Thomas Faurel and Stefan Palosi will play each other in the qualifications of the Targu Mures 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.48
Stefan Palosi -> 2.5

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Prediction and head to head Thomas Faurel vs. Stefan Palosi

There is no head to head record between Thomas Faurel and Stefan Palosi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Thomas Faurel

Ranked no. 616, Faurel reached the qualifications after defeating Benjamin Thomas George 6-4 7-5.

In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Thomas George (6-4 7-5). During the match, Faurel scored 73 points vs Thomas George’s 62. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Faurel scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Thomas Faurel lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Faurel put 69% of his first serves in, winning 65% (34/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the 2nd serve. Thomas broke Thomas George 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Faurel has a winning match record in the last 3 years having won 55% of his matches (46-37). 36-19 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Faurel has a composed40-31 win-loss record in the last 3 years on clay.

The French player best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sofia.

Faurel has an overall 40-21 win-loss record in 2025, 36-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Targu Mures 1 Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Stefan Palosi

Ranked no. 674, will start his run in the Targu Mures 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Targu Mures 1 Challenger where he beat 6-2 7-5 to Zanada in the qualifications on the 7^th

of September.

Palosi has a composed 28-19 win-loss record in 2025, 27-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Palosi’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Buzau.

Palosi won his last 5 matches.

In terms of his career, The Romanian has an overall 248-144 record. He has a positive 179-101 record on clay.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Faurel	Palosi
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	20
Pts	73-62	75-53
Total Points	135	128
Winners	34	29
%Winners	47%	39%

Both Faurel and Palosi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Faurel and Palosi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Faurel played 2 games more than Palosi. Faurel scored 34 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Palosi blasted 29 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Faurel	Palosi
Aces	1	0
Avg per match	1	0
1st in	52/75	39/64
%1st in	69%	61%
1st pts	34/52	29/39
%1st pts	65%	74%
2nd pts	12/23	11/25
%2nd pts	52%	44%

Faurel recorded 1 ace . Palosi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Faurel won 65% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Palosi won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Faurel	Palosi
Won	4	5
Converted	4/5	5/7
% Converted	80%	71%
Conceded	6	4
Saved	4	2
% Saved	67%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Faurel dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Stefan broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Faurel
	Q1 Thomas	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	73-62	73-62
Total points	135	135
Winners	34	34
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	52/75	52/75
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	34/52	34/52
% 1st pts	65%	65%
2nd pts	12/23	12/23
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Palosi
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	0%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

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