Matteo Gigante and Stefano Napolitano will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Genova Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTRALE. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Gigante who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Gigante is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Gigante -> 1.333
Stefano Napolitano -> 3.08
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Gigante vs. Stefano Napolitano
There is no head to head record between Matteo Gigante and Stefano Napolitano since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Matteo Gigante
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-20 | 24-7 | 11-10 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 10-5 | 19-18 | 1-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 9-1 | 27-15 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-15 | 2-2 | 16-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-9 | 1-1 | 2-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 242 (career-high), the Italian reached the qualifications after defeating Lorenzo Bocchi 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Bocchi (6-3 6-3). During the match, Gigante scored 69 points vs Bocchi’s 52. Gigante was exceptionally aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gigante made 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Matteo Gigante was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (18/23) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Matteo broke Bocchi 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Gigante has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 60% of his matches (67-45). 25-14 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Gigante has a compiled49-29 win-loss record in the last 4 years on clay.
Matteo’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
Matteo has a compiled 36-18 win-loss record in 2022, 25-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Matteo has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-17 | 10-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-23 | 9-6 | 38-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 1-1 | 20-15 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-17 | 1-2 | 1-9 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 529, Napolitano got to the qualifications after beating Aleksandr Braynin 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Braynin (6-1 6-4). During the match Napolitano scored 57 points vs Braynin’s 41. Napolitano was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Napolitano bagged 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Stefano Napolitano was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Stefano broke Braynin 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Napolitano’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Bucharest,M15 Frascati and M25 Bolzano.
Napolitano has a compiled 22-21 win-loss record in 2022, 18-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gigante | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 69-52 | 57-41 |
| Total Points | 121 | 98 |
| Winners | 18 | 26 |
| %Winners | 26% | 46% |
Both Gigante and Napolitano played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gigante and Napolitano have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gigante played 1 game more than Napolitano. Matteo scored 18 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian struck 26 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gigante | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 23/48 | 31/52 |
| %1st in | 48% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 62% |
Gigante bagged 3 aces . Napolitano scored 3 aces . Gigante won 78% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Napolitano won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gigante | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 40% | 60% |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Gigante broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Italian dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Gigante | |||
| Q1 Bocchi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 69-52 | 69-52 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 23/48 | 23/48 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 18/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Napolitano | |||
| Q1 Braynin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 57-41 | 57-41 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 31/52 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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