Hugo Grenier and Salvatore Caruso will square off in the quarter of the Bendigo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Hugo Grenier who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Hugo Grenier is the pick to win this match.
Hugo Grenier -> 1.79
Salvatore Caruso -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Hugo Grenier vs. Salvatore Caruso
This will be the 2nd time that Hugo Grenier and Salvatore Caruso play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Caruso (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Caruso won 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Parma Challenger back in 2020.
Hugo Grenier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-13 | 10-7 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-33 | 15-8 | 7-10 | 4-11 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-35 | 21-14 | 9-10 | 1-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-28 | 22-9 | 9-8 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-16 | 7-2 | 5-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 150 (career-high), Grenier reached the quarter after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 7-65 6-0 and Zizou Bergs 6-0 5-7 7-65.
In the 3rd round, Hugo defeated Bergs (6-0 5-7 7-65). During the match, Grenier scored 103 points vs Bergs’s 89. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about the service games, Grenier bagged 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Hugo Grenier was quite effective on serve to win 86% (48/56) of his 1st serve and 53% (21/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Grenier broke Bergs 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hugo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
Grenier has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (276-179). 2-0 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Grenier has an aggregate148-70 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Hugo has an aggregate 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bendigo Challenger
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-10 | 8-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 157, Salvatore got to the quarter after defeating Alexandre Muller 2-6 6-2 6-1 and Gastao Elias w/o.
In the 3rd round, Salvatore defeated Elias (w/o). During the match Caruso and Elias scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 150 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Caruso was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
Talking about serving, Caruso couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Salvatore Caruso conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Caruso has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Grenier | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 50 | 23 |
| Pts | 180-145 | 84-67 |
| Total Points | 325 | 151 |
| Winners | 80 | 30 |
| %Winners | 44% | 36% |
Grenier played 2 matches while Caruso competed in 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Hugo Grenier dropped 1 set, while Salvatore Caruso conceded 1 set. Grenier has played 2 sets more than Caruso (5 vs 3). Therefore, Grenier played 27 games more than Caruso. Hugo scored 80 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian bagged 30 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Grenier | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 20 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 5 |
| 1st in | 90/150 | 53/82 |
| %1st in | 60% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 80/90 | 30/53 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 57% |
| 2nd pts | 32/60 | 18/29 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 62% |
Grenier managed to score 20 aces (10 per match). Caruso managed to score 5 aces . Grenier won 89% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Caruso won 57% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Grenier | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/16 | 6/12 |
| % Converted | 38% | 50% |
| Conceded | 7 | 13 |
| Saved | 6 | 9 |
| % Saved | 86% | 69% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Grenier broke his opponents 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. Hugo conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Caruso broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.
| Grenier | ||||
| R2 Giustino |
R3 Bergs |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-0 | 6-0 5-7 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 31 | 50 | |
| pts | 77-56 | 103-89 | 180-145 | |
| Total points | 133 | 192 | 325 | |
| Winners | 32 | 48 | 80 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 47% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 12 | 20 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 34/54 | 56/96 | 90/150 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 58% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 32/34 | 48/56 | 80/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 94% | 86% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 21/40 | 32/60 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | 6/16 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 4/5 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 80% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Caruso | ||||
| R2 Muller |
R3 Elias |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-2 6-1 | w/o | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | – | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | – | 23 | |
| pts | 84-67 | – | 84-67 | |
| Total points | 151 | – | 151 | |
| Winners | 30 | – | 30 | |
| %Winners | 36% | – | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | – | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | – | 3 | |
| 1st in | 53/82 | – | 53/82 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | – | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 30/53 | – | 30/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 57% | – | 57% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | – | 18/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | – | 62% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | – | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | – | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | – | 50% | |
| Conceded | 13 | – | 13 | |
| Saved | 9/13 | – | 9 | |
| Saved % | 69% | – | 35% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | – | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLLWLWW Tennis Scores in Bendigo Challenger
- Quentin HalysHalys – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Zizou BergsBergs (6-0 5-7 7-65) – See score progression
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Facundo MenaMena (7-611 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Jason JungJung (6-2 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Gastao EliasElias (w/o) – See score progression
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Matthias BachingerBachinger (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Hugo GrenierGrenier (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
