Bernard Tomic and Nicholas David Ionel will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Nicholas David Ionel who should win in 3 sets.
Nicholas David Ionel -> 1.77
Bernard Tomic -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Bernard Tomic vs. Nicholas David Ionel
There is no head to head record between Bernard Tomic and Nicholas David Ionel since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Bernard Tomic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-33 | 29-23 | 6-7 | 2-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 50-29 | 34-19 | 12-5 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-27 | 35-19 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-12 | 24-7 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-12 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 216, Bernard will start his run in the Kigali 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Bengaluru Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-4 6-4 to Holt in the 2nd round on the 27th of February.
Tomic has an overall 4-6 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, The Australian has an overall 460-348 record. He has a negative 61-80 record on clay.
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
Tomic has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicholas David Ionel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-26 | 0-0 | 34-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 74-34 | 0-2 | 74-31 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-38 | 7-7 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-33 | 17-9 | 48-20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-33 | 14-4 | 33-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 383, the Romanian reached the 1st round after beating Matteo Covato 6-4 6-4 and Maximus Jones 6-2 6-7(1) 6-3.
In the qualifications, Nicholas defeated Jones (6-2 6-71 6-3). During the match David scored 116 points vs Jones’s 92. David was exceptionally aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Talking about serving, David fired 5 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nicholas David Ionel lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, David put 81% of his first serves in, winning 81% (56/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Nicholas broke Jones 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nicholas started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
The Romanian has a compiled 6-4 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Kigali 2 Challenger
- Guy Den OudenDen Ouden – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-5 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max HoukesHoukes – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime ChazalChazal – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Clement TaburTabur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Andrej MartinMartin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Max HoukesHoukes (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PicchionePicchione – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction