Ivan Gakhov and Theo Papamalamis will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Royan Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ivan Gakhov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ivan Gakhov is the pick to win this match.
Ivan Gakhov -> 1.43
Theo Papamalamis -> 2.66

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Prediction and head to head Ivan Gakhov vs. Theo Papamalamis

There is no head to head record between Ivan Gakhov and Theo Papamalamis since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Ivan Gakhov

Ranked no. 268, Gakhov will start his run in the Royan Challenger after he played his last match in the Lyon Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-4 6-3 to Trungelliti in the 2^nd round on the 12^th of June.

Ivan has a compiled 29-17 win-loss record in 2025, 22-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Ivan’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santa margherita di Pula.

Talking about his overall career, Ivan has an overall 444-284 record. He has a positive 389-223 record on clay.

Previously in the Royan Challenger

The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.

Theo Papamalamis

Ranked no. 666, Papamalamis reached the 1^st round after defeating Loann Massard 6-0 6-2 and Mae Malige 7-6(2) 6-2.

In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Malige (7-6² 6-2). During the match Papamalamis scored 78 points vs Malige’s 59. Papamalamis was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Papamalamis scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Theo Papamalamis was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 73% (22/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Malige twice after converting 18% of his break points (2/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Papamalamis started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Theo’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Ithaca.

The French player has a compiled 12-5 win-loss record in 2025, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Royan Challenger

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• Mathys ErhardErhard – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (7-6⁵ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Calvin HemeryHemery – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Titouan DroguetDroguet – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luka MikrutMikrut – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (7-6⁸ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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