Elias Ymer and Dragos Nicolae Cazacu will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Islamabad Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:00 pm on AQEEL KHAN CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elias Ymer who should win in 2 sets.
Elias Ymer -> 1.139
Dragos Nicolae Cazacu -> 4.8
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Prediction and head to head Elias Ymer vs. Dragos Nicolae Cazacu
There is no head to head record between Elias Ymer and Dragos Nicolae Cazacu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Elias Ymer
35 - 31win/loss
172
105
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-31 | 11-7 | 16-20 | 7-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-32 | 7-15 | 6-9 | 8-7 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-41 | 10-13 | 24-17 | 7-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-32 | 12-11 | 20-15 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-29 | 9-9 | 20-11 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 172, the Swede will start his run in the Islamabad Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 3-0 ret. to Bigun in the 1st round on the 17th of November.
Elias has a compiled 35-31 win-loss record in 2025, 11-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Ymer’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Chennai Challenger and the Kobe Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Swede has an overall 435-364 record. He has a negative 91-105 record on hard.
Previously in the Islamabad Challenger
Ymer has never competed in this tournament before.
Dragos Nicolae Cazacu
24 - 32win/loss
881
763
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-32 | 2-2 | 21-29 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-28 | 0-0 | 36-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-27 | 0-2 | 24-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 881, the Romanian reached the 2nd round after beating Preston Brown 7-6(2) 6-4
.In the 1st round, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Brown (7-62 6-4). During the match Nicolae scored 83 points vs Brown’s 71. Dragos was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Nicolae bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Dragos Nicolae Cazacu was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (41/55) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dragos broke Brown twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
The Romanian has a compiled 24-32 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Islamabad Challenger
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Dinko DinevDinev (6-2 6-71 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominik PalanPalan – Leonardo BorrelliBorrelli (7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zach StephensStephens – Nikita BilozertsevBilozertsev (4-6 7-62 5-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vadym UrsuUrsu – Timofei DerepaskoDerepasko (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Muzammil MurtazaMurtaza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Johan NiklesNikles – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vadym UrsuUrsu – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction