Sergey Fomin and Maximilian Homberg will square off in the 2nd round of the Manama 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sergey Fomin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sergey Fomin is the pick to win this match.
Sergey Fomin -> 1.22
Maximilian Homberg -> 3.74
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Prediction and head to head Sergey Fomin vs. Maximilian Homberg
This will be the 2nd time that Sergey Fomin and Maximilian Homberg play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fomin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Fomin won 6-4 6-1 in the semifinal in M25 Manama back in November 2025.
Sergey Fomin
60 - 29win/loss
343
343
LWWWWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61-30 | 30-16 | 31-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-23 | 15-12 | 13-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-32 | 13-15 | 22-14 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-25 | 24-15 | 9-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-24 | 0-2 | 11-14 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 358, the Uzbek reached the 2nd round after defeating Dali Blanch 6-7(2) 7-6(1) 6-3.
In the 1st round against Blanch, The Uzbek recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 7-61 6-3). During the match, Fomin scored 109 points vs Blanch’s 104. Sergey was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Fomin blasted 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Sergey Fomin lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Fomin put 53% of his first serves in, winning 63% (37/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (31/53) on the 2nd serve. Fomin broke Blanch 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Fomin has good match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (221-187). 29-15 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Fomin has a compiled 96-85 record in the last years on hard.
Sergey’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Antalya,M15 Shymkent,M25 Qian Daohu and M25 Manama.
Fomin has an overall 60-29 win-loss record in 2025, 29-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama 2 Challenger
The Uzbek has never competed in this tournament before.
Maximilian Homberg
24 - 20win/loss
821
812
LWWWLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-21 | 10-6 | 14-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-7 | 1-1 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 2-5 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 868, Maximilian got to the 2nd round after beating Michael Bassem Sobhy 6-2 6-2, Matthew Summers 6-3 6-0 and Aziz Ouakaa 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Homberg had a good straight sets win against Ouakaa (6-2 7-5). During the match Homberg scored 72 points vs Ouakaa’s 56. Homberg was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Homberg struck 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Maximilian Homberg lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Homberg put 59% of his first serves in, winning 73% (27/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Maximilian broke Ouakaa 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
The German’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Manama.
The German has an overall 24-20 win-loss record in 2025, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fomin | Homberg |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 51 |
| Pts | 109-104 | 191-131 |
| Total Points | 213 | 322 |
| Winners | 37 | 70 |
| %Winners | 34% | 37% |
Fomin played 1 match while Homberg competed in 3 matches. Homberg started his run from the qualifications while Fomin had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Sergey Fomin conceded 1 set while Maximilian Homberg hasn’t dropped a set so far. Fomin has played 3 set(s) less than Homberg (3 vs 6). Therefore, Fomin played 16 games less than Homberg. Fomin scored 37 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The German bagged 70 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fomin | Homberg |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 59/112 | 92/161 |
| %1st in | 53% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 37/59 | 70/92 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 31/53 | 34/69 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 49% |
Fomin bagged 2 aces . Homberg managed to score 6 aces (2 per match). Fomin won 63% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Homberg won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fomin | Homberg |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 15 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 15/27 |
| % Converted | 45% | 56% |
| Conceded | 9 | 12 |
| Saved | 5 | 8 |
| % Saved | 56% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 |
Fomin broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Uzbek conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. Maximilian broke his opponents 15 times with a 56% conversion rate. Maximilian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Fomin | |||
| R1 Blanch |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-72 7-61 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 109-104 | 109-104 | |
| Total points | 213 | 213 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 59/112 | 59/112 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 37/59 | 37/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 31/53 | 31/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 5/9 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 56% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Homberg | |||||
| Q1 Bassem |
Q3 Summers |
R1 Ouakaa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-3 6-0 | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 15 | 20 | 51 | |
| pts | 61-40 | 58-35 | 72-56 | 191-131 | |
| Total points | 101 | 93 | 128 | 322 | |
| Winners | 19 | 24 | 27 | 70 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 41% | 38% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 | |
| 1st in | 29/52 | 26/46 | 37/63 | 92/161 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 57% | 59% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 19/29 | 24/26 | 27/37 | 70/92 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 92% | 73% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 9/20 | 12/26 | 34/69 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 45% | 46% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 5 | 15 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 4/5 | 5/12 | 15/27 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 80% | 42% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 0 | 6 | 12 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 0/0 | 4/6 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 67% | – | 67% | 134% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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