Sebastian Ofner and Giulio Zeppieri will face off in the 2nd round of the Rome 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CAMPO 3. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.84
Sebastian Ofner -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Ofner vs. Giulio Zeppieri
There is no head to head record between Sebastian Ofner and Giulio Zeppieri since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Sebastian Ofner
Ranked no. 154, the Austrian got to the 2nd round after defeating Alex Molcan 6-77 6-0 6-3.
In the 1st round against Molcan, Ofner recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-77 6-0 6-3). During the match Ofner scored 99 points vs Molcan’s 76. Ofner was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ofner scored 10 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Sebastian Ofner was very efficient on serve to win 76% (39/51) of his 1st serve and 58% (23/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sebastian broke Molcan 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Ofner has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 57% of his matches (195-150). 2-3 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ofner has a 82-68 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
Sebastian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Sultan 2 Challenger.
The Austrian has a 9-10 win-loss record in 2021, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rome 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2017. See his history.
Giulio Zeppieri
Ranked no. 317, Zeppieri got to the 2nd round after defeating Stefano Napolitano 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Giulio had a good straight sets win against Napolitano (6-3 6-4). During the match Zeppieri scored 71 points vs Napolitano’s 55. Zeppieri was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Zeppieri made 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Giulio Zeppieri was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (32/42) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Giulio broke Napolitano twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Giulio has a 6-7 win-loss record in 2021, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ofner | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 19 |
| Pts | 99-76 | 71-55 |
| Total Points | 175 | 126 |
| Winners | 39 | 32 |
| %Winners | 39% | 45% |
Both Ofner and Zeppieri played 1 match. At the moment, Sebastian Ofner conceded 1 set while Giulio Zeppieri hasn’t lost a set so far. Ofner has played 1 set more than Zeppieri (3 vs 2). Therefore, Ofner played 9 games more than Zeppieri. Sebastian scored 39 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Giulio struck 32 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ofner | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 3 |
| 1st in | 51/91 | 42/67 |
| %1st in | 56% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 39/51 | 32/42 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 23/40 | 16/25 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 64% |
Ofner managed to score 10 aces . Zeppieri bagged 3 aces . Ofner won 76% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Zeppieri won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ofner | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/12 | 2/4 |
| % Converted | 42% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 8 |
| Saved | 4 | 8 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Ofner broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Ofner conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 8 break points.
| Ofner | |||
| R1 Molcan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-77 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 99-76 | 99-76 | |
| Total points | 175 | 175 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 51/91 | 51/91 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 39/51 | 39/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/40 | 23/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Zeppieri | |||
| R1 Napolitano |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 71-55 | 71-55 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 42/67 | 42/67 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 32/42 | 32/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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