Valentin Royer and Dalibor Svrcina will square off in the semifinal of the Barletta Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.62
Dalibor Svrcina -> 2.18

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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Dalibor Svrcina

This will be the 2^nd time that Valentin Royer and Dalibor Svrcina face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Svrcina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Svrcina won 6-7(7) 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in the Prostejov Challenger back in 2024.

Valentin Royer

Ranked no. 116 (career-high), Royer reached the semifinal after defeating Abedallah Shelbayh 6-3 6-4, Tiago Pereira 6-4 6-3 and Enrico Dalla Valle 7-6(2) 6-3.

In the quarter, Valentin had a good straight sets win against Dalla Valle (7-6² 6-3). During the match, Royer scored 79 points vs Dalla Valle’s 62. Royer was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Royer managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Valentin Royer lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Royer put 77% of his first serves in, winning 70% (35/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the 2nd serve. Royer broke Dalla Valle 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The French player hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points he played.

Royer has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (231-122). 17-1 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Royer has an aggregate121-51 win-loss 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 beat Andrej Martin in the final 6-1 6-2 and the Kigali 2 Challenger where he defeated Guy Den Ouden in the final 6-2 6-4.

Valentin has an aggregate 23-6 win-loss record in 2025, 17-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Barletta Challenger

Royer has never competed in this tournament before.

Dalibor Svrcina

Ranked no. 154 (career-high), Dalibor got to the semifinal after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 6-3 6-4, Lilian Marmousez w/o and Michael Geerts 6-3 6-1.

In the quarter, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Geerts (6-3 6-1). During the match Svrcina scored 62 points vs Geerts’s 40. Svrcina was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Svrcina was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Dalibor Svrcina lost the serve once. Furthermore, Svrcina put 69% of his first serves in, winning 76% (25/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Svrcina broke Geerts 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Svrcina hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Pune Challenger where he beat Brandon Holt in the final 7-6(3) 6-1.

Svrcina has an aggregate 20-8 win-loss record in 2025, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Royer	Svrcina
Match played	3	2
Tot Set	6	4
Tot Games	60	35
Pts	217-179	135-98
Total Points	396	233
Winners	102	51
%Winners	47%	38%

Royer played 3 matches while Svrcina competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Royer has played 2 sets more than Svrcina (6 vs 4). Therefore, Royer played 25 games more than Svrcina. The French player scored 102 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Dalibor recorded 51 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Royer	Svrcina
Aces	12	0
Avg per match	4	0
1st in	137/195	73/106
%1st in	70%	69%
1st pts	102/137	51/73
%1st pts	74%	70%
2nd pts	33/58	17/33
%2nd pts	57%	52%

Royer scored 12 aces (4 per match). Svrcina didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Royer won 74% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Svrcina won 70% of the points behind 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	Svrcina
Won	8	10
Converted	8/18	10/16
% Converted	44%	63%
Conceded	11	9
Saved	9	6
% Saved	82%	67%
Times Broken	2	3

Valentin broke his opponents 8 times with a 44% conversion rate. The French player dropped his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded. Dalibor broke his opponents 10 times with a 63% conversion rate. Dalibor conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Royer
	R1 Shelbayh	R2 Pereira	1/4 Dalla Valle	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	6-4 6-3	7-62 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	19	19	22	60
pts	66-53	72-64	79-62	217-179
Total points	119	136	141	396
Winners	32	35	35	102
%Winners	48%	49%	44%	47%
SERVE
Aces	4	3	5	12
Double Faults	0	1	3	4
1st in	40/63	47/67	50/65	137/195
% 1st in	63%	70%	77%	70%
1st pts	32/40	35/47	35/50	102/137
% 1st pts	80%	74%	70%	74%
2nd pts	13/23	12/20	8/15	33/58
% 2nd pts	57%	60%	53%	57%
Breaks
Won	2	2	4	8
Converted	2/3	2/7	4/8	8/18
Converted %	67%	29%	50%	44%
Conceded	2	3	6	11
Saved	2/2	3/3	4/6	9
Saved %	100%	100%	67%	89%
Times Broken	0	0	2	2

Svrcina
	R1 Giustino	R2 Marmousez	1/4 Geerts	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	w/o	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	–	2	4
Tot Games	19	–	16	35
pts	73-58	–	62-40	135-98
Total points	131	–	102	233
Winners	26	–	25	51
%Winners	36%	–	40%	38%
SERVE
Aces	0	–	0	0
Double Faults	2	–	1	3
1st in	40/58	–	33/48	73/106
% 1st in	69%	–	69%	69%
1st pts	26/40	–	25/33	51/73
% 1st pts	65%	–	76%	70%
2nd pts	10/18	–	7/15	17/33
% 2nd pts	56%	–	47%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	–	5	10
Converted	5/9	–	5/7	10/16
Converted %	56%	–	71%	63%
Conceded	8	–	1	9
Saved	6/8	–	0/1	6
Saved %	75%	–	0%	25%
Times Broken	2	–	1	3

Tennis Scores in Barletta Challenger

• Mats Hermans/Tiago PereiraHermans/Tiago Pereira – Simone Agostini/Gianluca CadenassoAgostini/Gianluca Cadenasso (2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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