Calvin Hemery and Yanki Erel will play each other in the 1^st round of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Calvin Hemery who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Calvin Hemery is the pick to win this match.
Calvin Hemery -> 1.25
Yanki Erel -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Calvin Hemery vs. Yanki Erel

There is no head to head record between Calvin Hemery and Yanki Erel since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Calvin Hemery

Ranked no. 175, Calvin will start his run in the Kigali 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Kigali 1 Challenger where he lost 6-4 2-0 ret. to Neuchrist in the 1^st round on the 25^th of February.

Hemery has a compiled 7-8 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Hemery’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Brazzaville Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Calvin has an overall 397-281 record. He has a positive 204-131 record on clay.

Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024 and 2024. See his history.

Yanki Erel

Ranked no. 606, the Turk got to the 1^st round after beating Alexander Donski 7-6(3) 6-3 and Zdenek Kolar 7-6(5) 6-2.

In the qualifications, Erel had a good straight sets win against Kolar (7-6⁵ 6-2). During the match Erel scored 69 points vs Kolar’s 57. Erel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Erel managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Yanki Erel was quite effective on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Turk broke Kolar 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Yanki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Yanki has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger

Erel has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Kigali 2 Challenger

• 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
• Guy Den OudenDen Ouden – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-2 6-2) – 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