Alex Molcan and Ivan Ivanov will play each other in the 1^st round of the Sofia 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Molcan who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Molcan is the pick to win this match.
Alex Molcan -> 1.176
Ivan Ivanov -> 4.45

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Prediction and head to head Alex Molcan vs. Ivan Ivanov

There is no head to head record between Alex Molcan and Ivan Ivanov since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Alex Molcan

Ranked no. 362, the Slovakian got to the 1^st round after defeating S D Prajwal Dev 6-0 6-2 and Filip Pieczonka 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Molcan had a good straight sets win against Pieczonka (6-3 6-1). During the match, Molcan scored 62 points vs Pieczonka’s 39. Alex was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Molcan fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Alex Molcan was very effective on serve to win 72% (21/29) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Molcan broke Pieczonka 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Molcan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 64% of the points he played.

Molcan has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (281-181). 33-10 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Molcan has a composed 187-105 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Molcan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Reggio Emilia.

The Slovakian has a composed 33-11 win-loss record in 2025, 33-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sofia 2 Challenger

Alex has never competed in this tournament before.

Ivan Ivanov

Ranked no. 821, Ivanov will start his run in the Sofia 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Sofia 1 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-2

to Sharipov in the 1^st round on the 12^th of August.

The Bulgarian has an aggregate 7-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Ivan’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Szentendre.

In terms of his career, The Bulgarian has an overall 25-16 record. He has a positive 19-9 record on clay.

Tennis Scores in Sofia 2 Challenger

• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Tiago PereiraPereira (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matej DodigDodig – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander DonskiDonski – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-1 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander VasilevVasilev – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marat SharipovSharipov – Aryan ShahShah (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Alexander DonskiDonski – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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