Valentin Royer and Tiago Pereira will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Barletta Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.068
Tiago Pereira -> 7.2

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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Tiago Pereira

This will be the 2nd time that Valentin Royer and Tiago Pereira face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Royer (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they played each other, Royer won 6-1 7-5 in the quarter in M25 Tavira back in 2023.

Valentin Royer

Valentin Royer

21 - 6win/loss

Hard
1-2
I Hard
5-3
Clay
15-1
Rank
58
High
56
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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
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Ranked no. 116 (career-high), Valentin got to the 2nd round after beating Abedallah Shelbayh 6-3 6-4.

In the 1st round, Valentin had a good straight sets win against Shelbayh (6-3 6-4). During the match, Royer scored 66 points vs Shelbayh’s 53. Valentin was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Regarding the service games, Royer managed to score 4 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Valentin Royer was very effective on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Valentin broke Shelbayh twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Royer has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (229-122). 15-1 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Royer has an overall119-51 record in the last 8 years on clay.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Kigali 1 Challenger where he defeated Andrej Martin in the final 6-1 6-2 and the Kigali 2 Challenger where he overcame Guy Den Ouden in the final 6-2 6-4.

Valentin has a compiled 21-6 win-loss record in 2025, 15-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Barletta Challenger

Royer has never competed in this tournament before.

Barletta Challenger
Royer's Record

Tiago Pereira

Tiago Pereira

17 - 10win/loss

Hard
10-7
I Hard
4-3
Clay
3-0
Rank
260
High
260
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 54-40 30-15 20-22 4-3 0-0 0-0
2024 45-36 42-27 3-7 0-2 0-0 0-0
2023 57-43 53-37 4-5 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 20-13 20-13 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 436 (career-high), Tiago got to the 2nd round after defeating Samuel Vincent Ruggeri 6-1 6-3, Gianluca Cadenasso 7-5 6-7(3) 6-4 and Mees Rottgering 6-3 4-6 6-1.

In the 1st round, Pereira defeated Rottgering (6-3 4-6 6-1). During the match Pereira scored 90 points vs Rottgering’s 67. Pereira was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Pereira fired 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Tiago Pereira lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Pereira put 47% of his first serves in, winning 91% (32/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (19/39) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Rottgering 5 times after converting 33% of his break points (5/15).

The Portuguese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Faro and M25 Vale do Lobo.

The Portuguese has an overall 17-10 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Barletta Challenger
Pereira's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

V.Royer
T.Pereira
1h:27
1h:27
Time on court​
!
6h:06
6h:06
1h:27
1h:27
Last match​
2h:00
2h:00
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
19
19
Games Played​
77
77
2
2
Set played​​
8
8
66
66
Total points​
284
284
66
66
Avg point​
94.7
94.7
32
32
Winners
94
94
32
32
Avg Winners​
31.3
31.3
48%
48%
Ratio winners
33%
33%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
6
6
4
4
Avg Aces
2
2
0
0
Double Faults
6
6
0
0
Avg Double Faults
2
2
32/40
32/40
1st won total​
94/131
94/131
!
80%
80%
1st won %
!
72%
72%
13/23
13/23
2nd won total​
55/106
55/106
57%
57%
2nd won %
52%
52%
-- Break Points --
2/3
2/3
BP won
16/38
16/38
2/3
2/3
Avg BP won
5.3/12.7
5.3/12.7
!
67%
67%
Won
42%
42%
2
2
Conceded
13
13
2
2
Avg Conceded
4.3
4.3
0
0
Broken
7
7
!
0
0
Avg Broken
2.3
2.3
2
2
Saved
6
6
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Royer Pereira
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 8
Tot Games 19 77
Pts 66-53 284-232
Total Points 119 516
Winners 32 94
%Winners 48% 33%

Royer played 1 match while Pereira competed in 3 matches. Pereira started his run from the qualifications while Royer had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Tiago Pereira conceded 2 sets while Valentin Royer hasn’t conceded a set so far. Royer has played 6 set(s) less than Pereira (2 vs 8). Therefore, Royer played 58 games less than Pereira. Valentin scored 32 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Tiago fired 94 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve Royer Pereira
Aces 4 6
Avg per match 4 2
1st in 40/63 131/237
%1st in 63% 55%
1st pts 32/40 94/131
%1st pts 80% 72%
2nd pts 13/23 55/106
%2nd pts 57% 52%

Royer made 4 aces . Pereira bagged 6 aces (2 per match). Royer won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Pereira won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Royer Pereira
Won 2 16
Converted 2/3 16/38
% Converted 67% 42%
Conceded 2 13
Saved 2 6
% Saved 100% 46%
Times Broken 0 7

The French player broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Valentin quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Tiago broke his opponents 16 times with a 42% conversion rate. Pereira conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 46% of the break points that he conceded.

Royer
R1
Shelbayh		 Total
Score 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 66-53 66-53
Total points 119 119
Winners 32 32
%Winners 48% 48%
SERVE
Aces 4 4
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 40/63 40/63
% 1st in 63% 63%
1st pts 32/40 32/40
% 1st pts 80% 80%
2nd pts 13/23 13/23
% 2nd pts 57% 57%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/3 2/3
Converted % 67% 67%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 2/2 2
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Pereira
Q1
Vincent		 Q3
Cadenasso		 R1
Rottgering		 Total
Score 6-1 6-3 7-5 6-73 6-4 6-3 4-6 6-1
Tot Set 2 3 3 8
Tot Games 16 35 26 77
pts 70-47 124-118 90-67 284-232
Total points 117 242 157 516
Winners 22 40 32 94
%Winners 31% 32% 36% 33%
SERVE
Aces 3 1 2 6
Double Faults 2 1 3 6
1st in 28/51 68/112 35/74 131/237
% 1st in 55% 61% 47% 55%
1st pts 22/28 40/68 32/35 94/131
% 1st pts 79% 59% 91% 72%
2nd pts 14/23 22/44 19/39 55/106
% 2nd pts 61% 50% 49% 52%
Breaks
Won 4 7 5 16
Converted 4/10 7/13 5/15 16/38
Converted % 40% 54% 33% 42%
Conceded 2 7 4 13
Saved 2/2 2/7 2/4 6
Saved % 100% 29% 50% 179%
Times Broken 0 5 2 7

Tennis Scores in Barletta Challenger

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