Michael Geerts and Justin Engel will face off in the qualifications of the Pune Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Justin Engel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Justin Engel is the pick to win this match.
Justin Engel -> 1.86
Michael Geerts -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Justin Engel
This will be the 2nd time that Michael Geerts and Justin Engel fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Geerts (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Geerts won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in the Heilbronn Challenger back in 2024.
Michael Geerts
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 50-37 | 18-11 | 10-12 | 17-13 | 0-1 | 5-0 |
| 2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 297,he will start his run in the Pune Challenger after he played his last match in the Pune Challenger where he defeated 6-0 6-2 to Dzhavakian in the qualifications on the 16th of February.
Michael has a composed 4-5 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Michael has an overall 364-276 record. He has a positive 165-102 record on hard.
Previously in the Pune Challenger
Geerts has never competed in this tournament before.
Justin Engel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-7 | 1-3 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 8-1 |
| 2024 | 37-17 | 4-3 | 32-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-12 | 0-0 | 11-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 350, Justin reached the qualifications after beating Andre Ilagan 7-6(10) 4-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, Justin defeated Ilagan (7-610 4-6 6-4).During the match Engel scored less points (6) than Ilagan. In fact, the world no. 297 won 102 points vs Ilagan’s. That means that Engel was more focused during the important points. The German was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Engel made 11 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Justin Engel lost the serve 5 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Engel put 57% of his first serves in, winning 64% (41/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (23/48) on the 2nd serve. Engel broke Ilagan 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Justin’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Cadolzburg.
The German has a compiled 9-4 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Geerts | Engel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 33 |
| Pts | 57-31 | 102-108 |
| Total Points | 88 | 210 |
| Winners | 17 | 41 |
| %Winners | 30% | 40% |
Both Geerts and Engel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Justin Engel surrendered 1 set while Michael Geerts hasn’t dropped a set so far. Geerts has played 1 set(s) less than Engel (2 vs 3). Therefore, Geerts played 19 games less than Engel. Geerts scored 17 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Justin made 41 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Geerts | Engel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 11 |
| 1st in | 22/40 | 64/112 |
| %1st in | 55% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 17/22 | 41/64 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 23/48 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 48% |
Geerts managed to score 3 aces . Engel struck 11 aces . Geerts won 77% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Engel won 64% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Geerts | Engel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 63% | 56% |
| Conceded | 0 | 9 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 44% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Michael broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Michael pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The German broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Justin conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded.
| Geerts | ||
| Total | ||
|---|---|---|
| Score | ||
| Tot Set | 0 | |
| Tot Games | 0 | |
| pts | 0-0 | |
| Total points | 0 | |
| Winners | 0 | |
| %Winners | 0% | |
| SERVE | ||
| Aces | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | |
| 1st in | 0/0 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | |
| 1st pts | 0/0 | |
| % 1st pts | % | |
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | |
| Breaks | ||
| Won | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/0 | |
| Converted % | 0% | |
| Conceded | 0 | |
| Saved | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | |
| Engel | |||
| Q1 Ilagan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-610 4-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 33 | 33 | |
| pts | 102-108 | 102-108 | |
| Total points | 210 | 210 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 64/112 | 64/112 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 41/64 | 41/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/48 | 23/48 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 4/9 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 44% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
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