Valentin Royer and Ignacio Buse will face off in the 1^st round of the Oeiras 3 Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.68
Ignacio Buse -> 2.08

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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Ignacio Buse

This will be the 2^nd time that Valentin Royer and Ignacio Buse fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Royer (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they squared off, Royer won 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Barcelona Challenger back in 2024.

Valentin Royer

Ranked no. 209, the French player will start his run in the Oeiras 3 Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 7-6(1) 6-3 to Moura Monteiro in the qualifications on the 8^th of January.

Valentin has an overall 1-2 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.

Talking about his overall career, Valentin has an overall 209-118 record. He has a positive 51-39 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Oeiras 3 Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.

Ignacio Buse

Ranked no. 236, Buse got to the 1^st round after defeating Unknown Player bye and Ivan Gakhov 6-2 6-7(6) 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Peruvian defeated Gakhov (6-2 6-7⁶ 6-3). During the match Buse scored 105 points vs Gakhov’s 89. Ignacio was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Buse scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Ignacio Buse lost the serve 4 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Buse put 50% of his first serves in, winning 66% (33/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (25/50) on the 2nd serve. The Peruvian broke Gakhov 8 times after converting 67% of his break points (8/12).

The Peruvian has a compiled 1-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Oeiras 3 Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2025. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Oeiras 3 Challenger

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• Alexander BlockxBlockx – Alexander RitschardRitschard (7-6³ 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Clement ChidekhChidekh (6-4 4-6 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Raphael CollignonCollignon (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-3 2-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Lukas KleinKlein (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Gastao EliasElias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jesper De JongDe Jong – Liam DraxlDraxl (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – (1-0) – H2H and prediction