Vit Kopriva and Ilia Simakin will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Pune Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vit Kopriva who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Vit Kopriva is the pick to win this match.
Vit Kopriva -> 1.6
Ilia Simakin -> 2.22

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Prediction and head to head Vit Kopriva vs. Ilia Simakin

There is no head to head record between Vit Kopriva and Ilia Simakin since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Vit Kopriva

Ranked no. 120, Vit will start his run in the Pune Challenger after he played his last match in the New Delhi Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-1 to Jacquet in the semifinal on the 15^th of February.

Kopriva has a compiled 10-4 win-loss record in 2025, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Vit’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Czech has an overall 356-244 record. He has a positive 75-51 record on hard.

Previously in the Pune Challenger

Vit has never competed in this tournament before.

Ilia Simakin

Ranked no. 308 (career-high), Simakin reached the 1^st round after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 6-4 6-3 and Jiri Vesely 7-5 6-1.

In the qualifications, Simakin had a good straight sets win against Vesely (7-5 6-1). During the match Simakin scored 75 points vs Vesely’s 49. Ilia was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Simakin scored 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ilia Simakin was very efficient on serve to win 88% (28/32) of his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ilia broke Vesely 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.

Ilia’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.

Simakin has a composed 7-1 win-loss record in 2025, 7-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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• Valentin VacherotVacherot – Elmer MollerMoller (5-7 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

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