Enrico Dalla Valle and Michael Geerts will play each other in the 1st round of the Villena Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on PISTA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.86
Enrico Dalla Valle -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Enrico Dalla Valle vs. Michael Geerts
This will be the 2nd time that Enrico Dalla Valle and Michael Geerts square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Dalla Valle (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Dalla Valle won 7-6(3) 4-6 6-1 in the 1st round in the Maia Challenger back in 2023.
Enrico Dalla Valle
33 - 27win/loss
280
242
LLLWLWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-30 | 7-8 | 26-21 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-27 | 8-6 | 33-17 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 16-14 | 0-0 | 16-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-7 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-10 | 5-5 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 266, the Italian will start his run in the Villena Challenger after he played his last match in the Lisbon Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(4) to Agustin Tirante in the 1st round on the 26th of September.
Dalla Valle has a composed 33-27 win-loss record in 2024, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Enrico’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Reggio Emilia and the Milan Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 235-195 record. He has a positive 65-49 record on hard.
Previously in the Villena Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Geerts
39 - 31win/loss
295
212
LWLWWLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-36 | 17-10 | 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 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 339, Michael reached the 1st round after beating Peter Heller 6-4 6-2 and Ivan Marrero Curbelo 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Geerts had a good straight sets win against Marrero Curbelo (6-2 6-3). During the match Geerts scored 64 points vs Marrero Curbelo’s 43. The Belgian was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Geerts managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Michael Geerts was exceptionally effective on serve to win 75% (21/28) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Michael broke Marrero Curbelo 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Belgian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Michael’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Martos and M25 Castelo Branco.
Michael has an overall 39-31 win-loss record in 2024, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- David Jorda SanchisJorda Sanchis – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – Michael GeertsGeerts (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Jules MarieMarie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Giovanni FonioFonio (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jakub PaulPaul – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – H2H and prediction
