Jiri Vesely and Ilia Simakin will face off in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 Jiri Vesely who should win in 3 sets.
Jiri Vesely -> 1.71
Ilia Simakin -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Jiri Vesely vs. Ilia Simakin
There is no head to head record between Jiri Vesely and Ilia Simakin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jiri Vesely
8 - 21win/loss
342
35
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-27 | 6-8 | 7-12 | 6-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-15 | 5-3 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 20-19 | 12-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-27 | 4-5 | 8-12 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 9-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 278, the Czech will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in the Manacor Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Hanfmann in the 1st round on the 27th of August.
Jiri has an aggregate 8-21 win-loss record in 2024, 0-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Prague Challenger where he overcame Gauthier Onclin in the final 6-2 3-6 7-6(3).
Talking about his overall career, Vesely has an overall 432-319 record. He has a positive 127-96 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 62-22 | 55-21 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-19 | 28-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-17 | 24-12 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 471, Ilia got to the 1st round after beating Leonid Sheyngezikht 6-3 6-1 and S Mert Ozdemir 4-6 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications against Mert Ozdemir, The Russian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-2). During the match Simakin scored 92 points vs Mert Ozdemir’s 68. Ilia was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Simakin managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ilia Simakin lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Simakin put 64% of his first serves in, winning 74% (35/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Mert Ozdemir 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ilia started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Ilia’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Aktobe,M15 Tbilisi,M15 Monastir and M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Ilia has an overall 35-13 win-loss record in 2024, 28-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger
- Elias YmerYmer – Cezar CretuCretu (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matej DodigDodig – Tuncay DuranDuran (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elmer MollerElmer – Koray KirciKoray (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Michael GeertsMichael – Mikhail KukushkinMikhail (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Richard BerankisBerankis (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin LockLock – August HolmgrenHolmgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan (0-0) – H2H and prediction