Michael Geerts and Nicolas Kicker will face off in the 1^st round of the Tampere Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on COURT 7. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Kicker who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nicolas Kicker is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.571
Michael Geerts -> 2.28

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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Nicolas Kicker

There is no head to head record between Michael Geerts and Nicolas Kicker since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Michael Geerts

Ranked no. 293, Geerts will start his run in the Tampere Challenger after he played his last match in the Bunschoten Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Houkes in the 1^st round on the 15^th of July.

Geerts has an overall 25-22 win-loss record in 2025, 10-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Belgian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Loule and the Abidjan 2 Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Geerts has an overall 385-293 record. He has a positive 133-117 record on clay.

Previously in the Tampere Challenger

The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.

Nicolas Kicker

Ranked no. 361, Kicker reached the 1^st round after beating Patrik Niklas-Salminen 6-3 6-2 and Billy Suarez 6-2 6-1.

In the qualifications, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Suarez (6-2 6-1). During the match Kicker scored 55 points vs Suarez’s 31. Kicker was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Kicker wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nicolas Kicker lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kicker put 61% of his first serves in, winning 57% (17/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the 2nd serve. Nicolas broke Suarez 7 times after converting 58% of his break points (7/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kicker started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 61% of the points he played.

Kicker’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Santiago and the Concepcion Challenger.

Nicolas has a composed 32-16 win-loss record in 2025, 30-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Tampere Challenger

• Daniel RinconRincon – Christoph NegrituNegritu (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Eero VasaVasa (7-6⁴ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Nicolas KickerKicker – Michael GeertsGeerts (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Sumit NagalNagal (0-4) – H2H and prediction
• Alex MolcanMolcan – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick ZahrajZahraj – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva – (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Mathys ErhardErhard – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Daniel MichalskiMichalski – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vesa AhtiAhti – Max HoukesHoukes (0-0) – H2H and prediction