Robert Strombachs and Martin Damm will square off in the 2nd round of the Tbilisi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Martin Damm who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Martin Damm is the pick to win this match.
Martin Damm -> 1.57
Robert Strombachs -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Robert Strombachs vs. Martin Damm
This will be the 2nd time that Robert Strombachs and Martin Damm clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Damm (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Damm won 6-7(5) 6-4 7-5 in the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh back in March 2025.
Robert Strombachs
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 43-23 | 33-11 | 6-7 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 45-23 | 35-12 | 3-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2024 | 52-31 | 32-9 | 13-15 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 54-33 | 44-21 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 68-30 | 47-21 | 15-4 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 336, the German reached the 2nd round after defeating Kasidit Samrej 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Strombachs had a good straight sets win against Samrej (6-4 6-2). During the match, Strombachs scored 62 points vs Samrej’s 46. Robert was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Strombachs made 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Robert Strombachs was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (30/37) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Robert broke Samrej 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Strombachs has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (310-185). 23-6 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Strombachs has an aggregate210-98 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
Robert’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M15 Monastir.
Robert has an aggregate 28-8 win-loss record in 2025, 23-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tbilisi Challenger
Strombachs has never competed in this tournament before.
Martin Damm
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31-26 | 11-12 | 7-6 | 6-3 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 52-20 | 36-13 | 0-2 | 16-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-20 | 7-7 | 1-5 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-29 | 30-14 | 9-8 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-23 | 17-12 | 10-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 740, the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 7-6(3) 7-6(2), Ajeet Rai 7-6(4) 7-5 and Toby Samuel 6-7(4) 7-6(3) 6-3.
In the 1st round against Samuel, Martin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 7-63 6-3). During the match Damm scored 116 points vs Samuel’s 107. Damm was quite aggressive to blast 60 winners.
Talking about serving, Damm overwhelmed his opponent with 25 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Martin Damm conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 62% of his first serves in, win 87% (60/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (19/42) on the 2nd serve. Damm broke Samuel once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).
Martin’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M25 Tbilisi.
Damm has an aggregate 20-7 win-loss record in 2025, 18-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Strombachs | Damm |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 86 |
| Pts | 62-46 | 279-248 |
| Total Points | 108 | 527 |
| Winners | 30 | 139 |
| %Winners | 48% | 50% |
Strombachs played 1 match while Damm competed in 3 matches. Damm started his run from the qualifications while Strombachs had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Martin Damm dropped 1 set while Robert Strombachs hasn’t lost a set so far. Strombachs has played 5 set(s) less than Damm (2 vs 7). Therefore, Strombachs played 68 games less than Damm. The German scored 30 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Martin managed to score 139 winners (50%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Strombachs | Damm |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 64 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 21.3 |
| 1st in | 37/61 | 161/249 |
| %1st in | 61% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 30/37 | 139/161 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 46/88 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 52% |
Strombachs bagged 8 aces . Damm scored 64 aces (21.3 per match). Strombachs won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Damm won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Strombachs | Damm |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/18 |
| % Converted | 60% | 17% |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Robert broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The German extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 5 break points. Martin broke his opponents 3 times with a 17% conversion rate. Martin conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Strombachs | |||
| R1 Samrej |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-46 | 62-46 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/61 | 37/61 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 30/37 | 30/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Damm | |||||
| Q1 Kumar Mukund |
Q3 Rai |
R1 Samuel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 7-62 | 7-64 7-5 | 6-74 7-63 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 25 | 35 | 86 | |
| pts | 80-68 | 83-73 | 116-107 | 279-248 | |
| Total points | 148 | 156 | 223 | 527 | |
| Winners | 47 | 32 | 60 | 139 | |
| %Winners | 59% | 39% | 52% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 23 | 16 | 25 | 64 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 1 | 6 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 50/67 | 42/71 | 69/111 | 161/249 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 59% | 62% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 47/50 | 32/42 | 60/69 | 139/161 | |
| % 1st pts | 94% | 76% | 87% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 19/29 | 19/42 | 46/88 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 66% | 45% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Converted | 0/2 | 2/11 | 1/5 | 3/18 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 18% | 20% | 17% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Tbilisi Challenger
- Florent BaxBax – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Sergey FominFomin – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-3 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Lukas PokornyPokorny – Alastair GrayGray (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Henry SearleSearle – Fabrizio AndaloroAndaloro (6-74 7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Charles BroomBroom – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (4-6 6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Fajing SunSun (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Giles HusseyHussey (2-6 7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Eliakim CoulibalyCoulibaly – Maximus JonesJones (6-3 7-66) – See score progression
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Martin DammDamm – Toby SamuelSamuel (6-74 7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Johannus MondayMonday – Philip HenningHenning (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Federico CinaCina – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Ilya SnitariSnitari – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Lukas PokornyPokorny – Alastair GrayGray (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Charles BroomBroom – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (4-6 6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Eliakim CoulibalyCoulibaly – Maximus JonesJones (6-3 7-6(6)) – See score progression
- Florent BaxBax – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Fajing SunSun (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Henry SearleSearle – Fabrizio AndaloroAndaloro (6-7(4) 7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Giles HusseyHussey (2-6 7-6(2) 7-5) – See score progression
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sergey FominFomin – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil GlinkaGlinka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze – George LoffhagenLoffhagen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – Charles BroomBroom (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
