Manuel Guinard and Neil Oberleitner will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Kigali 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Manuel Guinard who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Manuel Guinard is the pick to win this match.
Manuel Guinard -> 1.59
Neil Oberleitner -> 2.24

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Prediction and head to head Manuel Guinard vs. Neil Oberleitner

There is no head to head record between Manuel Guinard and Neil Oberleitner since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Manuel Guinard

Ranked no. 287, the French player will start his run in the Kigali 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Pau Challenger where he lost 2-3 ret. to Blockx in the 1^st round on the 17^th of February.

Manuel has a compiled 3-7 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on clay.

Talking about his overall career, Guinard has an overall 345-257 record. He has a positive 225-140 record on clay.

Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Neil Oberleitner

Ranked no. 440, Oberleitner reached the 1^st round after defeating Claude Ishimwe 6-0 6-1 and Daniel Michalski 6-3 7-6(4).

In the qualifications, Neil had a good straight sets win against Michalski (6-3 7-6⁴). During the match Oberleitner scored 73 points vs Michalski’s 62. Neil was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Oberleitner struck 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Neil Oberleitner was very efficient on serve to win 83% (34/41) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Neil broke Michalski once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

Oberleitner has a compiled 7-5 win-loss record in 2025, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Kigali 1 Challenger

• Max HoukesHoukes – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Gabriele PennafortiPennaforti (4-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Andrea PicchionePicchione (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Calvin HemeryHemery – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Manuel GuinardGuinard – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zdenek KolarKolar – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clement TaburTabur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Dominik KellovskyKellovsky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Jesper De JongDe Jong – Andrej MartinMartin (1-1) – H2H and prediction