Sebastian Gima and Thomas Faurel will square off in the qualifications of the Sofia 1 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:30 am on COURT 6. 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 -> 1.615
Sebastian Gima -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Gima vs. Thomas Faurel
This will be the 2nd time that Sebastian Gima and Thomas Faurel play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gima (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Gima won 6-4 0-6 6-3 in the qualifications in the Liberec Challenger back in July 2025.
Sebastian Gima
29 - 23win/loss
533
436
LLLWWWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-36 | 9-5 | 33-31 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-33 | 3-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-35 | 15-8 | 41-25 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-30 | 25-11 | 23-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-24 | 1-3 | 28-20 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 622, Sebastian reached the qualifications after defeating Yanaki Milev 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Gima had a good straight sets win against Milev (6-3 6-3). During the match, Gima scored 62 points vs Milev’s 51. The Romanian was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gima scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Sebastian Gima lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gima put 71% of his first serves in, winning 56% (22/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Milev 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Gima has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (216-162). 23-19 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gima has an aggregate154-120 record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Romanian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Palm Coast and M15 Ljubljana.
Gima has a compiled 29-23 win-loss record in 2025, 23-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sofia 1 Challenger
Sebastian has never competed in this tournament before.
Thomas Faurel
36 - 18win/loss
517
517
WWWWWLWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50-29 | 11-4 | 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. 715 (career-high), Thomas reached the qualifications after defeating Eric Vanshelboim 6-3 2-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Thomas defeated Vanshelboim (6-3 2-6 6-2). During the match Faurel scored 97 points vs Vanshelboim’s 94. Faurel was quite aggressive to blast 48 winners.
About the serving games, Faurel scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Thomas Faurel lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Faurel put 67% of his first serves in, winning 67% (48/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Vanshelboim 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
The French player best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sofia.
Thomas has an overall 36-18 win-loss record in 2025, 32-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gima | Faurel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 25 |
| Pts | 62-51 | 97-94 |
| Total Points | 113 | 191 |
| Winners | 22 | 48 |
| %Winners | 35% | 49% |
Both Gima and Faurel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Thomas Faurel dropped 1 set while Sebastian Gima hasn’t lost a set so far. Gima has played 1 set(s) less than Faurel (2 vs 3). Therefore, Gima played 7 games less than Faurel. Sebastian scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Faurel managed to score 48 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gima | Faurel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 39/55 | 72/108 |
| %1st in | 71% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 22/39 | 48/72 |
| %1st pts | 56% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 17/36 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 47% |
Gima fired 1 ace . Faurel also scored 1 ace . Gima won 56% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Faurel won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gima | Faurel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 45% | 60% |
| Conceded | 5 | 9 |
| Saved | 3 | 7 |
| % Saved | 60% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Gima broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Romanian lost his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Thomas conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gima | |||
| Q1 Milev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-51 | 62-51 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 39/55 | 39/55 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 22/39 | 22/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Faurel | |||
| Q1 Vanshelboim |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 2-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 97-94 | 97-94 | |
| Total points | 191 | 191 | |
| Winners | 48 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 72/108 | 72/108 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 48/72 | 48/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/36 | 17/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 7/9 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 78% | 78% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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