Gastao Elias and Nino Serdarusic will play each other in the quarter of the Verona Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:30 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gastao Elias who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gastao Elias is the pick to win this match.
Gastao Elias -> 1.87
Nino Serdarusic -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Gastao Elias vs. Nino Serdarusic
This will be the 2nd time that Gastao Elias and Nino Serdarusic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Elias (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Elias won 6-3 6-3 in the quarter in the Orlando Challenger back in 2019.
Gastao Elias
Ranked no. 240, Elias got to the quarter after defeating Andrea Arnaboldi 6-2 6-4 and Francesco Forti 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Gastao had a good straight sets win against Forti (6-2 6-4). During the match, Elias scored 65 points vs Forti’s 44. The Portuguese was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Elias scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Gastao Elias was very effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Gastao broke Forti 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gastao started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Elias has a positive match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (317-248). 21-10 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Elias has an overall 245-170 record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in the Oeiras 4 Challenger where he overcame Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune in the final 5-7 6-4 6-4.
The Portuguese has a composed 32-14 win-loss record in 2021, 21-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Elias has never competed in this tournament before.
Nino Serdarusic
Ranked no. 302, Nino got to the quarter after defeating Filippo Baldi 6-3 6-2 and Paolo Lorenzi 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Lorenzi (6-3 6-1). During the match Serdarusic scored 60 points vs Lorenzi’s 28. Serdarusic was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Serdarusic managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nino Serdarusic conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Serdarusic put 82% of his first serves in, winning 97% (30/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (3/7) on the 2nd serve. Serdarusic broke Lorenzi 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Croatian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 62% of the points he played.
Nino’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Perugia Challenger.
Serdarusic has a compiled 13-20 win-loss record in 2021, 13-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Elias | Serdarusic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 33 |
| Pts | 126-91 | 123-74 |
| Total Points | 217 | 197 |
| Winners | 47 | 63 |
| %Winners | 37% | 51% |
Both Elias and Serdarusic played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Elias and Serdarusic have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Elias played 3 games more than Serdarusic. Elias scored 47 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian blasted 63 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Elias | Serdarusic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 8 |
| 1st in | 60/106 | 75/97 |
| %1st in | 57% | 77% |
| 1st pts | 47/60 | 63/75 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 28/46 | 11/22 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 50% |
Elias fired 6 aces (3 per match). Serdarusic scored 16 aces (8 per match). Elias won 78% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Serdarusic won 84% 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 | Elias | Serdarusic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 7 |
| Converted | 7/13 | 7/12 |
| % Converted | 54% | 58% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Gastao broke his opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Elias conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The Croatian broke his opponents 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Nino was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Elias | ||||
| R1 Arnaboldi |
R2 Forti |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | 36 | |
| pts | 61-47 | 65-44 | 126-91 | |
| Total points | 108 | 109 | 217 | |
| Winners | 25 | 22 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 34% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 34/56 | 26/50 | 60/106 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 52% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 22/26 | 47/60 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 85% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/24 | 28/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 58% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 4/10 | 7/13 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 40% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 0/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Serdarusic | ||||
| R1 Baldi |
R2 Lorenzi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 | 33 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 60-28 | 123-74 | |
| Total points | 109 | 88 | 197 | |
| Winners | 33 | 30 | 63 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 50% | 51% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 11 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 44/59 | 31/38 | 75/97 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 82% | 77% | |
| 1st pts | 33/44 | 30/31 | 63/75 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 97% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 3/7 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 43% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 4/6 | 7/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 67% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 2/2 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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