Alessandro Giannessi and Vitaliy Sachko will square off in the 2nd round of the Trieste Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:45 pm on CENTER COURT GIORGI. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alessandro Giannessi who should win in 3 sets.
Alessandro Giannessi -> 1.615
Vitaliy Sachko -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Alessandro Giannessi vs. Vitaliy Sachko
There is no head to head record between Alessandro Giannessi and Vitaliy Sachko since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alessandro Giannessi
Ranked no. 169, the Italian got to the 2nd round after defeating Rudolf Molleker 4-6 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round against Molleker, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-1). During the match, Giannessi scored 88 points vs Molleker’s 70. Giannessi was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Giannessi made 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alessandro Giannessi was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (34/48) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Alessandro broke Molleker 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Giannessi has a winning match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (280-242). 27-16 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Giannessi has an overall 244-189 record in the last years on clay.
Alessandro’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Antalya 2 Challenger,the Marbella Challenger and the Rome 2 Challenger.
Giannessi has an overall 27-20 win-loss record in 2021, 27-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020. See his history.
Vitaliy Sachko
Ranked no. 271, Vitaliy got to the 2nd round after defeating Gian Marco Moroni 6-2 7-66.
In the 1st round, Sachko had a good straight sets win against Marco Moroni (6-2 7-66). During the match Sachko scored 81 points vs Marco Moroni’s 70. The Ukrainian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Sachko blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Vitaliy Sachko lost the serve twice and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Sachko put 65% of his first serves in, winning 65% (34/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Sachko broke Marco Moroni 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Vitaliy’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Bratislava,the Lugano Challenger,M25 Jablonec nad Nisou and the Perugia Challenger.
The Ukrainian has an overall 28-13 win-loss record in 2021, 17-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
The Ukrainian has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Giannessi | Sachko |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 21 |
| Pts | 88-70 | 81-70 |
| Total Points | 158 | 151 |
| Winners | 34 | 34 |
| %Winners | 39% | 42% |
Both Giannessi and Sachko played 1 match. At the moment, Alessandro Giannessi lost 1 set while Vitaliy Sachko hasn’t dropped a set so far. Giannessi has played 1 set more than Sachko (3 vs 2). Therefore, Giannessi played 4 games more than Sachko. Giannessi scored 34 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Sachko managed to score 34 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Giannessi | Sachko |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 5 |
| 1st in | 48/68 | 52/80 |
| %1st in | 71% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 34/48 | 34/52 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 14/28 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 50% |
Giannessi bagged 7 aces . Sachko scored 5 aces . Giannessi won 71% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Sachko won 65% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Giannessi | Sachko |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 75% | 80% |
| Conceded | 4 | 12 |
| Saved | 2 | 10 |
| % Saved | 50% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Italian broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Alessandro dropped his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Sachko broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Sachko conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Giannessi | |||
| R1 Molleker | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 88-70 | 88-70 | |
| Total points | 158 | 158 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 48/68 | 48/68 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 34/48 | 34/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sachko | |||
| R1 Marco Moroni | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 81-70 | 81-70 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 52/80 | 52/80 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 34/52 | 34/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 10/12 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Tennis Scores in Trieste Challenger
- Orlando LuzLuz – Julian LenzLenz (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Antoine HoangHoang (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (1-6 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Pedja KrstinKrstin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Orlando LuzLuz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-0) – H2H and prediction