Andrey Rublev and Valentin Royer will play each other in the 2nd round of the Hangzhou Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrey Rublev who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrey Rublev is the pick to win this match.
Andrey Rublev -> 1.31
Valentin Royer -> 3.45
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Prediction and head to head Andrey Rublev vs. Valentin Royer
There is no head to head record between Andrey Rublev and Valentin Royer since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Andrey Rublev
32 - 20win/loss
16
5
LWWLLLLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-25 | 16-13 | 8-6 | 6-4 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-26 | 26-11 | 11-6 | 6-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-26 | 23-12 | 19-5 | 6-7 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-20 | 19-7 | 14-6 | 18-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 25-10 | 9-5 | 12-6 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 14, the Russian will start his run in Hangzhou after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 7-5 6-3 6-4 to Auger-Aliassime in the 4th round on the 1st of September.
The Russian has a compiled 32-20 win-loss record in 2025, 16-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title in Doha where he overcame Jack Draper in the final 7-5 5-7 6-1.
Talking about his overall career, The Russian has an overall 510-282 record. He has a positive 207-107 record on hard.
Previously in Hangzhou
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Valentin Royer
50 - 22win/loss
57
56
LLLWLWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61-31 | 16-8 | 31-11 | 10-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-30 | 6-5 | 32-13 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 88 (career-high), the French player reached the 2nd round after defeating Charles Chen 6-3 7-5, Eliot Spizzirri 7-5 4-6 6-3 and Aleksandar Kovacevic 4-6 7-6(6) 6-3.
In the 1st round against Kovacevic, Valentin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-66 6-3). During the match Royer scored 114 points vs Kovacevic’s 100. Royer was extremely aggressive to blast 49 winners.
About the serving games, Royer made 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Valentin Royer was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (49/62) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Royer broke Kovacevic 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Kigali 1 Challenger where he defeated Andrej Martin in the final 6-1 6-2 and the Kigali 2 Challenger where he beat Guy Den Ouden in the final 6-2 6-4.
The French player has an aggregate 50-22 win-loss record in 2025, 10-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Sebastian KordaKorda – Adam WaltonWalton (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Nicolas Barrientos/David PelBarrientos/David Pel – Petr Nouza/Patrik RiklNouza/Patrik Rikl (6-74 7-64 10-8) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – David GoffinGoffin (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (4-6 7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Fernando Romboli/John-Patrick SmithRomboli/John-Patrick Smith – Rinky Hijikata/Adam WaltonHijikata/Adam Walton (3-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Fajing SunSun (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Marin CilicCilic (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (6-72 6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Yibing WuWu – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (4-6 7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Learner TienTien – Mariano NavoneNavone (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (4-6 7-6(6) 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – David GoffinGoffin (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Alexander BublikBublik (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yibing WuWu – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
