Gijs Brouwer and Ilia Simakin will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on LIMAK COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gijs Brouwer who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gijs Brouwer is the pick to win this match.
Gijs Brouwer -> 1.32
Ilia Simakin -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Gijs Brouwer vs. Ilia Simakin
There is no head to head record between Gijs Brouwer and Ilia Simakin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Gijs Brouwer
24 - 25win/loss
179
114
LWWWWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-27 | 14-12 | 6-5 | 4-5 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-34 | 5-8 | 3-6 | 12-15 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-27 | 12-5 | 13-5 | 14-12 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-25 | 9-5 | 12-10 | 21-10 | 0-0 | 5-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 13-4 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 226, Gijs got to the 2nd round after defeating Denis Yevseyev 6-4 2-1 ret..
In the 1st round against Yevseyev, Brouwer had a free pass after Yevseyev retired on a 6-4 2-1 . scoreline.
Brouwer has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (305-216). 7-10 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Brouwer has an overall92-59 record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Dutch’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Noumea Challenger.
The Dutch has an aggregate 24-25 win-loss record in 2024, 7-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-20 | 47-19 | 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, the Russian reached the 2nd round after beating Leonid Sheyngezikht 6-3 6-1, S Mert Ozdemir 4-6 6-1 6-2 and Jiri Vesely 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Vesely (6-1 6-4). During the match Simakin scored 71 points vs Vesely’s 50. Ilia was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Simakin bagged 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ilia Simakin conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Simakin put 71% of his first serves in, winning 85% (35/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Simakin broke Vesely 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Simakin’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Aktobe,M15 Tbilisi,M15 Monastir and M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Ilia has an overall 36-13 win-loss record in 2024, 29-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Brouwer | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 58 |
| Pts | 53-41 | 224-154 |
| Total Points | 94 | 378 |
| Winners | 18 | 91 |
| %Winners | 34% | 41% |
Brouwer played 1 match while Simakin competed in 3 matches. Simakin started his run from the qualifications while Brouwer had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Ilia Simakin lost 1 set while Gijs Brouwer hasn’t dropped a set so far. Brouwer has played 4 set(s) less than Simakin (3 vs 7). Therefore, Brouwer played 45 games less than Simakin. Gijs scored 18 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Simakin managed to score 91 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Brouwer | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 22 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 7.3 |
| 1st in | 22/32 | 112/176 |
| %1st in | 69% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 18/22 | 91/112 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 5/10 | 32/64 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 50% |
Brouwer made 6 aces . Simakin blasted 22 aces (7.3 per match). Brouwer won 82% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Simakin won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Brouwer | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 14 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 14/34 |
| % Converted | 43% | 41% |
| Conceded | 1 | 17 |
| Saved | 0 | 13 |
| % Saved | 0% | 76% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Brouwer broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Gijs dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponents 14 times with a 41% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 76% of the break points that he conceded.
| Brouwer | |||
| R1 Yevseyev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 2-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 53-41 | 53-41 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 22/32 | 22/32 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 18/22 | 18/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Simakin | |||||
| Q1 Sheyngezikht |
Q3 Mert |
R1 Vesely |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 4-6 6-1 6-2 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 25 | 17 | 58 | |
| pts | 61-36 | 92-68 | 71-50 | 224-154 | |
| Total points | 97 | 160 | 121 | 378 | |
| Winners | 21 | 35 | 35 | 91 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 38% | 49% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 9 | 5 | 8 | 22 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 24/44 | 47/74 | 41/58 | 112/176 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 64% | 71% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 35/47 | 35/41 | 91/112 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 74% | 85% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 13/27 | 8/17 | 32/64 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 48% | 47% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 6/12 | 3/10 | 14/34 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 50% | 30% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 8 | 5 | 17 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 5/8 | 5/5 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 63% | 100% | 238% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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