Eliakim Coulibaly and Kirill Kivattsev will face off in the 2nd round of the Abidjan 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on CENTRAL KAYDAN. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Eliakim Coulibaly who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Eliakim Coulibaly is the pick to win this match.
Eliakim Coulibaly -> 1.533
Kirill Kivattsev -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Eliakim Coulibaly vs. Kirill Kivattsev
There is no head to head record between Eliakim Coulibaly and Kirill Kivattsev since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Eliakim Coulibaly
6 - 7win/loss
324
323
WLLLLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6-7 | 3-2 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 62-23 | 40-10 | 10-5 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 36-17 | 0-0 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-16 | 32-10 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-11 | 28-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 324, Coulibaly reached the 2nd round after beating Florent Bax 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Eliakim had a good straight sets win against Bax (6-2 6-4). During the match, Coulibaly scored 73 points vs Bax’s 56. Coulibaly was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Coulibaly recorded 9 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Eliakim Coulibaly lost the serve twice and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Coulibaly put 64% of his first serves in, winning 74% (32/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (8/24) on the 2nd serve. Coulibaly broke Bax 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).
Coulibaly has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 68% of his matches (178-85). 3-2 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Coulibaly has an aggregate142-53 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Ivorian has an overall 6-7 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Abidjan 2 Challenger
Kirill Kivattsev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-10 | 13-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-29 | 0-0 | 30-21 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 4-3 |
| 2023 | 51-32 | 8-5 | 29-18 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 4-3 |
| 2022 | 27-27 | 11-8 | 13-15 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-15 | 6-6 | 6-7 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 533, Kivattsev got to the 2nd round after beating Kris Van Wyk 7-5 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Van Wyk (7-5 7-5). During the match Kivattsev scored 77 points vs Van Wyk’s 68. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Kivattsev managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Kirill Kivattsev lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kivattsev put 56% of his first serves in, winning 88% (35/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. Kirill broke Van Wyk 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Kirill’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
Kivattsev has a compiled 13-10 win-loss record in 2025, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Coulibaly | Kivattsev |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 24 |
| Pts | 73-56 | 77-68 |
| Total Points | 129 | 145 |
| Winners | 32 | 35 |
| %Winners | 44% | 45% |
Both Coulibaly and Kivattsev played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Coulibaly and Kivattsev have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Coulibaly played 6 games less than Kivattsev. Eliakim scored 32 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Kirill managed to score 35 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Coulibaly | Kivattsev |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 7 |
| 1st in | 43/67 | 40/72 |
| %1st in | 64% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 32/43 | 35/40 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 8/24 | 16/32 |
| %2nd pts | 33% | 50% |
Coulibaly scored 9 aces . Kivattsev scored 7 aces . Coulibaly won 74% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 33% of the points. On the other side, Kivattsev won 88% of the points behind 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 | Coulibaly | Kivattsev |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/13 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 38% | 50% |
| Conceded | 12 | 4 |
| Saved | 10 | 3 |
| % Saved | 83% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Eliakim broke his opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Eliakim conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Kivattsev broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kirill conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Coulibaly | |||
| R1 Bax |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 73-56 | 73-56 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 43/67 | 43/67 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 32/43 | 32/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/24 | 8/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 10/12 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kivattsev | |||
| R1 Van |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 77-68 | 77-68 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 40/72 | 40/72 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 35/40 | 35/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/32 | 16/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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