Timofey Skatov and Justin Engel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Francavilla Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Timofey Skatov who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Timofey Skatov is the pick to win this match.
Timofey Skatov -> 1.4
Justin Engel -> 2.77

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Prediction and head to head Timofey Skatov vs. Justin Engel

There is no head to head record between Timofey Skatov and Justin Engel since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Timofey Skatov

Timofey Skatov

13 - 12win/loss

Hard
6-7
I Hard
0-0
Clay
7-5
Rank
191
High
123
LWLWLLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 15-14 6-7 9-7 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 36-23 5-7 29-14 0-1 2-1 0-0
2023 29-29 6-4 23-22 0-2 0-1 0-0
2022 34-32 4-3 30-27 0-2 0-0 0-0
2021 35-28 0-2 33-21 2-5 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 181, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Francavilla Challenger after he played his last match in the Mauthausen Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Trungelliti in the 1st round on the 28th of April.

Timofey has an overall 13-12 win-loss record in 2025, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Skatov has an overall 210-171 record. He has a positive 176-126 record on clay.

Previously in the Francavilla Challenger

Skatov has never competed in this tournament before.

Francavilla Challenger
Skatov's Record

Justin Engel

Justin Engel

16 - 12win/loss

Hard
1-3
I Hard
0-2
Clay
7-6
Carpet
8-1
Rank
333
High
333
WLWLWWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-14 1-3 9-8 0-2 0-0 8-1
2024 37-17 4-3 32-12 1-2 0-0 0-0
2023 11-12 0-0 11-11 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 3-8 0-0 3-6 0-1 0-0 0-1
2021 1-2 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 345 (career-high), the German got to the 1st round after defeating Massimo Giunta 5-7 6-4 6-3 and Gerard Campana Lee 7-6(6) 6-3.

In the qualifications, Engel had a good straight sets win against Campana Lee (7-66 6-3). During the match Engel scored 80 points vs Campana Lee’s 69. Justin was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.

About the serving games, Engel struck 7 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Justin Engel was very effective on serve to win 76% (37/49) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The German broke Campana Lee 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Justin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Engel’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Cadolzburg.

Justin has an aggregate 16-12 win-loss record in 2025, 7-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Francavilla Challenger
Engel's Record

Tennis Scores in Francavilla Challenger

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