Nikoloz Basilashvili and Maxim Mrva will face off in the 1st round of the Trieste Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nikoloz Basilashvili who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nikoloz Basilashvili is the pick to win this match.
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 1.46
Maxim Mrva -> 2.56

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Prediction and head to head Nikoloz Basilashvili vs. Maxim Mrva

There is no head to head record between Nikoloz Basilashvili and Maxim Mrva since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Nikoloz Basilashvili

Nikoloz Basilashvili

26 - 18win/loss

Hard
7-6
I Hard
6-2
Clay
8-7
Grass
5-3
Rank
109
High
16
LWWWLWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 41-29 18-13 9-10 9-3 5-3 0-0
2024 51-32 11-8 27-15 13-9 0-0 0-0
2023 4-19 1-8 0-5 3-6 0-0 0-0
2022 16-31 3-11 5-9 4-7 4-4 0-0
2021 35-27 18-11 8-8 3-5 6-3 0-0

Ranked no. 126, Basilashvili will start his run in the Trieste Challenger after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-1 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6 to Sonego in the 2nd round on the 3rd of July.

Basilashvili has a compiled 26-18 win-loss record in 2025, 8-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Georgean’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Bordeaux Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Basilashvili has an overall 469-409 record. He has a positive 176-138 record on clay.

Previously in the Trieste Challenger

Nikoloz has never competed in this tournament before.

Trieste Challenger
Basilashvili's Record

Maxim Mrva

Maxim Mrva

22 - 13win/loss

Hard
8-3
I Hard
1-0
Clay
13-10
Rank
348
High
348
LWWLLWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 38-25 14-6 23-18 1-1 0-0 0-0
2024 10-8 2-3 8-4 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 3-4 0-0 3-3 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 501 (career-high), Maxim reached the 1st round after defeating Moez Echargui 7-5 1-6 7-6(7) and Lukas Pokorny 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Pokorny (6-2 6-3). During the match Mrva scored 68 points vs Pokorny’s 47. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Mrva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Maxim Mrva was quite effective on serve to win 74% (17/23) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Mrva broke Pokorny 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Czech started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Maxim’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.

Maxim has an aggregate 22-13 win-loss record in 2025, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Trieste Challenger
Mrva's Record

Tennis Scores in Trieste Challenger

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