Max Houkes and Eliakim Coulibaly will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Kigali 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 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 Max Houkes who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Max Houkes is the pick to win this match.
Max Houkes -> 1.44
Eliakim Coulibaly -> 2.625

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Prediction and head to head Max Houkes vs. Eliakim Coulibaly

There is no head to head record between Max Houkes and Eliakim Coulibaly since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Max Houkes

Ranked no. 303, Houkes reached the 2^nd round after defeating Maxime Janvier 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Max had a good straight sets win against Janvier (6-3 6-4). During the match, Houkes scored 67 points vs Janvier’s 57. Houkes was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Houkes struck 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Max Houkes lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Houkes put 63% of his first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (9/23) on the 2nd serve. Houkes broke Janvier 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).

Houkes has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 66% of his matches (255-134). 6-5 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Houkes has a composed241-116 record in the last 8 years on clay.

Max has an overall 6-6 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger

Eliakim Coulibaly

Ranked no. 338, Eliakim got to the 2^nd round after beating Daniel Michalski 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Coulibaly had a good straight sets win against Michalski (6-4 6-4). During the match Coulibaly scored 59 points vs Michalski’s 54. Eliakim was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Coulibaly blasted 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Eliakim Coulibaly was very efficient on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Ivorian broke Michalski twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Eliakim has a compiled 5-3 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger

The Ivorian has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Houkes	Coulibaly
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	20
Pts	67-57	59-54
Total Points	124	113
Winners	31	32
%Winners	46%	54%

Both Houkes and Coulibaly played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Houkes and Coulibaly have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Houkes played 1 game less than Coulibaly. The Dutch scored 31 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Eliakim struck 32 winners (54%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Houkes	Coulibaly
Aces	4	7
Avg per match	4	7
1st in	39/62	43/63
%1st in	63%	68%
1st pts	31/39	32/43
%1st pts	79%	74%
2nd pts	9/23	13/20
%2nd pts	39%	65%

Houkes bagged 4 aces . Coulibaly scored 7 aces . Houkes won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 39% of the points. On the other side, Coulibaly won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Houkes	Coulibaly
Won	4	2
Converted	4/12	2/3
% Converted	33%	67%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3	4
% Saved	75%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

The Dutch broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Max lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Coulibaly broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Eliakim was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Houkes
	R1 Janvier	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	67-57	67-57
Total points	124	124
Winners	31	31
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	39/62	39/62
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	31/39	31/39
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	9/23	9/23
% 2nd pts	39%	39%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/12	4/12
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Coulibaly
	R1 Michalski	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	59-54	59-54
Total points	113	113
Winners	32	32
%Winners	54%	54%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	43/63	43/63
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	32/43	32/43
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	13/20	13/20
% 2nd pts	65%	65%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	4/4	4
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Kigali 1 Challenger

• Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Manuel GuinardGuinard (7-5 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Dominik KellovskyKellovsky (7-6¹¹ 6-2) – See score progression
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Guy Den OudenDen Ouden – Clement TaburTabur (7-6³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Calvin HemeryHemery (6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Eliakim CoulibalyCoulibaly – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrej MartinMartin – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Mathys ErhardErhard – Maximus JonesJones (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Gabriele PennafortiPennaforti (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Andrea PicchionePicchione (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Max HoukesHoukes – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrej MartinMartin – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-6(1) 6-3) – See score progression
• Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Calvin HemeryHemery (6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Eliakim CoulibalyCoulibaly – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Guy Den OudenDen Ouden – Clement TaburTabur (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Andrej MartinMartin – Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Carlos TabernerTaberner (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mathys ErhardErhard – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Max HoukesHoukes – (0-0) – H2H and prediction