Raul Brancaccio and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan will square off in the qualifications of the Napoli Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CAMPO D’AVALOS. 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 Raul Brancaccio who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Raul Brancaccio is the pick to win this match.
Raul Brancaccio -> 1.21
Mircea-Alexandru Jecan -> 4.2

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Prediction and head to head Raul Brancaccio vs. Mircea-Alexandru Jecan

This will be the 2nd time that Raul Brancaccio and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Jecan (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Jecan won 6-1 6-7(3) 7-6(3) in the qualifications in Spain F5 back in 1970.

Raul Brancaccio

Ranked no. 343, the Italian reached the qualifications after defeating Augusto Virgili 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications, Raul had a good straight sets win against Virgili (6-2 6-2). During the match, Brancaccio scored 68 points vs Virgili’s 40. Raul was exceptionally aggressive to blast 15 winners.

Talking about the service games, Brancaccio scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Raul Brancaccio was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (15/19) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Brancaccio broke Virgili 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

Brancaccio has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 60% of his matches (221-148). 38-18 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Brancaccio has an aggregate179-114 match record in the last 6 years on clay.

The Italian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya.

Raul has a compiled 40-19 win-loss record in 2021, 38-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Napoli Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Napoli Challenger
Brancaccio's Record

Mircea-Alexandru Jecan

Ranked no. 576, will start his run in the Napoli Challenger after he played his last match in the Napoli Challenger where he defeated 6-1 7-5 to Peluso in the qualifications on the 3rd of October.

Jecan has an aggregate 8-15 win-loss record in 2021, 8-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

In terms of his career, Mircea-Alexandru has an overall 160-111 record. He has a positive 156-97 record on clay.

Napoli Challenger
Jecan's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

R.Brancaccio
M.Jecan
1h:08
1h:08
Time on court​
1h:17
1h:17
1h:08
1h:08
Last match​
1h:17
1h:17
1
1
Match played
1
1
16
16
Games Played​
19
19
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
68
68
Total points​
63
63
68
68
Avg point​
63
63
15
15
Winners
19
19
15
15
Avg Winners​
19
19
22%
22%
Ratio winners
30%
30%
-- Serve --
1
1
Aces
1
1
1
1
Avg Aces
1
1
1
1
Double Faults
3
3
1
1
Avg Double Faults
3
3
15/19
15/19
1st won total​
19/25
19/25
!
79%
79%
1st won %
!
76%
76%
16/23
16/23
2nd won total​
14/20
14/20
!
70%
70%
2nd won %
!
70%
70%
-- Break Points --
5/12
5/12
BP won
5/11
5/11
5/12
5/12
Avg BP won
5/11
5/11
42%
42%
Won
45%
45%
1
1
Conceded
1
1
1
1
Avg Conceded
1
1
1
1
Broken
1
1
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
0
0
Saved
0
0

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Brancaccio Jecan
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 19
Pts 68-40 63-44
Total Points 108 107
Winners 15 19
%Winners 22% 30%

Both Brancaccio and Jecan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Brancaccio and Jecan have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Brancaccio played 3 games less than Jecan. Brancaccio scored 15 winners (22% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian blasted 19 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve Brancaccio Jecan
Aces 1 1
Avg per match 1 1
1st in 19/42 25/45
%1st in 45% 56%
1st pts 15/19 19/25
%1st pts 79% 76%
2nd pts 16/23 14/20
%2nd pts 70% 70%

Brancaccio fired 1 ace . Jecan also blasted 1 ace . Brancaccio won 79% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Jecan won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Brancaccio Jecan
Won 5 5
Converted 5/12 5/11
% Converted 42% 45%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0 0
% Saved 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1

Brancaccio broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Brancaccio dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Jecan broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Mircea-Alexandru conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Brancaccio
Q1
Virgili
Total
Score 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 68-40 68-40
Total points 108 108
Winners 15 15
%Winners 22% 22%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 19/42 19/42
% 1st in 45% 45%
1st pts 15/19 15/19
% 1st pts 79% 79%
2nd pts 16/23 16/23
% 2nd pts 70% 70%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/12 5/12
Converted % 42% 42%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Jecan
Total
Score
Tot Set 0
Tot Games 0
pts 0-0
Total points 0
Winners 0
%Winners
SERVE
Aces 0
Double Faults 0
1st in 0/0
% 1st in NAN%
1st pts 0/0
% 1st pts NAN%
2nd pts 0/0
% 2nd pts NAN%
Breaks
Won 0
Converted 0/0
Converted % NAN%
Conceded 0
Saved 0
Saved % 0%
Times Broken 0

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