Ilia Simakin and Kris Van Wyk will play each other in the 1st round of the Tbilisi Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ilia Simakin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ilia Simakin is the pick to win this match.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.181
Kris Van Wyk -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Ilia Simakin vs. Kris Van Wyk
This will be the 4th time that Ilia Simakin and Kris Van Wyk fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Van (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Van won 6-7(6) 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in M25 Sharm ElSheikh back in 2023.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 43-17 | 38-8 | 3-8 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 43-22 | 43-21 | 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 |
Ranked no. 247 (career-high), Simakin will start his run in the Tbilisi Challenger after he played his last match in the Wuxi Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-2 6-3 to Sun in the semifinal on the 10th of May.
Simakin has a compiled 26-9 win-loss record in 2025, 26-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Simakin’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Heraklion and the Wuxi Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Simakin has an overall 144-69 record. He has a positive 133-60 record on hard.
Previously in the Tbilisi Challenger
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Kris Van Wyk
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9-17 | 9-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 22-27 | 22-25 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 65-39 | 64-38 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-32 | 54-30 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-17 | 52-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 397, Van will start his run in the Tbilisi Challenger after he played his last match in the Abidjan 2 Challenger where he lost 7-5 7-5 to Kivattsev in the 1st round on the 21st of April.
Kris has an overall 6-9 win-loss record in 2025, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Kris’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
In terms of his career, The South African has an overall 178-97 record. He has a positive 176-92 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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- Ilya SnitariSnitari – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Johannus MondayJohannus – Philip HenningPhilip (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fajing SunSun – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Charles BroomBroom – Richard BerankisBerankis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sergey FominFomin – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alastair GrayGray – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Florent BaxBax – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze – George LoffhagenLoffhagen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
