Ergi Kirkin and Aryan Shah will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Abidjan 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTRAL KAYDAN. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ergi Kirkin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ergi Kirkin is the pick to win this match.
Ergi Kirkin -> 1.85
Aryan Shah -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Ergi Kirkin vs. Aryan Shah

There is no head to head record between Ergi Kirkin and Aryan Shah since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Ergi Kirkin

Ranked no. 321, Ergi reached the 2^nd round after beating Nicolas Jadoun 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Kirkin had a good straight sets win against Jadoun (6-1 6-4). During the match, Kirkin scored 57 points vs Jadoun’s 35. Ergi was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kirkin fired 10 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Ergi Kirkin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kirkin broke Jadoun 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Kirkin has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (268-184). 5-6 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kirkin has a compiled 67-49 record in the last years on hard.

Ergi has an aggregate 10-11 win-loss record in 2025, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Abidjan 2 Challenger

Aryan Shah

Ranked no. 471, Shah got to the 2^nd round after beating Taha Baadi 7-6(5) 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Shah had a good straight sets win against Baadi (7-6⁵ 6-2). During the match Shah scored 76 points vs Baadi’s 65. Aryan was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Shah struck 12 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Aryan Shah lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Shah put 51% of his first serves in, winning 78% (28/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Aryan broke Baadi 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

The Indian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Ahmedabad.

Aryan has a composed 14-8 win-loss record in 2025, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kirkin	Shah
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	21
Pts	57-35	76-65
Total Points	92	141
Winners	22	28
%Winners	39%	37%

Both Kirkin and Shah played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kirkin and Shah have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kirkin played 4 games less than Shah. Kirkin scored 22 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Indian struck 28 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kirkin	Shah
Aces	10	12
Avg per match	10	12
1st in	29/48	36/70
%1st in	60%	51%
1st pts	22/29	28/36
%1st pts	76%	78%
2nd pts	14/19	17/34
%2nd pts	74%	50%

Kirkin managed to score 10 aces . Shah recorded 12 aces . Kirkin won 76% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Shah won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kirkin	Shah
Won	4	3
Converted	4/5	3/10
% Converted	80%	30%
Conceded	3	4
Saved	2	3
% Saved	67%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Ergi broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Turk conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Indian broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Shah conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Kirkin
	R1 Jadoun	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	57-35	57-35
Total points	92	92
Winners	22	22
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	29/48	29/48
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	22/29	22/29
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	14/19	14/19
% 2nd pts	74%	74%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Shah
	R1 Baadi	Total
Score	7-65 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	76-65	76-65
Total points	141	141
Winners	28	28
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	36/70	36/70
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	28/36	28/36
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	17/34	17/34
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/10	3/10
Converted %	30%	30%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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