Emil Ruusuvuori and Ilia Simakin will play each other in the 1^st round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. 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 Ilia Simakin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ilia Simakin is the pick to win this match.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.64
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 2.15

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Prediction and head to head Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Ilia Simakin

There is no head to head record between Emil Ruusuvuori and Ilia Simakin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Emil Ruusuvuori

Ranked no. 228, Emil will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Busan Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Chung in the 1^st round on the 15^th of April.

Emil has an aggregate 5-7 win-loss record in 2025, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Emil has an overall 284-184 record. He has a positive 120-65 record on hard.

Previously in the Gwangju Challenger

Ruusuvuori has never competed in this tournament before.

Ilia Simakin

Ranked no. 271 (career-high), Ilia got to the 1^st round after beating Gerard Campana Lee 6-4 6-4 and Viktor Durasovic 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications, Ilia had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (6-2 6-2). During the match Simakin scored 64 points vs Durasovic’s 40. Ilia was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Simakin fired 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ilia Simakin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Simakin broke Durasovic 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Simakin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.

Ilia’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M15 Heraklion.

Ilia has an aggregate 20-6 win-loss record in 2025, 20-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Gwangju Challenger

• Johannus MondayMonday – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hyeon ChungChung – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (7-6⁴ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Adam WaltonWalton – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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