Michael Geerts and Ioannis Xilas will play each other in the 1st round of the Abidjan 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:00 am on CENTRAL KAYDAN. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Geerts who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Michael Geerts is the pick to win this match.
Michael Geerts -> 1.65
Ioannis Xilas -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Ioannis Xilas
This will be the 2nd time that Michael Geerts and Ioannis Xilas square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Geerts (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Geerts won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Hersonissos 5 Challenger back in 2025.
Michael Geerts
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18-19 | 14-13 | 4-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 41-34 | 27-15 | 10-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 50-37 | 18-11 | 10-12 | 17-13 | 0-1 | 5-0 |
| 2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 292, Michael will start his run in the Abidjan 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Abidjan 1 Challenger where he lost 6-1 ret. to Bittoun in the 1st round on the 21st of April.
Geerts has a compiled 11-10 win-loss record in 2026, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Geerts’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Heraklion.
Talking about his overall career, Geerts has an overall 412-315 record. He has a positive 200-123 record on hard.
Previously in the Abidjan 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2025. See his history.
Ioannis Xilas
11 - 8win/loss
427
347
WLWWWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19-19 | 10-8 | 9-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 43-17 | 29-11 | 12-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 7-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-20 | 23-14 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 6-6 | 0-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 356, Ioannis will start his run in the Abidjan 2 Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Monastir where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-2 to William in the 2nd round on the 16th of April.
Ioannis has an overall 11-8 win-loss record in 2026, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Greek has an overall 126-83 record. He has a positive 85-58 record on hard.
Previously in the Abidjan 2 Challenger
Ioannis has never competed in this tournament before.
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Head 2 Head
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- Mert AlkayaAlkaya – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-7(5) 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mert AlkayaAlkaya – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-7(5) 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maks KasnikowskiKasnikowski – Cesar BouchelaghemBouchelaghem (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Paul JubbJubb – Digvijaypratap SinghSingh (7-6(0) 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Maxime ChazalChazal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael GeertsGeerts – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mert AlkayaAlkaya – Paul JubbJubb (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Florent BaxBax (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew FentyFenty – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
