Giles Hussey and Michele Ribecai will face off in the qualifications of the Monastir Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michele Ribecai who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Michele Ribecai is the pick to win this match.
Michele Ribecai -> 1.68
Giles Hussey -> 2.1

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Prediction and head to head Giles Hussey vs. Michele Ribecai

There is no head to head record between Giles Hussey and Michele Ribecai since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Giles Hussey

Ranked no. 337, the Brit reached the qualifications after defeating Adil Kalyanpur 6-2 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Kalyanpur (6-2 6-1). During the match, Hussey scored 56 points vs Kalyanpur’s 30. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Regarding the service games, Hussey fired 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Giles Hussey was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (17/20) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Giles broke Kalyanpur 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Hussey has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (196-116). 37-17 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Hussey has a composed130-66 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Brit’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Madrid.

The Brit has a compiled 43-23 win-loss record in 2025, 37-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Monastir Challenger

Giles has never competed in this tournament before.

Michele Ribecai

Ranked no. 459 (career-high), Ribecai got to the qualifications after defeating Amir Omarkhanov 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, Ribecai had a good straight sets win against Omarkhanov (6-3 6-3). During the match Ribecai scored 61 points vs Omarkhanov’s 49. Ribecai was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about serving, Ribecai couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Michele Ribecai lost the serve once. Furthermore, Ribecai put 62% of his first serves in, winning 61% (19/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 79% (15/19) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Omarkhanov 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Litija,M15 Wels,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and M15 Monastir.

The Italian has a compiled 57-26 win-loss record in 2025, 19-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Hussey	Ribecai
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	18
Pts	56-30	61-49
Total Points	86	110
Winners	17	19
%Winners	30%	31%

Both Hussey and Ribecai played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hussey and Ribecai have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hussey played 3 games less than Ribecai. Giles scored 17 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian made 19 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Hussey	Ribecai
Aces	2	0
Avg per match	2	0
1st in	20/36	31/50
%1st in	56%	62%
1st pts	17/20	19/31
%1st pts	85%	61%
2nd pts	11/16	15/19
%2nd pts	69%	79%

Hussey blasted 2 aces . Ribecai didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Hussey won 85% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Ribecai won 61% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 79% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Hussey	Ribecai
Won	5	4
Converted	5/9	4/10
% Converted	56%	40%
Conceded	0	1
Saved	0	0
% Saved	0%	0%
Times Broken	0	1

The Brit broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Brit quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Michele broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Michele conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Hussey
	Q1 Kalyanpur	Total
Score	6-2 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	56-30	56-30
Total points	86	86
Winners	17	17
%Winners	30%	30%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	20/36	20/36
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	17/20	17/20
% 1st pts	85%	85%
2nd pts	11/16	11/16
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Ribecai
	Q1 Omarkhanov	Total
Score	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	61-49	61-49
Total points	110	110
Winners	19	19
%Winners	31%	31%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	31/50	31/50
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	19/31	19/31
% 1st pts	61%	61%
2nd pts	15/19	15/19
% 2nd pts	79%	79%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/10
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

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