Ilia Simakin and Kokoro Isomura will face off in the qualifications of the Bengaluru Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play 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 Ilia Simakin who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ilia Simakin is the pick to win this match.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.25
Kokoro Isomura -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Ilia Simakin vs. Kokoro Isomura

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

Ilia Simakin

Ranked no. 308 (career-high), the Russian reached the qualifications after defeating Ryuki Matsuda 7-6(6) 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Matsuda (7-6⁶ 6-4). During the match, Simakin scored 71 points vs Matsuda’s 67. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Simakin recorded 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ilia Simakin lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Simakin put 68% of his first serves in, winning 78% (35/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. Ilia broke Matsuda 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Simakin has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 67% of his matches (128-62). 10-2 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Simakin has an overall117-53 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.

Simakin’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.

Simakin has an overall 10-2 win-loss record in 2025, 10-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Bengaluru Challenger

Simakin has never competed in this tournament before.

Kokoro Isomura

Ranked no. 454, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Adil Kalyanpur 7-6(2) 6-0.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Kalyanpur (7-6² 6-0). During the match Isomura scored 70 points vs Kalyanpur’s 45. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Isomura fired 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Kokoro Isomura was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Isomura broke Kalyanpur 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

The Japanese has a composed 6-3 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Simakin	Isomura
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	19
Pts	71-67	70-45
Total Points	138	115
Winners	35	26
%Winners	49%	37%

Both Simakin and Isomura played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Simakin and Isomura have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Simakin played 4 games more than Isomura. Ilia scored 35 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Isomura made 26 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Simakin	Isomura
Aces	6	2
Avg per match	6	2
1st in	45/66	33/61
%1st in	68%	54%
1st pts	35/45	26/33
%1st pts	78%	79%
2nd pts	9/21	16/28
%2nd pts	43%	57%

Simakin managed to score 6 aces . Isomura made 2 aces . Simakin won 78% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Isomura won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Simakin	Isomura
Won	3	4
Converted	3/6	4/5
% Converted	50%	80%
Conceded	3	4
Saved	1	3
% Saved	33%	75%
Times Broken	2	1

The Russian broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Ilia lost his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Isomura broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Isomura conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Simakin
	Q1 Matsuda	Total
Score	7-66 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	71-67	71-67
Total points	138	138
Winners	35	35
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	45/66	45/66
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	35/45	35/45
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	9/21	9/21
% 2nd pts	43%	43%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1/3	1
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	2	2

Isomura
	Q1 Kalyanpur	Total
Score	7-62 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	70-45	70-45
Total points	115	115
Winners	26	26
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	33/61	33/61
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	26/33	26/33
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	16/28	16/28
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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