Constant Lestienne and Stefano Napolitano will face off in the 2nd round of the Forli 4 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CITTA’ DI FORLI’. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Constant Lestienne who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Constant Lestienne is the pick to win this match.
Constant Lestienne -> 1.41
Stefano Napolitano -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Constant Lestienne vs. Stefano Napolitano
This will be the 3rd time that Constant Lestienne and Stefano Napolitano clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Napolitano won 6-4 5-7 7-6(5) in the qualifications in the Hamburg Challenger back in 2020.
Constant Lestienne
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-16 | 8-8 | 0-3 | 1-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 22-12 | 0-5 | 7-6 | 3-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-27 | 25-6 | 4-7 | 18-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-20 | 10-3 | 4-9 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-14 | 2-2 | 1-5 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 204, Constant reached the 2nd round after beating Matteo Arnaldi 6-2 5-7 6-2.
In the 1st round, Constant defeated Arnaldi (6-2 5-7 6-2). During the match, Lestienne scored 93 points vs Arnaldi’s 72. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Regarding the service games, Lestienne fired 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Constant Lestienne lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Lestienne put 68% of his first serves in, winning 78% (43/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. Constant broke Arnaldi 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Lestienne has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (343-238). 6-2 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Lestienne has a composed 147-85 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The French player best result of the year was reaching the final in the Cherbourg Challenger.
Lestienne has a composed 7-3 win-loss record in 2022, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Forli 4 Challenger
Lestienne has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-12 | 9-3 | 11-6 | 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. 456, Stefano reached the 2nd round after beating Gastao Elias 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, Napolitano had a good straight sets win against Elias (6-1 6-4). During the match Napolitano scored 58 points vs Elias’s 40. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Napolitano blasted 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Stefano Napolitano was pretty efficient on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Napolitano was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Elias 3 times.
The Italian has a composed 2-3 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Lestienne | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 17 |
| Pts | 93-72 | 58-40 |
| Total Points | 165 | 98 |
| Winners | 43 | 26 |
| %Winners | 46% | 45% |
Both Lestienne and Napolitano played 1 match. At the moment, Constant Lestienne conceded 1 set while Stefano Napolitano hasn’t conceded a set so far. Lestienne has played 1 set more than Napolitano (3 vs 2). Therefore, Lestienne played 11 games more than Napolitano. The French player scored 43 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Stefano managed to score 26 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Lestienne | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 5 |
| 1st in | 55/81 | 31/50 |
| %1st in | 68% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 43/55 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 11/26 | 11/19 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 58% |
Lestienne struck 5 aces . Napolitano made 5 aces . Lestienne won 78% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Napolitano won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Lestienne | Napolitano |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 55% | 100% |
| Conceded | 8 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 2 |
| % Saved | 63% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Constant broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Constant lost his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Napolitano was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Lestienne | |||
| R1 Arnaldi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 5-7 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 93-72 | 93-72 | |
| Total points | 165 | 165 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 55/81 | 55/81 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 43/55 | 43/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/26 | 11/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Napolitano | |||
| R1 Elias |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 58-40 | 58-40 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 31/50 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 11/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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