Nicolai Budkov Kjaer and Henry Bernet will face off in the 2^nd round of the Roanne Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 9:00 pm on CENTRAL A.VACHERESSE. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolai Budkov Kjaer who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nicolai Budkov Kjaer is the pick to win this match.
Nicolai Budkov Kjaer -> 1.29
Henry Bernet -> 3.36

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Prediction and head to head Nicolai Budkov Kjaer vs. Henry Bernet

There is no head to head record between Nicolai Budkov Kjaer and Henry Bernet since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Nicolai Budkov Kjaer

Ranked no. 149 (career-high), Nicolai reached the 2^nd round after defeating Vitaliy Sachko 6-7(4) 6-2 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Sachko, Budkov Kjaer recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁴ 6-2 6-4). During the match, Budkov Kjaer scored 104 points vs Sachko’s 91. The Norwegian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 52 winners.

Regarding the service games, Budkov Kjaer made 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Nicolai Budkov Kjaer lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Budkov Kjaer put 66% of his first serves in, winning 83% (52/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (12/32) on the 2nd serve. Nicolai broke Sachko 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Budkov Kjaer has a solid match record in the last 3 years having won 68% of his matches (75-36). 21-6 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Budkov Kjaer has an aggregate23-7 record in the last 3 years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Glasgow Challenger where he beat Viktor Durasovic in the final 6-4 6-3 and the Tampere Challenger where he beat Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg in the final 7-6(5) 6-7(2) 6-2 and the Astana Challenger where he beat Alexandr Binda in the final 6-4 6-3 and the Captif Challenger where he defeated Patrick Kypson in the final 6-0 6-3.

Nicolai has a composed 49-23 win-loss record in 2025, 21-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Roanne Challenger

Nicolai has never competed in this tournament before.

Henry Bernet

Ranked no. 503 (career-high), Bernet got to the 2^nd round after beating Filip Misolic 3-6 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Misolic, Henry recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Bernet scored 92 points vs Misolic’s 76. Bernet was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.

About the serving games, Bernet struck 15 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Henry Bernet was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (39/47) of his 1st serve and 53% (21/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Swiss was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Misolic 3 times.

Henry’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Muttenz and M25 Lausanne.

Henry has a composed 16-6 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Budkov Kjaer	Bernet
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	28
Pts	104-91	92-76
Total Points	195	168
Winners	52	39
%Winners	50%	42%

Both Budkov Kjaer and Bernet played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Nicolai Budkov Kjaer surrendered 1 set, while Henry Bernet surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Budkov Kjaer and Bernet have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Budkov Kjaer played 3 games more than Bernet. Budkov Kjaer scored 52 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Bernet bagged 39 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Budkov Kjaer	Bernet
Aces	10	15
Avg per match	10	15
1st in	63/95	47/87
%1st in	66%	54%
1st pts	52/63	39/47
%1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	12/32	21/40
%2nd pts	38%	53%

Budkov Kjaer recorded 10 aces . Bernet struck 15 aces . Budkov Kjaer won 83% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Bernet won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Budkov Kjaer	Bernet
Won	4	3
Converted	4/10	3/3
% Converted	40%	100%
Conceded	5	9
Saved	4	7
% Saved	80%	78%
Times Broken	1	2

Budkov Kjaer broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Nicolai lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Bernet broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Henry conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.

Budkov Kjaer
	R1 Sachko	Total
Score	6-74 6-2 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	31
pts	104-91	104-91
Total points	195	195
Winners	52	52
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	63/95	63/95
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	52/63	52/63
% 1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	12/32	12/32
% 2nd pts	38%	38%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/10
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

Bernet
	R1 Misolic	Total
Score	3-6 6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	92-76	92-76
Total points	168	168
Winners	39	39
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	15	15
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	47/87	47/87
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	39/47	39/47
% 1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	21/40	21/40
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/3	3/3
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	7/9	7
Saved %	78%	78%
Times Broken	2	2

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