Timofey Skatov and Thomas Faurel will square off in the 1st round of the Tampere Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 7:30 pm on COURT 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Timofey Skatov who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Timofey Skatov is the pick to win this match.
Timofey Skatov -> 1.38
Thomas Faurel -> 2.85

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Prediction and head to head Timofey Skatov vs. Thomas Faurel

This will be the 2nd time that Timofey Skatov and Thomas Faurel square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Faurel (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Faurel won 6-2 4-6 6-0 in the 1st round in the Troyes Challenger back in June 2025.

Timofey Skatov

Timofey Skatov

19 - 20win/loss

Hard
6-7
I Hard
0-0
Clay
12-12
Grass
1-1
Rank
241
High
123
LLLLLLLLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-32 6-11 22-19 0-1 1-1 0-0
2024 36-23 5-7 29-14 0-1 2-1 0-0
2023 29-29 6-4 23-22 0-2 0-1 0-0
2022 34-32 4-3 30-27 0-2 0-0 0-0
2021 35-28 0-2 33-21 2-5 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 309, Timofey will start his run in the Tampere Challenger after he played his last match in Bastad where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Pellegrino in the qualifications on the 14th of July.

The Kazakhstani has a compiled 19-20 win-loss record in 2025, 12-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 216-179 record. He has a positive 181-133 record on clay.

Previously in the Tampere Challenger

The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.

Tampere Challenger
Skatov's Record

Thomas Faurel

Thomas Faurel

29 - 16win/loss

Hard
4-2
I Hard
0-0
Clay
25-14
Rank
580
High
572
WLLLLLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 44-28 5-3 39-24 0-1 0-0 0-0
2024 5-12 0-1 4-10 1-1 0-0 0-0
2023 1-4 0-0 0-2 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 785 (career-high), Thomas got to the 1st round after beating Dali Blanch 6-0 7-6(1) and Jelle Sels 7-5 6-2.

In the qualifications, Faurel had a good straight sets win against Blanch (6-0 7-61). During the match Faurel scored 80 points vs Blanch’s 57. Thomas was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Faurel wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Thomas Faurel lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Faurel put 55% of his first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Faurel broke Blanch 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

The French player best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Antalya.

The French player has a compiled 28-16 win-loss record in 2025, 24-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tampere Challenger
Faurel's Record

Tennis Scores in Tampere Challenger

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