Marek Gengel and Michael Geerts will square off in the 1^st round of the Pune Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Geerts who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Michael Geerts is the pick to win this match.
Michael Geerts -> 1.71
Marek Gengel -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Marek Gengel vs. Michael Geerts

This will be the 3^rd time that Marek Gengel and Michael Geerts square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Gengel and Geerts (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Geerts won 6-3 6-0 in the semifinal in M25 Castelo Branco back in 2024.

Marek Gengel

Ranked no. 240, Marek will start his run in the Pune Challenger after he played his last match in the New Delhi Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-2 to Ilagan in the 1^st round on the 11^th of February.

The Czech has a composed 5-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Czech’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Brisbane 1 Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Marek has an overall 325-227 record. He has a positive 258-123 record on hard.

Previously in the Pune Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See his history.

Michael Geerts

Ranked no. 311, the Belgian got to the 1^st round after beating Yurii Dzhavakian 6-0 6-2 and Justin Engel 7-6(4) 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Belgian had a good straight sets win against Engel (7-6⁴ 6-2). During the match Geerts scored 66 points vs Engel’s 52. Geerts was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Geerts fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Michael Geerts was pretty efficient on serve to win 91% (30/33) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Geerts was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Engel twice.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Geerts started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 60% of the points he played.

Michael has an overall 6-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Pune Challenger

• Valentin VacherotVacherot – Elmer MollerMoller (5-7 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – August HolmgrenHolmgren (4-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Karan SinghSingh (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael GeertsGeerts – Marek GengelGengel (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Bernard TomicTomic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction