Ilia Simakin and Max Houkes will play each other in the 1st round of the Monastir Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ilia Simakin is the pick to win this match.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.112
Max Houkes -> 5.75
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Prediction and head to head Ilia Simakin vs. Max Houkes
There is no head to head record between Ilia Simakin and Max Houkes since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-22 | 43-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 62-22 | 55-21 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-19 | 28-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-17 | 24-12 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 254, Simakin will start his run in the Monastir Challenger after he played his last match in the Suzhou Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-2 to Ferreira Silva in the 2nd round on the 23rd of October.
Ilia has an overall 37-18 win-loss record in 2025, 37-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Russian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Chisinau Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Russian has an overall 155-78 record. He has a positive 144-68 record on hard.
Previously in the Monastir Challenger
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53-33 | 9-4 | 44-27 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-17 | 0-0 | 44-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 307, will start his run in the Monastir Challenger after he won the title in M25 Kigali after beating 6-3 3-6 6-1 Dlimi in the final.
Houkes has a compiled 44-29 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
The Dutch’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula,M25 Ueberlingen,M25 Meerbusch and M25 Kigali.
Max won his last 5 matches.
In terms of his career, The Dutch has an overall 293-157 record. He has a negative 14-15 record on hard.
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