Valentin Royer and Billy Harris will play each other in the qualifications of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on SHOW COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.51
Billy Harris -> 2.42

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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Billy Harris

This will be the 2^nd time that Valentin Royer and Billy Harris play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Royer (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Royer won 6-1 0-0 ret. in the 1^st round in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger back in 2023.

Valentin Royer

Ranked no. 76 (career-high), the French player got to the qualifications after beating Titouan Droguet 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, Royer had a good straight sets win against Droguet (6-1 6-2). During the match, Royer scored 51 points vs Droguet’s 23. Royer was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about the service games, Royer fired 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Valentin Royer was extremely efficient on serve to win 100% (22/22) of his 1st serve and 79% (11/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Droguet 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Royer has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (262-139). 14-7 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Royer has a composed67-33 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

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 overcame Guy Den Ouden in the final 6-2 6-4.

The French player has an aggregate 54-23 win-loss record in 2025, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Royer has never competed in this tournament before.

Billy Harris

Ranked no. 131, the Brit got to the qualifications after defeating Taro Daniel 6-4 6-2.

In the qualifications, Billy had a good straight sets win against Daniel (6-4 6-2). During the match Harris scored 72 points vs Daniel’s 52. Harris was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Harris recorded 7 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Billy Harris was pretty efficient on serve to win 88% (23/26) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Harris broke Daniel 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Cassis Challenger where he overcame Daniil Glinka in the final 3-6 7-5 6-3.

Billy has a composed 40-38 win-loss record in 2025, 33-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Royer	Harris
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	18
Pts	51-23	72-52
Total Points	74	124
Winners	22	23
%Winners	43%	32%

Both Royer and Harris played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Royer and Harris have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Royer played 3 games less than Harris. The French player scored 22 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Billy bagged 23 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Royer	Harris
Aces	2	7
Avg per match	2	7
1st in	22/36	26/55
%1st in	61%	47%
1st pts	22/22	23/26
%1st pts	100%	88%
2nd pts	11/14	17/29
%2nd pts	79%	59%

Royer struck 2 aces . Harris managed to score 7 aces . Royer won 100% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 79% of the points. On the other side, Harris won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Royer	Harris
Won	4	3
Converted	4/7	3/12
% Converted	57%	25%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1	1
% Saved	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Valentin broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Royer was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Billy broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Harris was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Royer
	Q1 Droguet	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	51-23	51-23
Total points	74	74
Winners	22	22
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	22/36	22/36
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	22/22	22/22
% 1st pts	100%	100%
2nd pts	11/14	11/14
% 2nd pts	79%	79%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Harris
	Q1 Daniel	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	72-52	72-52
Total points	124	124
Winners	23	23
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	26/55	26/55
% 1st in	47%	47%
1st pts	23/26	23/26
% 1st pts	88%	88%
2nd pts	17/29	17/29
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/12	3/12
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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