Federico Gaio and Elliot Benchetrit will square off in the 2nd round of the Lisbon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on COURT LISBOA. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Federico Gaio who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Federico Gaio is the pick to win this match.
Federico Gaio -> 1.40
Elliot Benchetrit -> 2.75

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Prediction and head to head Federico Gaio vs. Elliot Benchetrit

There is no head to head record between Federico Gaio and Elliot Benchetrit since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Federico Gaio

Ranked no. 136, the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Zdenek Kolar 6-3 6-3.

In the 1st round, Gaio had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-3 6-3). During the match Gaio scored 65 points vs Kolar’s 43. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gaio struck 3 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Federico Gaio was quite effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 88% (15/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Federico broke Kolar 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Gaio has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (387-287). 7-10 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Gaio has a 256-176 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Federico’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Bangkok Challenger.

Federico has a 12-14 win-loss record in 2020, 7-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Lisbon Challenger

Gaio lost in the 1st round to Gastao Elias.

Elliot Benchetrit

Ranked no. 225, Elliot got to the 2nd round after beating Renzo Olivo 6-3 7-67.

In the 1st round, Benchetrit had a good straight sets win against Olivo (6-3 7-67). During the match Benchetrit scored 83 points vs Olivo’s 73. Benchetrit was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Benchetrit struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Elliot Benchetrit was pretty efficent on serve to win 73% (32/44) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Elliot broke Olivo 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Elliot has a 7-11 win-loss record in 2020, 2-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Lisbon Challenger

Elliot lost in the quarter to Roberto Carballes Baena.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Gaio Benchetrit
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 22
Pts 65-43 83-73
Total Points 108 156
Winners 21 32
%Winners 32% 39%

Both Gaio and Benchetrit played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gaio and Benchetrit have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gaio played 4 games less than Benchetrit. Federico scored 21 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Elliot scored 32 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Gaio Benchetrit
Aces 3 2
Avg per match 3 2
1st in 27/44 44/77
%1st in 61% 57%
1st pts 21/27 32/44
%1st pts 78% 73%
2nd pts 15/17 18/33
%2nd pts 88% 55%

Gaio made 3 aces . Benchetrit made 2 aces . Gaio won 78% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 88% of the points. On the other side, Benchetrit won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Gaio Benchetrit
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/8
% Converted 43% 38%
Conceded 0 6
Saved 0 4
% Saved NAN% 67%
Times Broken 0 2

The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Gaio had a solid display on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Benchetrit broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Elliot conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Gaio
R1
Kolar		 Total
Score 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 65-43 65-43
Total points 108 108
Winners 21 21
%Winners 32% 32%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 27/44 27/44
% 1st in 61% 61%
1st pts 21/27 21/27
% 1st pts 78% 78%
2nd pts 15/17 15/17
% 2nd pts 88% 88%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % – 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Benchetrit
R1
Olivo		 Total
Score 6-3 7-67
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
pts 83-73 83-73
Total points 156 156
Winners 32 32
%Winners 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 44/77 44/77
% 1st in 57% 57%
1st pts 32/44 32/44
% 1st pts 73% 73%
2nd pts 18/33 18/33
% 2nd pts 55% 55%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/8 3/8
Converted % 38% 38%
Conceded 6 6
Saved 4/6 4
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 2 2

Tennis Scores in Lisbon Challenger

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