Vasek Pospisil and Stefano Napolitano will square off in the 2nd round of the Forli 3 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on CITTA’ DI FORLI’. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vasek Pospisil who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vasek Pospisil is the pick to win this match.
Vasek Pospisil -> 1.29
Stefano Napolitano -> 3.6
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Prediction and head to head Vasek Pospisil vs. Stefano Napolitano
This will be the 2nd time that Vasek Pospisil and Stefano Napolitano square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pospisil (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Pospisil won 6-1 6-7(5) 7-5 in the qualifications in at the Australian Open back in 2018.
Vasek Pospisil
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-11 | 5-9 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-14 | 2-9 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-22 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 35-10 | 1-2 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 8-19 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 1-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 138, Pospisil got to the 2nd round after beating Evan Furness 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Vasek had a good straight sets win against Furness (6-4 6-3). During the match, Pospisil scored 63 points vs Furness’s 45. Vasek was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pospisil fired 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Vasek Pospisil was very efficient on serve to win 96% (27/28) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pospisil was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Furness twice.
Pospisil has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (252-201). 3-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Pospisil has a compiled 79-50 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Canadian has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Forli 3 Challenger
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-17 | 10-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-23 | 9-6 | 38-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 1-1 | 20-15 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-17 | 1-2 | 1-9 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 483, Stefano reached the 2nd round after beating Nino Serdarusic 7-66 2-6 7-62.
In the 1st round, Napolitano defeated Serdarusic (7-66 2-6 7-62).During the match Napolitano scored less points (5) than Serdarusic. In fact, the world no. 138 won 104 points vs Serdarusic’s. That means that Napolitano was more focused during the important points. Napolitano was extremely aggressive to blast 47 winners.
About the serving games, Napolitano struck 13 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Stefano Napolitano was quite efficient on serve to win 89% (47/53) of his 1st serve and 51% (28/55) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice.
Stefano has an overall 1-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pospisil | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 34 |
| Pts | 63-45 | 104-109 |
| Total Points | 108 | 213 |
| Winners | 27 | 47 |
| %Winners | 43% | 45% |
Both Pospisil and Napolitano played 1 match. At the moment, Stefano Napolitano lost 1 set while Vasek Pospisil hasn’t lost a set so far. Pospisil has played 1 set(s) less than Napolitano (2 vs 3). Therefore, Pospisil played 15 games less than Napolitano. Vasek scored 27 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian made 47 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pospisil | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 13 |
| 1st in | 28/48 | 53/108 |
| %1st in | 58% | 49% |
| 1st pts | 27/28 | 47/53 |
| %1st pts | 96% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 28/55 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 51% |
Pospisil fired 9 aces . Napolitano managed to score 13 aces . Pospisil won 96% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Napolitano won 89% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pospisil | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 0 |
| Converted | 2/2 | 0/3 |
| % Converted | 100% | 0% |
| Conceded | 0 | 7 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Vasek broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The Canadian pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. On the other side, Napolitano hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. The Italian conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pospisil | |||
| R1 Furness |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-45 | 63-45 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/48 | 28/48 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 27/28 | 27/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 96% | 96% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Napolitano | |||
| R1 Serdarusic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 2-6 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 104-109 | 104-109 | |
| Total points | 213 | 213 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 53/108 | 53/108 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 47/53 | 47/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/55 | 28/55 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/3 | 0/3 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 0% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Marius CopilCopil (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-4 6-74 6-2) – See score progression
- Lukas RosolRosol – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-4 7-67) – See score progression
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-3 4-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Daniel MasurMasur – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (7-63 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Evan FurnessFurness (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Lukas LackoLacko (0-6 6-3 7-60) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Denis IstominIstomin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (7-66 2-6 7-62) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Kacper ZukZuk (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Antoine HoangHoang (6-7(4) 6-0 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Quentin HalysHalys (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Daniel MasurMasur (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
