Tristan Schoolkate and Matej Dodig will face off in the 1st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matej Dodig who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Matej Dodig is the pick to win this match.
Matej Dodig -> 1.82
Tristan Schoolkate -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Tristan Schoolkate vs. Matej Dodig

There is no head to head record between Tristan Schoolkate and Matej Dodig since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tristan Schoolkate

Tristan Schoolkate

44 - 35win/loss

Hard
33-25
I Hard
2-4
Clay
0-2
Grass
9-4
Rank
100
High
95
LLLWLWLLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 44-36 33-25 0-2 2-5 9-4 0-0
2024 44-33 38-24 0-2 0-2 6-5 0-0
2023 44-30 30-23 4-4 2-2 8-1 0-0
2022 48-29 24-15 17-11 0-0 7-3 0-0
2021 24-20 8-9 3-5 11-5 0-0 2-1

Ranked no. 97, the Australian will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match in Metz where he lost 6-4 6-7(2) 7-6(5) to Added in the qualifications on the 1st of November.

Tristan has an aggregate 44-35 win-loss record in 2025, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Brisbane 1 Challenger where he beat Marek Gengel in the final 7-6(3) 7-6(4) and the Ilkley Challenger where he overcame Jack Pinnington Jones in the final 6-7(8) 6-4 6-3.

Talking about his overall career, Tristan has an overall 214-156 record. He has a positive 15-13 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Schoolkate has never competed in this tournament before.

Lyon Challenger
Schoolkate's Record

Matej Dodig

Matej Dodig

34 - 30win/loss

Clay
24-22
Rank
236
High
236
LWWWWLWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 36-31 0-0 24-22 12-9 0-0 0-0
2024 46-26 14-5 30-20 2-1 0-0 0-0
2023 43-16 1-2 38-12 2-1 0-0 2-1

Ranked no. 242 (career-high), Matej got to the 1st round after beating Jakub Paul 7-5 6-1 and Dan Added 7-6(4) 6-3.

In the qualifications, Dodig had a good straight sets win against Added (7-64 6-3). During the match Dodig scored 76 points vs Added’s 66. Matej was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about serving, Dodig managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Matej Dodig was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (40/51) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Matej broke Added once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Matej started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Trieste Challenger where he overcame Thiago Agustin Tirante in the final 6-3 6-4.

The Croatian has a compiled 34-30 win-loss record in 2025, 10-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Lyon Challenger
Dodig's Record

Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger

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