Salvatore Caruso and Tomas Machac will square off in the 2^nd round of the Parma Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tomas Machac is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Machac -> 1.77
Salvatore Caruso -> 2.01

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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Tomas Machac

There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Tomas Machac since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Salvatore Caruso

Ranked no. 85, Salvatore got to the 2^nd round after beating Hugo Grenier 4-6 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Grenier, Caruso recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Caruso scored 92 points vs Grenier’s 80. Caruso was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Caruso struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 68% of his first serves in, winning 66% (37/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the 2nd serve. Caruso broke Grenier 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Caruso has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (302-231). 5-6 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Caruso has a 185-126 record in the last 8 years on clay.

The Italian has a 12-14 win-loss record in 2020, 5-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Parma Challenger

Salvatore didn’t play in the Parma Challenger in 2019.

Tomas Machac

Ranked no. 253, Tomas reached the 2^nd round after beating Alexey Vatutin 6-0 6-2, Juan Pablo Ficovich 6-4 6-4 and Juan Pablo Varillas 6-2 4-2 ret..

In the 1^st round, Machac had a good straight sets win against Pablo Patino-Samudio (6-2 4-2 ret.). During the match Machac scored 50 points vs Pablo Patino-Samudio’s 25. Machac was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Machac scored 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Tomas Machac lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Machac put 65% of his first serves in, winning 77% (20/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. Tomas broke Pablo Patino-Samudio 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

Machac’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Koblenz Challenger.

Tomas has a 17-7 win-loss record in 2020, 10-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Parma Challenger

The Czech didn’t compete in the Parma Challenger in 2019.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Caruso played 1 match while Machac competed in 2 matches. Machac started his run from the qualifications while Caruso had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Salvatore Caruso conceded 1 set while Tomas Machac hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Caruso has played 1 set(s) less than Machac (3 vs 4). Therefore, Caruso played 5 games less than Machac. Caruso scored 37 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Tomas fired 54 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Caruso blasted 2 aces . Machac fired 4 aces (2 per match). Caruso won 66% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Machac won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Salvatore broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Italian lost his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponents 7 times with a 44% conversion rate. Tomas was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Salvatore
Caruso

1:0

Tomas
Machac

Rank

534

High

76

1Clay0

Rank

39

High

33

Win Loss

Caruso

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Machac

LLWWLWWWWL

2024 2023 2022

11 - 10

22 - 11

8-9

Hard

12-6

0-0

I Hard

2-1

3-1

Clay

8-3

Tennis Scores in Parma Challenger

• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Hugo GrenierGrenier (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Blaz RolaRola (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Andreas SeppiSeppi (6-1 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Denis IstominIstomin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (1-6 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Alexandre MullerMuller – Maxime CressyCressy (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Laslo DjereDjere – Jason JungJung (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Gianluca MagerMager – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Filippo BaldiBaldi – Taro DanielDaniel (5-7 7-6⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (7-6⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Federico GaioGaio (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Tomas MachacMachac – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-2 4-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Sumit NagalNagal – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Andreas SeppiSeppi (6-1 7-6(6)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Paolo LorenziLorenzi (5-3) – H2H and prediction
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Filippo BaldiBaldi – Gianluca MagerMager (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Sumit NagalNagal – Laslo DjereDjere (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexandre MullerMuller – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-1) – H2H and prediction

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