Jay Clarke and Matteo Viola will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Manama Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Viola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Viola is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Viola -> 1.84
Jay Clarke -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Jay Clarke vs. Matteo Viola
This will be the 2nd time that Jay Clarke and Matteo Viola square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Clarke (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Clarke won 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Anning Challenger back in 2019.
Jay Clarke
Ranked no. 231, Jay got to the 2nd round after beating Hasan Abdulnabi 6-0 6-0.
In the 1st round, Jay had a good straight sets win against Abdulnabi (6-0 6-0). During the match, Clarke scored 50 points vs Abdulnabi’s 16. Clarke was exceptionally aggressive to blast 13 winners.
Regarding the service games, Clarke recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jay Clarke was very effective on serve to win 93% (13/14) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jay broke Abdulnabi 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Clarke has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 57% of his matches (181-137). 5-6 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Clarke has an aggregate76-48 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Jay’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Sultan 3 Challenger.
Jay has an overall 17-27 win-loss record in 2021, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Matteo Viola
Ranked no. 306, the Italian reached the 2nd round after defeating Yu Hsiou Hsu 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round, Viola had a good straight sets win against Hsiou Hsu (6-4 7-5). During the match Viola scored 80 points vs Hsiou Hsu’s 67. Viola was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Viola scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Matteo Viola was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Viola broke Hsiou Hsu 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Matteo has an aggregate 19-29 win-loss record in 2021, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Clarke | Viola |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 12 | 22 |
| Pts | 50-16 | 80-67 |
| Total Points | 66 | 147 |
| Winners | 13 | 28 |
| %Winners | 26% | 35% |
Both Clarke and Viola played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Clarke and Viola have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Clarke played 10 games less than Viola. Clarke scored 13 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, Viola recorded 28 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Clarke | Viola |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 14/31 | 37/56 |
| %1st in | 45% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 13/14 | 28/37 |
| %1st pts | 93% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/19 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 63% |
Clarke bagged 2 aces . Viola made 1 ace . Clarke won 93% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Viola won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Clarke | Viola |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 4/13 |
| % Converted | 67% | 31% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Jay broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Brit had a solid display on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Matteo broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Matteo conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Clarke | |||
| R1 Abdulnabi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 12 | |
| pts | 50-16 | 50-16 | |
| Total points | 66 | 66 | |
| Winners | 13 | 13 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 14/31 | 14/31 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 45% | |
| 1st pts | 13/14 | 13/14 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Viola | |||
| R1 Hsiou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 80-67 | 80-67 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 37/56 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 28/37 | 28/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/13 | 4/13 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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