Valentin Royer and Gilles Arnaud Bailly will play each other in the qualifications of the European Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 2 sets.
Valentin Royer -> 1.33
Gilles Arnaud Bailly -> 3.125
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Gilles Arnaud Bailly
There is no head to head record between Valentin Royer and Gilles Arnaud Bailly since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Valentin Royer
57 - 24win/loss
58
56
| 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. 76 (career-high), Royer reached the qualifications after defeating Daniel Merida Aguilar 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, Royer had a good straight sets win against Merida Aguilar (6-3 7-5). During the match, Royer scored 65 points vs Merida Aguilar’s 47. Royer was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Royer made 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Valentin Royer was pretty efficient on serve to win 77% (30/39) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The French player broke Merida Aguilar 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Royer has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (265-140). 6-3 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Royer has an overall57-42 record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Kigali 1 Challenger where he beat 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.
Royer has a composed 57-24 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Brussels
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Gilles Arnaud Bailly
63 - 22win/loss
204
201
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74-25 | 29-9 | 42-14 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-15 | 2-1 | 10-13 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-24 | 2-2 | 24-16 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-6 | 4-2 | 4-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 252 (career-high), Gilles got to the qualifications after beating Marco Trungelliti 6-3 7-6(6).
In the qualifications, Arnaud had a good straight sets win against Trungelliti (6-3 7-66). During the match Arnaud scored 72 points vs Trungelliti’s 56. The Belgian was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Arnaud recorded 4 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Gilles Arnaud Bailly was extremely effective on serve to win 84% (31/37) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Belgian broke Trungelliti 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Arnaud’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir,M15 Antalya,M15 Oegstgeest,M25 Uriage,M25 Koksijde,the Porto 2 Challenger and M25 Meerbusch.
The Belgian has a compiled 63-22 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Brussels
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022 and 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Royer | Arnaud |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 22 |
| Pts | 65-47 | 72-56 |
| Total Points | 112 | 128 |
| Winners | 30 | 31 |
| %Winners | 46% | 43% |
Both Royer and Arnaud 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 Arnaud have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Royer played 1 game less than Arnaud. The French player scored 30 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Belgian made 31 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Royer | Arnaud |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
| 1st in | 39/58 | 37/64 |
| %1st in | 67% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 31/37 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/27 |
| %2nd pts | 74% | 52% |
Royer recorded 9 aces . Arnaud bagged 4 aces . Royer won 77% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Arnaud won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Royer | Arnaud |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The French player broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Royer conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Gilles broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Belgian conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Royer | |||
| Q1 Merida | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 65-47 | 65-47 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/58 | 39/58 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 30/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Arnaud | |||
| Q1 Trungelliti | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-56 | 72-56 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/64 | 37/64 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 31/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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