Theo Papamalamis and Justin Boulais will square off in the 1st round of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. 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 Justin Boulais who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Justin Boulais is the pick to win this match.
Justin Boulais -> 1.85
Theo Papamalamis -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Theo Papamalamis vs. Justin Boulais

There is no head to head record between Theo Papamalamis and Justin Boulais since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Theo Papamalamis

Theo Papamalamis

20 - 13win/loss

Hard
6-6
I Hard
4-2
Clay
10-5
Rank
723
High
595
LLLWLLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 20-14 6-7 10-5 4-2 0-0 0-0
2024 20-20 2-2 5-5 13-12 0-0 0-1
2023 1-2 0-0 1-1 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 3-6 0-0 1-2 1-3 0-0 1-1

Ranked no. 601, the French player will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match in the Salem Challenger where he lost 7-5 7-6(2) to Vandecasteele in the qualifications on the 8th of September.

The French player has a composed 20-12 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Theo’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Ithaca.

Talking about his overall career, Papamalamis has an overall 44-40 record. He has a positive 18-17 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Columbus Challenger

Papamalamis has never competed in this tournament before.

Columbus Challenger
Papamalamis's Record

Justin Boulais

Justin Boulais

34 - 19win/loss

Hard
23-14
I Hard
7-1
Clay
4-4
Rank
560
High
483
LLWWLWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 40-25 24-15 4-4 12-6 0-0 0-0
2024 6-12 4-7 0-1 2-4 0-0 0-0
2023 12-12 7-9 0-0 5-3 0-0 0-0
2022 19-9 12-3 0-1 7-5 0-0 0-0
2021 0-3 0-1 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 631, the Canadian got to the 1st round after defeating Pietro Orlando Fellin 6-2 7-6(5) and Bryce Nakashima 7-6(3) 7-6(2)

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In the qualifications, Boulais had a good straight sets win against Nakashima (7-63 7-62). During the match Boulais scored 93 points vs Nakashima’s 87. Boulais was pretty aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Talking about serving, Boulais struck 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Justin Boulais lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Boulais put 69% of his first serves in, winning 77% (48/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Nakashima once after converting 14% of his break points (1/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Justin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 53% of the points he played.

Justin’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Laval.

Boulais has a compiled 33-19 win-loss record in 2025, 6-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Columbus Challenger
Boulais's Record

Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger

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