Frederico Ferreira Silva and Ilia Simakin will face off in the 2^nd round of the Suzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ilia Simakin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ilia Simakin is the pick to win this match.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.5
Frederico Ferreira Silva -> 2.46

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Prediction and head to head Frederico Ferreira Silva vs. Ilia Simakin

There is no head to head record between Frederico Ferreira Silva and Ilia Simakin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Frederico Ferreira Silva

Ranked no. 245, the Portuguese got to the 2^nd round after beating Maxim Zhukov 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round against Zhukov, Ferreira Silva recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-3). During the match, Ferreira Silva scored 122 points vs Zhukov’s 105. Ferreira Silva was pretty aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Talking about the service games, Ferreira Silva blasted 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Frederico Ferreira Silva was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (41/58) of his 1st serve and 53% (25/47) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Frederico broke Zhukov 6 times after converting 27% of his break points (6/22).

Ferreira Silva has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (353-232). 14-4 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ferreira Silva has a compiled 173-86 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

The Portuguese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio.

Frederico has an overall 29-19 win-loss record in 2025, 14-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Suzhou Challenger

Frederico has never competed in this tournament before.

Ilia Simakin

Ranked no. 254, Ilia reached the 2^nd

round after defeating Sho Shimabukuro 7-5 3-2 ret..

In the 1^st round against Shimabukuro, Ilia had a free pass after Shimabukuro retired on a 7-5 3-2 . scoreline.

Ilia’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Chisinau Challenger.

Simakin has an overall 37-17 win-loss record in 2025, 37-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ferreira Silva	Simakin
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	17
Pts	122-105	57-48
Total Points	227	105
Winners	41	21
%Winners	34%	37%

Both Ferreira Silva and Simakin played 1 match. At the moment, Frederico Ferreira Silva surrendered 1 set while Ilia Simakin hasn’t conceded a set so far. Talking about their workload, Ferreira Silva and Simakin have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Ferreira Silva played 14 games more than Simakin. The Portuguese scored 41 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Simakin bagged 21 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ferreira Silva	Simakin
Aces	4	0
Avg per match	4	0
1st in	58/105	32/51
%1st in	55%	63%
1st pts	41/58	21/32
%1st pts	71%	66%
2nd pts	25/47	13/19
%2nd pts	53%	68%

Ferreira Silva scored 4 aces . Simakin didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ferreira Silva won 71% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Simakin won 66% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ferreira Silva	Simakin
Won	6	3
Converted	6/22	3/3
% Converted	27%	100%
Conceded	10	4
Saved	7	3
% Saved	70%	75%
Times Broken	3	1

The Portuguese broke his opponent 6 times with a 27% conversion rate. The Portuguese surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. Simakin broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Simakin conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Ferreira Silva
	R1 Zhukov	Total
Score	6-75 6-3 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	31
pts	122-105	122-105
Total points	227	227
Winners	41	41
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	58/105	58/105
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	41/58	41/58
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	25/47	25/47
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/22	6/22
Converted %	27%	27%
Conceded	10	10
Saved	7/10	7
Saved %	70%	70%
Times Broken	3	3

Simakin
	R1 Shimabukuro	Total
Score	7-5 3-2 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	57-48	57-48
Total points	105	105
Winners	21	21
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	32/51	32/51
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	21/32	21/32
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	13/19	13/19
% 2nd pts	68%	68%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/3	3/3
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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