Gijs Brouwer and Ilia Simakin will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 226, Gijs got to the 2^nd round after defeating Denis Yevseyev 6-4 2-1 ret..

In the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 471, the Russian reached the 2^nd 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 1^st 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

Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger

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• Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elmer MollerMoller – Michael GeertsGeerts (7-6⁶ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matej DodigDodig – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-3 3-6 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings

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