Andreas Seppi and Thomaz Bellucci will face off in the 2nd round of the Forli Challenger for the 5th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1 pm on Center Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andreas Seppi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andreas Seppi is the pick to win this match.
Andreas Seppi -> 1.63
Thomaz Bellucci -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Andreas Seppi vs. Thomaz Bellucci
This will be the 5th time that Andreas Seppi and Thomaz Bellucci play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Seppi (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Seppi won 3-6 7-63 6-3 in the final in Moscow back in 2012.
Andreas Seppi
Ranked no. 97, Seppi reached the final after beating Jules Okala 7-65 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Okala (7-65 6-2). During the match Seppi scored 72 points vs Okala’s 57. Seppi was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Seppi scored 4 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Andreas Seppi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Seppi put 56% of his first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the 2nd serve. Andreas broke Okala 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Seppi has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (292-264). 2-2 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Seppi has a 67-72 record in the last years on clay.
Seppi’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in New York.
Seppi has a 8-10 win-loss record in 2020, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Forli Challenger
The Italian didn’t compete in the Forli Challenger in 2019.
Thomaz Bellucci
Ranked no. 296, the Brazilian reached the final after beating Elliot Benchetrit 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Bellucci had a good straight sets win against Benchetrit (6-4 6-2). During the match Bellucci scored 68 points vs Benchetrit’s 46. Thomaz was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Bellucci blasted 2 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Thomaz Bellucci was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Thomaz broke Benchetrit 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Thomaz’s best result of the year was getting to the semi-finals in the Cleveland Challenger.
Bellucci has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2020, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Forli Challenger
Thomaz didn’t compete in the Forli Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Seppi | Bellucci |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 |
| Pts | 72-57 | 68-46 |
| Total Points | 129 | 114 |
| Winners | 20 | 23 |
| %Winners | 28% | 34% |
Both Seppi and Bellucci played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Seppi and Bellucci have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Seppi played 3 games more than Bellucci. The Italian scored 20 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Thomaz recorded 23 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Seppi | Bellucci |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 30/54 | 29/47 |
| %1st in | 56% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 12/18 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 67% |
Seppi made 4 aces . Bellucci fired 2 aces . Seppi won 67% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Bellucci won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Seppi | Bellucci |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 56% | 57% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 25% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. Thomaz broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Brazilian conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Seppi | |||
| R1 Okala |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 72-57 | 72-57 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/54 | 30/54 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 20/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/4 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 25% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Bellucci | |||
| R1 Benchetrit |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-46 | 68-46 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 29/47 | 29/47 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Forli Challenger
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Dayne KellyKelly (6-79 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (6-3 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Filippo BaldiBaldi (6-2 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Jules OkalaOkala (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (7-66 7-67) – See score progression
- Guilherme ClezarClezar – Matthias BachingerBachinger (7-68 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (4-6 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Thomaz BellucciBellucci – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Tsung-Hua YangYang (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (7-64 1-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Christian HarrisonHarrison (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-1 7-62) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Viktor GalovicGalovic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Federico CoriaCoria – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (7-5 3-6 4-2 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Thomaz BellucciBellucci – Andreas SeppiSeppi (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Alexander RitschardRitschard (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Guilherme ClezarClezar (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
