Eliakim Coulibaly and Kenny de Schepper will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Cassis Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Eliakim Coulibaly who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Eliakim Coulibaly is the pick to win this match.
Eliakim Coulibaly -> 1.3
Kenny de Schepper -> 3.28

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Prediction and head to head Eliakim Coulibaly vs. Kenny de Schepper

There is no head to head record between Eliakim Coulibaly and Kenny de Schepper since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Eliakim Coulibaly

Eliakim Coulibaly

21 - 15win/loss

Hard
18-10
I Hard
0-1
Clay
3-4
Rank
336
High
263
LWWWLWLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 31-23 26-16 3-4 2-3 0-0 0-0
2024 62-23 40-10 10-5 12-8 0-0 0-0
2023 43-23 36-17 0-0 7-6 0-0 0-0
2022 35-16 32-10 3-5 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 28-11 28-11 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 301, Coulibaly will start his run in the Cassis Challenger after he played his last match in the Manacor Challenger where he lost 7-6(2) 7-6(4) to Tobon in the 2nd round on the 28th of August.

Coulibaly has an aggregate 20-15 win-loss record in 2025, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title the Abidjan 2 Challenger where he beat Aziz Dougaz in the final 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, The Ivorian has an overall 192-93 record. He has a positive 156-61 record on hard.

Previously in the Cassis Challenger

The Ivorian has never competed in this tournament before.

Cassis Challenger
Coulibaly's Record

Kenny de Schepper

Kenny de Schepper

22 - 23win/loss

Hard
8-8
I Hard
5-7
Clay
8-7
Grass
1-1
Rank
668
High
62
LLWLWLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-28 8-8 8-7 10-12 1-1 0-0
2024 31-31 14-9 4-8 13-14 0-0 0-0
2023 27-29 7-4 8-14 12-10 0-1 0-0
2022 41-35 6-7 18-16 17-12 0-0 0-0
2021 38-24 22-8 5-5 11-11 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 663, Kenny got to the 1st round after beating Robin Catry 6-1 6-3 and Filippo Moroni 3-6 7-5 7-5.

In the qualifications against Moroni, Kenny recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 7-5).During the match de Schepper scored less points (3) than Moroni. In fact, the world no. 301 won 106 points vs Moroni’s. That means that de Schepper was more focused during the important points. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Talking about serving, de Schepper scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 7 double faults. Kenny de Schepper lost the serve 6 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, de Schepper put 66% of his first serves in, winning 62% (47/76) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (16/39) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Moroni 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

De Schepper started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

Kenny’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Monastir.

De Schepper has a composed 22-22 win-loss record in 2025, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Cassis Challenger
de Schepper's Record

Tennis Scores in Cassis Challenger

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