Mathys Erhard and Stefan Palosi will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Targu Mures 1 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mathys Erhard who should win in 2 sets.
Mathys Erhard -> 1.37
Stefan Palosi -> 2.9
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Prediction and head to head Mathys Erhard vs. Stefan Palosi
This will be the 3rd time that Mathys Erhard and Stefan Palosi play each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Palosi won 6-1 4-6 7-5 in the 1st round in M25 Doha back in 2024.
Mathys Erhard
22 - 21win/loss
316
249
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-28 | 9-6 | 22-20 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 62-28 | 2-2 | 59-25 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 4-4 | 49-28 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-22 | 10-7 | 33-13 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-20 | 10-5 | 31-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 263, Erhard will start his run in the Targu Mures 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Tulln Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Rodriguez in the 1st round on the 2nd of September.
The French player has an overall 22-21 win-loss record in 2025, 19-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Erhard’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Poznan.
Talking about his overall career, Mathys has an overall 249-155 record. He has a positive 212-116 record on clay.
Previously in the Targu Mures 1 Challenger
Mathys has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefan Palosi
30 - 19win/loss
539
420
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-24 | 1-1 | 42-22 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-26 | 15-8 | 36-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-16 | 3-2 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-23 | 2-4 | 37-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-20 | 0-1 | 38-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 731, the Romanian got to the 1st round after beating Edoardo Zanada 6-2 7-5 and Thomas Faurel 2-6 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications against Faurel, Stefan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-5 7-5).During the match Palosi scored less points (7) than Faurel. In fact, the world no. 263 won 86 points vs Faurel’s. That means that Palosi was more focused during the important points. Stefan was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Palosi couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Stefan Palosi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Palosi put 63% of his first serves in, winning 65% (36/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (22/33) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Faurel 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Palosi 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.
Stefan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Buzau.
The Romanian has an overall 30-19 win-loss record in 2025, 29-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Targu Mures 1 Challenger
- Mili PoljicakPoljicak – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mika BrunoldBrunold – Dan MartinMartin (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miguel DamasDamas – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Imanol Lopez MorilloLopez Morillo – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan – Dan Alexandru TomescuAlexandru Tomescu (2-5) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Tommaso CompagnucciCompagnucci (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan PalosiPalosi – Mathys ErhardErhard (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan NijboerNijboer – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian GimaGima – Andrea PicchionePicchione (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu Mihai PapoeMihai Papoe – (0-0) – H2H and prediction