CasanovaCasanova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Damien WengerWenger (2-0) – H2H and prediction