Matteo Gigante and Kalin Ivanovski will fight against each other in the 1st round of the San Marino Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 8:30 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 Matteo Gigante who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Matteo Gigante is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Gigante -> 1.25
Kalin Ivanovski -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Matteo Gigante vs. Kalin Ivanovski

There is no head to head record between Matteo Gigante and Kalin Ivanovski since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Matteo Gigante

Matteo Gigante

22 - 16win/loss

Hard
7-4
I Hard
0-3
Clay
13-7
Grass
2-2
Rank
148
High
125
LWLLWLLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-23 9-9 15-8 1-4 2-2 0-0
2024 41-25 27-10 11-10 2-4 1-1 0-0
2023 32-29 10-5 19-18 1-5 2-1 0-0
2022 38-20 9-1 27-15 2-4 0-0 0-0
2021 21-15 2-2 16-7 3-6 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 137, Gigante will start his run in the San Marino Challenger after he played his last match in the Trieste Challenger where he lost 7-5 7-6(4) to Collarini in the 1st round on the 9th of July.

Gigante has a compiled 21-16 win-loss record in 2025, 12-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Rome Challenger where he beat Vilius Gaubas in the final 6-2 3-6 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 163-117 record. He has a positive 93-65 record on clay.

Previously in the San Marino Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

San Marino Challenger
Gigante's Record

Kalin Ivanovski

Kalin Ivanovski

19 - 15win/loss

Clay
19-13
Rank
832
High
305
LWWLWWLLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 21-16 0-0 21-14 0-2 0-0 0-0
2024 2-5 0-0 0-1 2-4 0-0 0-0
2023 50-30 19-11 19-12 12-7 0-0 0-0
2022 29-21 23-12 6-8 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 1-9 0-1 1-8 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 853, Kalin got to the 1st round after defeating Jozef Kovalik 7-6(5) 7-6(4) and Francesco Forti 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications against Forti, Kalin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-4 6-4). During the match Ivanovski scored 111 points vs Forti’s 95. Ivanovski was quite aggressive to blast 49 winners.

Talking about serving, Ivanovski blasted 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Kalin Ivanovski lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ivanovski put 57% of his first serves in, winning 89% (49/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (21/42) on the 2nd serve. Ivanovski broke Forti 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ivanovski started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

The Malawian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Opatija.

Kalin has an aggregate 19-14 win-loss record in 2025, 19-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the San Marino Challenger

Kalin has never competed in this tournament before.

San Marino Challenger
Ivanovski's Record

Tennis Scores in San Marino Challenger

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