Vit Kopriva and Stefano Napolitano will square off in the 2nd round of the Madrid Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vit Kopriva who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vit Kopriva is the pick to win this match.
Vit Kopriva -> 1.86
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Vit Kopriva vs. Stefano Napolitano
There is no head to head record between Vit Kopriva and Stefano Napolitano since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Vit Kopriva
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 33-25 | 13-9 | 15-14 | 2-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 35-27 | 1-4 | 34-21 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 39-28 | 7-5 | 30-18 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 36-26 | 1-3 | 32-21 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 24-15 | 0-0 | 17-11 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 121, the Czech got to the 2nd round after beating Martin Landaluce 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Landaluce (6-3 6-3). During the match, Kopriva scored 62 points vs Landaluce’s 45. The Czech was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kopriva recorded 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Vit Kopriva was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kopriva was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Landaluce 4 times.
Kopriva has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (319-221). 1-0 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kopriva has a compiled236-150 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
Vit has an aggregate 12-8 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Madrid Challenger
Vit has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefano Napolitano
11 - 5win/loss
159
121
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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. 158, Stefano reached the 2nd round after defeating Vilius Gaubas 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Napolitano had a good straight sets win against Gaubas (6-3 6-2). During the match Napolitano scored 65 points vs Gaubas’s 43. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Napolitano scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Stefano Napolitano was very effective on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Stefano broke Gaubas 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Bengaluru Challenger where he overcame Seong Chan Hong in the final 4-6 6-3 6-3.
The Italian has a compiled 11-5 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kopriva | Napolitano |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
Pts | 62-45 | 65-43 |
Total Points | 107 | 108 |
Winners | 26 | 25 |
%Winners | 42% | 38% |
Both Kopriva and Napolitano played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kopriva and Napolitano have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kopriva played 1 game more than Napolitano. Vit scored 26 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 25 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kopriva | Napolitano |
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Aces | 3 | 1 |
Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
1st in | 36/55 | 34/51 |
%1st in | 65% | 67% |
1st pts | 26/36 | 25/34 |
%1st pts | 72% | 74% |
2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/17 |
%2nd pts | 63% | 71% |
Kopriva fired 3 aces . Napolitano blasted 1 ace . Kopriva won 72% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Napolitano won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kopriva | Napolitano |
---|---|---|
Won | 4 | 4 |
Converted | 4/4 | 4/7 |
% Converted | 100% | 57% |
Conceded | 2 | 0 |
Saved | 1 | 0 |
% Saved | 50% | 0% |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Vit broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Kopriva dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Stefano broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
Kopriva | |||
R1 Landaluce |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
pts | 62-45 | 62-45 | |
Total points | 107 | 107 | |
Winners | 26 | 26 | |
%Winners | 42% | 42% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 36/55 | 36/55 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
1st pts | 26/36 | 26/36 | |
% 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Napolitano | |||
R1 Gaubas |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
pts | 65-43 | 65-43 | |
Total points | 108 | 108 | |
Winners | 25 | 25 | |
%Winners | 38% | 38% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 34/51 | 34/51 | |
% 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
% 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Madrid Challenger
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-1 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-4 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Leandro RiediRiedi – Ignacio BuseBuse (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Harold MayotMayot – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-2 1-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Daniel RinconRincon (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Vilius GaubasGaubas (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Martin LandaluceLandaluce (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Taro DanielDaniel (6-71 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-4 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Daniel RinconRincon (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Leandro RiediRiedi – Ignacio BuseBuse (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Harold MayotMayot – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-2 1-6 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Benoit PairePaire (4-6 6-3 4-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-1 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Jurij RodionovRodionov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction