Radu Albot and Alex Rybakov will clash against each other in the 1st round of the San Diego Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Radu Albot who should win in 3 sets.
Radu Albot -> 1.57
Alex Rybakov -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Radu Albot vs. Alex Rybakov
There is no head to head record between Radu Albot and Alex Rybakov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Radu Albot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-33 | 15-13 | 11-16 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-26 | 12-9 | 17-11 | 4-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-34 | 10-13 | 13-8 | 12-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-30 | 25-14 | 4-6 | 3-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-27 | 4-9 | 2-8 | 13-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 179, Radu will start his run in the San Diego Challenger after he played his last match in Delray Beach where he lost 7-6(4) 4-6 6-3 to Mmoh in the qualifications on the 8th of February.
The Moldovan has a compiled 0-6 win-loss record in 2025, 0-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Albot has an overall 618-478 record. He has a positive 264-169 record on hard.
Previously in the San Diego Challenger
Albot has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Rybakov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-26 | 24-13 | 8-6 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-20 | 11-8 | 12-8 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-25 | 5-8 | 7-9 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-23 | 5-7 | 20-12 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-26 | 4-4 | 35-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 594, the American reached the 1st round after defeating Lucas Renard 7-5 4-6 6-4 and Stefan Dostanic 4-6 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications against Dostanic, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-5 7-5).During the match Rybakov scored less points (1) than Dostanic. In fact, the world no. 179 won 96 points vs Dostanic’s. That means that Rybakov was more focused during the important points. Alex was quite aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Rybakov fired 4 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Alex Rybakov lost the serve 4 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Rybakov put 59% of his first serves in, winning 73% (45/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (20/43) on the 2nd serve. Rybakov broke Dostanic 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Rybakov’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Ithaca.
Rybakov has a composed 8-4 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in San Diego Challenger
- Alex BoltBolt – Tristan BoyerBoyer (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Colton SmithSmith (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Karue SellSell (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Andres AndradeAndrade (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Govind NandaNanda – Terence AtmaneAtmane (7-65 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Stefan DostanicDostanic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alfredo PerezPerez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Govind NandaNanda – Alex BoltBolt (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tyler ZinkZink – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction