Valentin Royer and Pol Martin Tiffon will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Madrid Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4:00 PM on PISTA MERCEDES-BENZ. 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.
Valentin Royer -> 1.27
Pol Martin Tiffon -> 3.48
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Pol Martin Tiffon
This will be the 2nd time that Valentin Royer and Pol Martin Tiffon square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Martin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Martin won 7-5 1-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in M25 Uriage back in 2021.
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. 116 (career-high), the French player will start his run in the Madrid Challenger after he played his last match in the Barletta Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-3 to Svrcina in the semifinal on the 5th of April.
Valentin has a compiled 23-7 win-loss record in 2025, 17-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season 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 overcame Guy Den Ouden in the final 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Royer has an overall 231-123 record. He has a positive 121-52 record on clay.
Previously in the Madrid Challenger
Royer has never competed in this tournament before.
Pol Martin Tiffon
12 - 9win/loss
370
197
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-23 | 3-4 | 17-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 69-27 | 4-2 | 65-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-25 | 5-2 | 30-20 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 0-1 | 38-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-27 | 0-0 | 39-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 208 (career-high), the Spaniard will start his run in the Madrid Challenger after he played his last match in the Menorca Challenger where he lost 6-0 6-4
to Gaubas in the final on the 6th of April.Martin has an aggregate 12-9 win-loss record in 2025, 8-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Spaniard’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Badalona and the Menorca Challenger.
In terms of his career, The Spaniard has an overall 310-177 record. He has a positive 285-156 record on clay.
Tennis Scores in Madrid Challenger
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Tristan BoyerBoyer (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-3 6-75 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Borna CoricCoric – Alexander BlockxBlockx (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Jakub PaulPaul (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Hugo DellienDellien (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Miguel DamasDamas – Norbert GombosGombos (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon – Valentin RoyerRoyer (1-0) – H2H and prediction