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.
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
22 - 16win/loss
148
125
| 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.
Kalin Ivanovski
| 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.
Tennis Scores in San Marino Challenger
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-2 4-6 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlo Alberto CaniatoAlberto Caniato – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (7-65 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Richard BerankisBerankis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Murkel Alejandro Dellien VelascoAlejandro Dellien Velasco – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luka PavlovicPavlovic – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction