Viktor Durasovic and Ilia Simakin will play each other in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ilia Simakin who should win in 3 sets.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.74
Viktor Durasovic -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Viktor Durasovic vs. Ilia Simakin
There is no head to head record between Viktor Durasovic and Ilia Simakin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Viktor Durasovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-33 | 8-10 | 5-9 | 20-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-33 | 19-10 | 15-15 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-37 | 5-8 | 17-18 | 2-9 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 28-36 | 2-7 | 15-18 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-24 | 2-4 | 13-12 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 244, Durasovic reached the qualifications after defeating Woobin Shin 6-7(3) 7-6(3) 6-0.
In the qualifications against Shin, The Norwegian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 7-63 6-0). During the match, Durasovic scored 117 points vs Shin’s 97. Viktor was pretty aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Regarding the service games, Durasovic managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Viktor Durasovic was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (50/69) of his 1st serve and 53% (23/43) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Norwegian broke Shin 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Durasovic has good record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (302-275). 6-4 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Durasovic has an aggregate 130-89 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Nottingham Challenger where he defeated Henry Searle in the final 7-6(6) 3-6 6-1.
Durasovic has an overall 16-9 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Viktor has never competed in this tournament before.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-21 | 39-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 62-22 | 55-21 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-19 | 28-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-17 | 24-12 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 295, the Russian got to the qualifications after defeating Gerard Campana Lee 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Campana Lee (6-4 6-4). During the match Simakin scored 64 points vs Campana Lee’s 50. Simakin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Simakin scored 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Ilia Simakin was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ilia broke Campana Lee 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Simakin’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M15 Heraklion.
The Russian has a compiled 19-6 win-loss record in 2025, 19-6 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Durasovic | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 20 |
| Pts | 117-97 | 64-50 |
| Total Points | 214 | 114 |
| Winners | 50 | 29 |
| %Winners | 43% | 45% |
Both Durasovic and Simakin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Viktor Durasovic lost 1 set while Ilia Simakin hasn’t conceded a set so far. Durasovic has played 1 set more than Simakin (3 vs 2). Therefore, Durasovic played 12 games more than Simakin. Viktor scored 50 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Ilia fired 29 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Durasovic | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 8 |
| 1st in | 69/112 | 36/52 |
| %1st in | 62% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 50/69 | 29/36 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 23/43 | 10/16 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 63% |
Durasovic scored 8 aces . Simakin struck 8 aces . Durasovic won 72% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Simakin won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Durasovic | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 45% | 60% |
| Conceded | 11 | 2 |
| Saved | 9 | 1 |
| % Saved | 82% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Durasovic broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Norwegian surrendered his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded. Simakin broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Durasovic | |||
| Q1 Shin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-73 7-63 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 117-97 | 117-97 | |
| Total points | 214 | 214 | |
| Winners | 50 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 69/112 | 69/112 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 50/69 | 50/69 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/43 | 23/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Simakin | |||
| Q1 Campana | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 64-50 | 64-50 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/52 | 36/52 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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