Eliakim Coulibaly and Federico Cina will play each other in the quarter of the Tbilisi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Federico Cina who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Federico Cina is the pick to win this match.
Federico Cina -> 1.54
Eliakim Coulibaly -> 2.35

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Prediction and head to head Eliakim Coulibaly vs. Federico Cina

There is no head to head record between Eliakim Coulibaly and Federico Cina since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Eliakim Coulibaly

Ranked no. 272, Coulibaly reached the quarter after defeating Maximus Jones 6-3 7-6(6) and Florent Bax 6-2 6-7(4) 7-6(1).

In the 2^nd round, The Ivorian defeated Bax (6-2 6-7⁴ 7-6¹). During the match, Coulibaly scored 115 points vs Bax’s 89. The Ivorian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 51 winners.

Talking about the service games, Coulibaly fired 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Eliakim Coulibaly was quite effective on serve to win 91% (51/56) of his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Eliakim broke Bax twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Coulibaly has lost 1 set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.

Coulibaly has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 68% of his matches (184-85). 9-2 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Coulibaly has an aggregate148-53 record in the last 7 years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Abidjan 2 Challenger where he overcame Aziz Dougaz in the final 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4.

Coulibaly has an overall 12-7 win-loss record in 2025, 9-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tbilisi Challenger

Eliakim has never competed in this tournament before.

Federico Cina

Ranked no. 323 (career-high), Cina got to the quarter after beating Petr Bar Biryukov 6-4 6-4 and Ilya Snitari 6-1 7-5.

In the 2^nd round, Cina had a good straight sets win against Snitari (6-1 7-5). During the match Cina scored 63 points vs Snitari’s 44. Cina was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Cina managed to score 3 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Federico Cina was quite efficient on serve to win 88% (28/32) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Federico broke Snitari 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cina hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Federico’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and the Hersonissos 2 Challenger.

The Italian has an overall 13-6 win-loss record in 2025, 12-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Coulibaly	Cina
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	5	4
Tot Games	56	39
Pts	186-149	129-90
Total Points	335	219
Winners	87	53
%Winners	47%	41%

Both Coulibaly and Cina played 2 matches. At the moment, Eliakim Coulibaly lost 1 set while Federico Cina hasn’t conceded a set so far. Coulibaly has played 1 set more than Cina (5 vs 4). Therefore, Coulibaly played 17 games more than Cina. Coulibaly scored 87 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian recorded 53 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Coulibaly	Cina
Aces	21	5
Avg per match	10.5	2.5
1st in	97/147	58/104
%1st in	66%	56%
1st pts	87/97	53/58
%1st pts	90%	91%
2nd pts	31/50	28/46
%2nd pts	62%	61%

Coulibaly scored 21 aces (10.5 per match). Cina managed to score 5 aces (2.5 per match). Coulibaly won 90% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Cina won 91% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Coulibaly	Cina
Won	4	5
Converted	4/12	5/7
% Converted	33%	71%
Conceded	0	1
Saved	0	1
% Saved	0%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Eliakim broke his opponents 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Eliakim had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Federico broke his opponents 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Coulibaly
	R1 Jones	R2 Bax	Total
Score	6-3 7-66	6-2 6-74 7-61
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	22	34	56
pts	71-60	115-89	186-149
Total points	131	204	335
Winners	36	51	87
%Winners	51%	44%	47%
SERVE
Aces	10	11	21
Double Faults	3	3	6
1st in	41/58	56/89	97/147
% 1st in	71%	63%	66%
1st pts	36/41	51/56	87/97
% 1st pts	88%	91%	90%
2nd pts	11/17	20/33	31/50
% 2nd pts	65%	61%	62%
Breaks
Won	2	2	4
Converted	2/5	2/7	4/12
Converted %	40%	29%	33%
Conceded	0	0	0
Saved	0/0	0/0	0
Saved %	–	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Cina
	R1 Bar	R2 Snitari	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	6-1 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	20	19	39
pts	66-46	63-44	129-90
Total points	112	107	219
Winners	25	28	53
%Winners	38%	44%	41%
SERVE
Aces	2	3	5
Double Faults	2	0	2
1st in	26/48	32/56	58/104
% 1st in	54%	57%	56%
1st pts	25/26	28/32	53/58
% 1st pts	96%	88%	91%
2nd pts	15/22	13/24	28/46
% 2nd pts	68%	54%	61%
Breaks
Won	2	3	5
Converted	2/2	3/5	5/7
Converted %	100%	60%	71%
Conceded	0	1	1
Saved	0/0	1/1	1
Saved %	–	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	0	0

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