Jay Clarke and Alexander Ritschard will play each other in the 1st round of the Napoli 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Alexander Ritschard who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Ritschard is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Ritschard -> 1.55
Jay Clarke -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Jay Clarke vs. Alexander Ritschard
There is no head to head record between Jay Clarke and Alexander Ritschard since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jay Clarke
Ranked no. 195, the Brit will start his run in the Napoli 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Sibiu Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 6-4 to Oliel in the 1st round on the 28th of September.
The Brit has an aggregate 16-24 win-loss record in 2021, 8-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Brit’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Sultan 3 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Brit has an overall 180-134 record. He has a positive 81-47 record on clay.
Previously in the Napoli 2 Challenger
Jay has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexander Ritschard
Ranked no. 302, Ritschard reached the 1st round after defeating Arjun Kadhe 6-3 6-3 and Filip Cristian Jianu 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Ritschard had a good straight sets win against Cristian Jianu (6-3 6-3). During the match Ritschard scored 62 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 47. The Swiss was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Ritschard struck 5 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alexander Ritschard was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 69% (18/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Swiss broke Cristian Jianu 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Swiss started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Alexander has a composed 21-19 win-loss record in 2021, 16-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Napoli 2 Challenger
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- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-5 6-75 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrej MartinMartin – Mirza BasicBasic (6-3 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Filippo BaldiBaldi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
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- Alvaro Lopez San MartinLopez San Martin – Timofey SkatovSkatov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex MolcanMolcan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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