Ilia Simakin

and Petr Brunclik will square off in the 2^nd round of the Monastir Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and 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 -> 1.7
Petr Brunclik -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Ilia Simakin vs. Petr Brunclik

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

Ilia Simakin

Ranked no. 276, Simakin got to the 2^nd round after defeating Max Houkes 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Ilia had a good straight sets win against Houkes (6-2 6-3). During the match, Simakin scored 69 points vs Houkes’s 46. Simakin was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about the service games, Simakin recorded 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Ilia Simakin lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Simakin put 63% of his first serves in, winning 81% (29/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Ilia broke Houkes 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Simakin has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 67% of his matches (156-78). 38-17 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Simakin has an overall145-68 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.

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

Simakin has an overall 38-18 win-loss record in 2025, 38-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Monastir Challenger

Simakin has never competed in this tournament before.

Petr Brunclik

Ranked no. 379, Petr got to the 2^nd round after defeating Matteo Martineau 7-6(5) 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Petr had a good straight sets win against Martineau (7-6⁵ 6-3). During the match Brunclik scored 84 points vs Martineau’s 78. Brunclik was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Talking about serving, Brunclik bagged 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Petr Brunclik conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Brunclik put 68% of his first serves in, winning 70% (42/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Martineau once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

Petr’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo.

The Czech has a composed 37-20 win-loss record in 2025, 21-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Simakin	Brunclik
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	22
Pts	69-46	84-78
Total Points	115	162
Winners	29	42
%Winners	42%	50%

Both Simakin and Brunclik played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Simakin and Brunclik have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Simakin played 5 games less than Brunclik. Ilia scored 29 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Petr fired 42 winners (50%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Simakin	Brunclik
Aces	2	3
Avg per match	2	3
1st in	36/57	60/88
%1st in	63%	68%
1st pts	29/36	42/60
%1st pts	81%	70%
2nd pts	10/21	18/28
%2nd pts	48%	64%

Simakin fired 2 aces . Brunclik blasted 3 aces . Simakin won 81% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Brunclik won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Simakin	Brunclik
Won	4	1
Converted	4/10	1/5
% Converted	40%	20%
Conceded	8	3
Saved	7	3
% Saved	88%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Ilia broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Russian lost his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. Petr broke his opponent once with a 20% conversion rate. The Czech was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Simakin
	R1 Houkes	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	69-46	69-46
Total points	115	115
Winners	29	29
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	36/57	36/57
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	29/36	29/36
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	10/21	10/21
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/10
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	7/8	7
Saved %	88%	88%
Times Broken	1	1

Brunclik
	R1 Martineau	Total
Score	7-65 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	84-78	84-78
Total points	162	162
Winners	42	42
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	60/88	60/88
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	42/60	42/60
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	18/28	18/28
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	1	1
Converted	1/5	1/5
Converted %	20%	20%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Monastir Challenger

• Sergio Callejon HernandoCallejon Hernando – Gauthier OnclinOnclin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Jan KumstatKumstat – Aziz OuakaaOuakaa (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Dan AddedAdded – Mathys ErhardErhard (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Mert AlkayaAlkaya – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Francesco FortiForti (6-4 6-7(2) 7-5) – See score progression
• Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Giles HusseyHussey (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Robin BertrandBertrand (7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – George LoffhagenLoffhagen (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Pedro Vives MarcosVives Marcos – Tiago PereiraPereira (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Luka MikrutMikrut – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Eliakim CoulibalyCoulibaly – Anas Bennour Dit SahliBennour Dit Sahli (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Petr BrunclikBrunclik – Matteo MartineauMartineau (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ilia SimakinSimakin – Max HoukesHoukes (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Clement TaburTabur (6-7¹¹ 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Luka MikrutMikrut – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Robin BertrandBertrand (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
• Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Giles HusseyHussey (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – George LoffhagenLoffhagen (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Pedro Vives MarcosVives Marcos – Tiago PereiraPereira (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Dan AddedAdded – Mathys ErhardErhard (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Jan KumstatKumstat – Aziz OuakaaOuakaa (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Mert AlkayaAlkaya – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pedro Vives MarcosVives Marcos – Dan AddedAdded (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco FortiForti – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction