Federico Gaio and Johan Nikles will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Gran Canaria Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. 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 Johan Nikles who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Johan Nikles is the pick to win this match.
Johan Nikles -> 1.83
Federico Gaio -> 1.83
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Prediction and head to head Federico Gaio vs. Johan Nikles
There is no head to head record between Federico Gaio and Johan Nikles since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Federico Gaio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-16 | 2-7 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-30 | 14-12 | 25-15 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-28 | 9-9 | 8-15 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-38 | 6-8 | 14-16 | 13-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-19 | 5-4 | 10-12 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 186, the Italian will start his run in the Gran Canaria Challenger after he played his last match in the Bengalaru 2 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Bellier in the 1st round on the 15th of February.
Federico has a compiled 0-4 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Federico has an overall 454-368 record. He has a positive 290-215 record on clay.
Previously in the Gran Canaria Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Johan Nikles
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-16 | 3-2 | 25-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-23 | 2-2 | 19-19 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-28 | 1-3 | 42-21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 320 (career-high), Nikles got to the 1st round after defeating Sadio Doumbia 6-2 7-5 and Fabien Reboul 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Reboul (6-1 6-1). During the match Nikles scored 59 points vs Reboul’s 31. Johan was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Nikles scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Johan Nikles lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Nikles put 72% of his first serves in, winning 76% (25/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (4/13) on the 2nd serve. Nikles broke Reboul 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Johan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Johan has an overall 4-2 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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