Matteo Viola and Cristian Rodriguez will square off in the 1st round of the Barletta Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on CENTER. 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 Cristian Rodriguez who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cristian Rodriguez is the pick to win this match.
Cristian Rodriguez -> 1.77
Matteo Viola -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Viola vs. Cristian Rodriguez
This will be the 2nd time that Matteo Viola and Cristian Rodriguez play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Viola (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Viola won 6-1 6-0 in the quarter in Italy F32 back in 1970.
Matteo Viola
Ranked no. 266, the Italian will start his run in the Barletta Challenger after he played his last match in the Verona Challenger where he lost 6-0 6-1 to Fatic in the 1st round on the 17th of August.
The Italian has a composed 14-22 win-loss record in 2021, 4-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Matteo has an overall 416-348 record. He has a positive 216-188 record on clay.
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2011. See his history.
Cristian Rodriguez
Ranked no. 423, Cristian reached the 1st round after defeating Benjamin Hassan 6-2 4-6 6-2 and Aidan Mchugh 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Cristian had a good straight sets win against Mchugh (6-1 6-3). During the match Rodriguez scored 61 points vs Mchugh’s 41. Cristian was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Rodriguez managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Cristian Rodriguez was very effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rodriguez broke Mchugh 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rodriguez started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
The Colombian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Guayaquil.
The Colombian has a composed 16-13 win-loss record in 2021, 15-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Barletta Challenger
- Andrej MartinMartin – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (4-6 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Jack DraperDraper (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Emiliano MaggioliMaggioli (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Jeremy JahnJahn (5-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Francesco FortiForti (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Petros ChrysochosChrysochos (6-1 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo ViolaViola – Cristian RodriguezRodriguez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrej MartinMartin – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Nicolas MejiaMejia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Julian OcleppoOcleppo – Jelle SelsSels (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
