Valentin Royer and Mariano Navone will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on COURT 4. 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.44
Mariano Navone -> 2.79

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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Mariano Navone

There is no head to head record between Valentin Royer and Mariano Navone since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Valentin Royer

Ranked no. 76 (career-high), Royer reached the 1^st round after defeating Titouan Droguet 6-1 6-2 and Billy Harris 7-6(2) 6-4.

In the qualifications, Royer had a good straight sets win against Harris (7-6² 6-4). During the match, Royer scored 79 points vs Harris’s 78. Royer was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Talking about the service games, Royer bagged 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Valentin Royer lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Royer put 64% of his first serves in, winning 69% (37/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Harris twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Royer started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.

Royer has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (263-139). 15-7 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Royer has an overall68-33 match 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 beat Guy Den Ouden in the final 6-2 6-4.

The French player has a composed 55-23 win-loss record in 2025, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Mariano Navone

Ranked no. 82, Mariano will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Shimabukuro in the qualifications on the 22^nd of September.

Mariano has a composed 29-27 win-loss record in 2025, 5-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title the Braunschweig Challenger where he defeated Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the final 6-3 7-5.

In terms of his career, Mariano has an overall 249-159 record. He has a negative 11-22 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st

round in 2024. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

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• Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-5 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luca NardiNardi – Sebastian OfnerOfner (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zizou BergsBergs – Sebastian KordaKorda (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Valentin VacherotVacherot – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sebastian BaezBaez – Zhizhen Zhang
  Zhang (2-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marin CilicCilic – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mattia BellucciBellucci – Adam WaltonWalton (7-6⁶ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (4-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – August HolmgrenHolmgren (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-1 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David GoffinGoffin – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-7⁶ 6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Zizou BergsBergs – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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• Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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