Alex Rybakov and Samir Banerjee will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Alex Rybakov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Rybakov is the pick to win this match.
Alex Rybakov -> 1.86
Samir Banerjee -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Alex Rybakov vs. Samir Banerjee

This will be the 2^nd time that Alex Rybakov and Samir Banerjee face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Banerjee (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Banerjee won 5-7 6-1 6-4 in the final in M25 Dallas back in July 2025.

Alex Rybakov

Ranked no. 314, the American will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in the Lexington Challenger where he lost 6-2 7-6(10) to Svajda in the 1^st round on the 29^th of July.

Rybakov has an aggregate 41-16 win-loss record in 2025, 19-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Montreal,M25 Bakersfield,M25 Pensacola,M25 Tulsa and M25 Dallas.

Talking about his overall career, Alex has an overall 262-175 record. He has a positive 95-71 record on hard.

Previously in the Chicago Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Samir Banerjee

Ranked no. 516, the American got to the 1^st round after defeating Aidan Kim 3-6 6-2 6-3 and Justin Boulais 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Samir had a good straight sets win against Boulais (6-3 7-5). During the match Banerjee scored 74 points vs Boulais’s 54. Banerjee was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Banerjee blasted 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Samir Banerjee lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Banerjee put 66% of his first serves in, winning 87% (33/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. Banerjee broke Boulais 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Samir’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Dallas.

Samir has a compiled 10-3 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger

• Yibing WuWu – Andre IlaganIlagan (1-6 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Patrick MaloneyMaloney (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alfredo PerezPerez (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Garrett JohnsJohns – Billy HarrisHarris (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Jason JungJung – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex BoltBolt – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yibing WuWu – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• August HolmgrenHolmgren – Darian KingKing (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andrew FentyFenty – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Stefan DostanicDostanic – Bernard TomicTomic (0-1) – H2H and prediction