Giulio Zeppieri and Nicolas Kicker will face off in the qualifications of the Cordenons Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on CENTER DOLOMIA SERENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Kicker who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Kicker is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.42
Giulio Zeppieri -> 2.78
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Prediction and head to head Giulio Zeppieri vs. Nicolas Kicker
There is no head to head record between Giulio Zeppieri and Nicolas Kicker since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Giulio Zeppieri
Ranked no. 302, the Italian reached the qualifications after defeating Martin Cuevas 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Cuevas (6-3 6-1). During the match, Zeppieri scored 69 points vs Cuevas’s 50. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zeppieri scored just 1 ace in the match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Giulio Zeppieri was very efficient on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zeppieri broke Cuevas 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).
Zeppieri has a winning match record in the last 4 years having won 54% of his matches (57-48). 15-10 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Zeppieri has an aggregate53-37 win-loss record in the last 4 years on clay.
Giulio has a composed 16-14 win-loss record in 2021, 15-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cordenons Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2020. See his history.
Nicolas Kicker
Ranked no. 314, Kicker got to the qualifications after defeating Evan King 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kicker had a good straight sets win against King (6-1 6-3). During the match Kicker scored 58 points vs King’s 29. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Kicker made 2 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nicolas Kicker was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (24/29) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Argentine broke King 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Kicker’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Villa Maria,M25 Pensacola,M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Tulsa and the Tampere Challenger.
The Argentine has a composed 46-7 win-loss record in 2021, 32-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cordenons Challenger
Kicker has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zeppieri | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 69-50 | 58-29 |
| Total Points | 119 | 87 |
| Winners | 22 | 24 |
| %Winners | 32% | 41% |
Both Zeppieri and Kicker played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zeppieri and Kicker have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). The Italian scored 22 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine struck 24 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zeppieri | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 31/48 | 29/42 |
| %1st in | 65% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 24/29 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 9/13 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 69% |
Zeppieri fired 1 ace . Kicker also fired 2 aces . Zeppieri won 71% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Kicker won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zeppieri | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/16 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 31% | 67% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Zeppieri broke his opponent 5 times with a 31% conversion rate. Zeppieri dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Kicker broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Kicker was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Zeppieri | |||
| Q1 Cuevas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 69-50 | 69-50 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 31/48 | 31/48 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/16 | 5/16 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kicker | |||
| Q1 King |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-29 | 58-29 | |
| Total points | 87 | 87 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 29/42 | 29/42 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 24/29 | 24/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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