Valentin Royer and Radu Mihai Papoe will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Iasi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.57
Radu Mihai Papoe -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Radu Mihai Papoe
There is no head to head record between Valentin Royer and Radu Mihai Papoe since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Valentin Royer
30 - 18win/loss
188
179
LWWLLWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-30 | 6-5 | 32-13 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-15 | 4-4 | 4-3 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 204, the French player will start his run in the Iasi Challenger after he played his last match in the Brasov Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(4) to Cretu in the 2nd round on the 5th of July.
The French player has a composed 30-18 win-loss record in 2024, 22-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Royer’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and the Tunis Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Valentin has an overall 190-104 record. He has a positive 94-47 record on clay.
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Radu Mihai Papoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-10 | 0-0 | 19-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-8 | 0-0 | 19-6 | 13-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-9 | 3-1 | 16-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-11 | 2-1 | 11-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 617, Radu got to the 1st round after defeating Tudor Stefan Gheorghita 6-0 6-0, Robert Strombachs 6-2 6-0 and Valentin Royer .
In the qualifications, Mihai had a good straight sets win against Stefan Gheorghita (6-0 6-0). During the match Mihai scored 51 points vs Stefan Gheorghita’s 18. The Romanian was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Mihai scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Radu Mihai Papoe conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 55% of his first serves in, win 86% (18/21) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Stefan Gheorghita 6 times.
Radu’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Ithaca and M15 Cluj Napoca.
Radu has an overall 13-4 win-loss record in 2024, 10-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWWWWW Tennis Scores in Iasi Challenger
- Dalibor SvrcinaDalibor – Maxime JanvierMaxime (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoVitaliy – Gustavo HeideGustavo (6-7(7) 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Murkel Alejandro Dellien VelascoAlejandro Dellien Velasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Hugo DellienDellien (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian GimaGima – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu Mihai PapoeMihai Papoe – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
