Alex Rybakov and Andre Ilagan will face off in the 1^st round of the Cary Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Rybakov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Rybakov is the pick to win this match.
Alex Rybakov -> 1.54
Andre Ilagan -> 2.35

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Prediction and head to head Alex Rybakov vs. Andre Ilagan

There is no head to head record between Alex Rybakov and Andre Ilagan since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Alex Rybakov

Ranked no. 352, Rybakov got to the 1^st round after beating Nicolas Ian Kotzen 7-5 6-1 and Saahith Jayaraman 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Jayaraman (6-3 6-2). During the match, Rybakov scored 60 points vs Jayaraman’s 46. Rybakov was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about the service games, Rybakov made 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Alex Rybakov lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Rybakov put 62% of his first serves in, winning 69% (20/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Alex broke Jayaraman 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alex started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Rybakov has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (245-161). 17-5 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Rybakov has a composed 90-68 match record in the last years on hard.

Rybakov’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Montreal,M25 Bakersfield,M25 Pensacola and M25 Tulsa.

Rybakov has an overall 35-13 win-loss record in 2025, 17-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cary Challenger

Andre Ilagan

Ranked no. 371, Andre will start his run in the Cary Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Rancho Santa Fe where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Anthrop in the 1^st round on the 18^th of June.

Ilagan has an aggregate 19-17 win-loss record in 2025, 19-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of his career, The American has an overall 103-59 record. He has a positive 94-51 record on hard.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• Aidan MayoMayo – Andres AndradeAndrade (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Liam DraxlDraxl – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Yi ZhouZhou (7-6⁵ 6-7⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yibing WuWu – Ian MayewMayew (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andres MartinMartin – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-4 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Karue SellSell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alex RybakovRybakov – Andre IlaganIlagan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Joshua SheehySheehy – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction