Matteo Viola and Michael Vrbensky will face off in the 1st round of the Forli 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 7:30 pm on GENCOM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Viola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Viola is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Viola -> 1.51
Michael Vrbensky -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Viola vs. Michael Vrbensky
There is no head to head record between Matteo Viola and Michael Vrbensky since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Matteo Viola
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-33 | 7-9 | 4-13 | 10-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 6-2 | 4-7 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2019 | 28-30 | 16-8 | 3-9 | 8-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 38-30 | 10-4 | 14-17 | 7-4 | 3-2 | 4-3 |
Ranked no. 303, the Italian will start his run in the Forli 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Maia 2 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Hsin in the 1st round on the 15th of December.
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, Viola has an overall 423-359 record. He has a negative 70-71 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Forli 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021 and 2021. See his history.
Michael Vrbensky
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-27 | 4-4 | 32-18 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 58-28 | 11-6 | 44-21 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-27 | 7-3 | 37-16 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 17-24 | 2-1 | 14-21 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-15 | 2-2 | 14-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 372, Michael reached the 1st round after beating Pietro Buscaglione 6-1 6-1 and Marco Miceli 2-6 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications against Miceli, Vrbensky recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 7-5).During the match Vrbensky scored less points (3) than Miceli. In fact, the world no. 303 won 108 points vs Miceli’s. That means that Vrbensky was more focused during the important points. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Vrbensky struck 7 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Michael Vrbensky lost the serve 6 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Vrbensky put 54% of his first serves in, winning 66% (38/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (19/50) on the 2nd serve. Vrbensky broke Miceli 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Vrbensky started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Michael has a composed 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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