Gilles Arnaud Bailly and Thomas Faurel will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Tampere Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thomas Faurel who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Thomas Faurel is the pick to win this match.
Thomas Faurel -> 1.833
Gilles Arnaud Bailly -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Gilles Arnaud Bailly vs. Thomas Faurel

There is no head to head record between Gilles Arnaud Bailly and Thomas Faurel since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Gilles Arnaud Bailly

Ranked no. 459 (career-high), the Belgian reached the 2^nd round after beating Dmitry Popko 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Arnaud Bailly had a good straight sets win against Popko (6-3 6-2). During the match, Arnaud Bailly scored 62 points vs Popko’s 47. Arnaud Bailly was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Regarding the service games, Arnaud Bailly recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Gilles Arnaud Bailly was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (24/34) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Arnaud Bailly broke Popko 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Arnaud Bailly has a solid match record in the last 4 years having won 60% of his matches (90-59). 22-7 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Arnaud Bailly has a composed60-39 match record in the last 4 years on clay.

Gilles’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir,M15 Antalya,M15 Oegstgeest and M25 Uriage.

Gilles has an aggregate 41-14 win-loss record in 2025, 22-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tampere Challenger

The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.

Thomas Faurel

Ranked no. 785 (career-high), the French player reached the 2^nd round after defeating Dali Blanch 6-0 7-6(1), Jelle Sels 7-5 6-2 and Timofey Skatov 7-6(2) 4-0 ret..

In the 1^st round against Skatov, Thomas had a free pass after Skatov retired on a 7-6² 4-0 . scoreline.

Faurel’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Antalya.

Thomas has an aggregate 30-16 win-loss record in 2025, 26-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Arnaud Bailly	Faurel
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	7
Tot Games	17	56
Pts	62-47	209-156
Total Points	109	365
Winners	24	82
%Winners	39%	39%

Arnaud Bailly played 1 match while Faurel competed in 3 matches. Faurel started his run from the qualifications while Arnaud Bailly had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Arnaud Bailly has played 5 set(s) less than Faurel (2 vs 7). Therefore, Arnaud Bailly played 39 games less than Faurel. Arnaud Bailly scored 24 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Faurel bagged 82 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Arnaud Bailly	Faurel
Aces	2	3
Avg per match	2	1
1st in	34/63	113/183
%1st in	54%	62%
1st pts	24/34	82/113
%1st pts	71%	73%
2nd pts	17/29	40/70
%2nd pts	59%	57%

Arnaud Bailly scored 2 aces . Faurel made 3 aces (1 per match). Arnaud Bailly won 71% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Faurel won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Arnaud Bailly	Faurel
Won	4	11
Converted	4/5	11/24
% Converted	80%	46%
Conceded	4	17
Saved	3	14
% Saved	75%	82%
Times Broken	1	3

The Belgian broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Gilles surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponents 11 times with a 46% conversion rate. Faurel conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.

Arnaud Bailly
	R1 Popko	Total
Score	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	62-47	62-47
Total points	109	109
Winners	24	24
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	34/63	34/63
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	24/34	24/34
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	17/29	17/29
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Faurel
	Q1 Blanch	Q3 Sels	R1 Skatov	Total
Score	6-0 7-61	7-5 6-2	7-62 4-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	19	20	17	56
pts	80-57	67-52	62-47	209-156
Total points	137	119	109	365
Winners	25	33	24	82
%Winners	31%	49%	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	0	1	2	3
Double Faults	4	1	3	8
1st in	37/67	42/60	34/56	113/183
% 1st in	55%	70%	61%	62%
1st pts	25/37	33/42	24/34	82/113
% 1st pts	68%	79%	71%	73%
2nd pts	17/30	10/18	13/22	40/70
% 2nd pts	57%	56%	59%	57%
Breaks
Won	5	3	3	11
Converted	5/12	3/7	3/5	11/24
Converted %	42%	43%	60%	46%
Conceded	10	3	4	17
Saved	8/10	3/3	3/4	14
Saved %	80%	100%	75%	255%
Times Broken	2	0	1	3

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