Valentin Royer and Oriol Roca Batalla will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am 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 Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.
Valentin Royer -> 1.47
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 2.53
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Oriol Roca Batalla
This will be the 3rd time that Valentin Royer and Oriol Roca Batalla clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Roca Batalla (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Roca Batalla won 7-6(5) 7-5 in the final in the Tunis Challenger back in 2024.
Valentin Royer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61-31 | 16-8 | 31-11 | 10-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-30 | 6-5 | 32-13 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 151 (career-high), the French player will start his run in the Kigali 2 Challenger after he won the title in the Kigali 1 Challenger after beating 6-1 6-2 Martin in the final.
Valentin has a compiled 11-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Kigali 1 Challenger where he defeated Andrej Martin in the final 6-1 6-2.
Valentin won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Royer has an overall 219-121 record. He has a positive 109-50 record on clay.
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Oriol Roca Batalla
0 - 2win/loss
505
150
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-18 | 0-1 | 20-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-34 | 5-7 | 27-25 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-38 | 8-4 | 42-34 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-26 | 0-0 | 50-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-21 | 0-1 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 250, Roca Batalla will start his run in the Kigali 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Kigali 1 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Pavlovic in the 1st round on the 25th of February.
The Spaniard has a compiled 0-2 win-loss record in 2025, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.In terms of his career, Roca Batalla has an overall 592-363 record. He has a positive 504-296 record on clay.
Tennis Scores in Kigali 2 Challenger
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Yanki ErelErel (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Bernard TomicTomic (6-4 7-69) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriele PennafortiPennaforti – Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-2 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Carlos TabernerTaberner (7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Andrea PicchionePicchione (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Andrej MartinMartin (7-66 6-75 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Eliakim CoulibalyCoulibaly (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Ivan GakhovGakhov (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Clement TaburTabur – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-5 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Guy Den OudenDen Ouden – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max HoukesHoukes – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Clement TaburTabur – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Max HoukesHoukes (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-1) – H2H and prediction