Lexington: Andre Ilagan vs Edas Butvilas

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Market context

Polymarket’s contract is marked at **0% YES** on a winner being determined for Andre Ilagan against Edas Butvilas, which means the market is currently pricing in no positive chance for an Andre Ilagan advance within the settlement terms. Because the contract settles on the named player advancing, or flips to 50-50 only if the match is not played, ends tied, or is delayed beyond seven days without a winner, traders on USDC-backed Polygon conditional tokens are mainly exposed to schedule and completion risk rather than abstract match strength.

The only recent direct head-to-head in the data available favours Ilagan: he beat Butvilas 2-0 in Tyler on hard court in June 2026, and several live-score and H2H pages record that result.[2][4][10][11][12] That said, pre-match pricing elsewhere has not treated the pairing as lopsided; one preview for that earlier meeting had Butvilas as the outsider favourite, with the match going to Ilagan in straight sets.[8] For a Polymarket user, that means the 0% reading is better read as a contract-price anomaly or stale market state than as a clean reflection of tennis form.

The practical catalysts are straightforward: whether Lexington posts the match to the schedule, whether the draw and order of play remain intact, and whether either player withdraws or the event is delayed past the settlement window. Sofascore lists Ilagan’s next match as being against Butvilas in Lexington on 9 August 2026, which supports that the fixture was on the board at the time of publication.[13] If the match is not played at all, or a winner is not determined within the seven-day delay rule, the market resolves 50-50 rather than to either player, so traders should watch official tournament updates and scoreboards more than pre-match chatter.

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Methodology

We track Lexington: Andre Ilagan vs Edas Butvilas across the five venues with material prediction-market liquidity. The probability shown is the live Polymarket mid; the comparison rows summarise how each venue treats the underlying contract — fees, KYC thresholds, settlement currency, deposit options. The highlighted row marks the cheapest route into Polymarket's order book.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

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