Tim Van Rijthoven and Omar Giacalone will square off in the 1^st round of the Biella 6 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CAMPO 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tim Van Rijthoven who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tim Van Rijthoven is the pick to win this match.
Tim Van Rijthoven -> 1.27
Omar Giacalone -> 3.62

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Prediction and head to head Tim Van Rijthoven vs. Omar Giacalone

There is no head to head record between Tim Van Rijthoven and Omar Giacalone since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tim Van Rijthoven

Ranked no. 303, Van Rijthoven reached the 1^st round after defeating Cristian Rodriguez 7-6³ 7-6² and Viktor Galovic 7-6² 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Galovic (7-6² 6-3). During the match Van Rijthoven scored 72 points vs Galovic’s 56. The Dutch was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Van Rijthoven struck 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Tim Van Rijthoven was quite effective on serve to win 85% (35/41) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tim broke Galovic once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Dutch started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Van Rijthoven has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (183-100). 2-0 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Van Rijthoven has a 53-36 record in the last 8 years on clay.

Van Rijthoven’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Biel.

Tim has a 22-8 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Biella 6 Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2021. See his history.

Biella 6 Challenger

Van Rijthoven's Record

Omar Giacalone

Ranked no. 680, the Italian got to the 1^st round after beating Akira Santillan 6-4 3-2 ret. and Mischa Zverev 7-6⁵ 6-2.

In the qualifications, Omar had a good straight sets win against Zverev (7-6⁵ 6-2). During the match Giacalone scored 75 points vs Zverev’s 63. Giacalone was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Giacalone scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Omar Giacalone lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Giacalone put 61% of his first serves in, winning 63% (26/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Zverev 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

Giacalone’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Monastir.

The Italian has a 15-8 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Biella 6 Challenger

Giacalone's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Van Rijthoven and Giacalone played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Van Rijthoven has played 1 set(s) less than Giacalone (4 vs 5). However, it’s interesting to notice that Van Rijthoven played 12 games more than Giacalone. The Dutch scored 74 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Omar scored 48 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Van Rijthoven recorded 18 aces (9 per match). Giacalone fired 1 ace (0.5 per match). Van Rijthoven won 83% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Giacalone won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.

How they played the important points

The Dutch broke his opponents twice with a 15% conversion rate. Van Rijthoven surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Giacalone broke his opponents 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. Omar conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Tim
Van Rijthoven

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Omar
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Rank

871

High

101

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883

High

327

Win Loss

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Van Rijthoven

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Giacalone