Salvatore Caruso and Carlos Gimeno Valero will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Gran Canaria Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Salvatore Caruso who should win in 3 sets.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.49
Carlos Gimeno Valero -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Carlos Gimeno Valero
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Carlos Gimeno Valero since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 8-9 | 4-3 | 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. 156, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Carlos Lopez Montagud 5-7 6-0 6-4.
In the 1st round against Lopez Montagud, Salvatore recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-0 6-4). During the match, Caruso scored 97 points vs Lopez Montagud’s 86. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Caruso blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 52% of his first serves in, winning 65% (35/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (25/49) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Lopez Montagud 7 times after converting 64% of his break points (7/11).
Caruso has a good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (332-267). 1-0 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Caruso has a composed 196-139 match record in the last years on clay.
Caruso’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.
The Italian has a compiled 6-5 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gran Canaria Challenger
Salvatore has never competed in this tournament before.
Carlos Gimeno Valero
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-16 | 3-2 | 20-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 312, the Spaniard got to the 2nd round after beating Timofey Skatov 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Carlos had a good straight sets win against Skatov (6-2 6-1). During the match Gimeno scored 62 points vs Skatov’s 38. Gimeno was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Gimeno couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Carlos Gimeno Valero was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 63% (5/8) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Gimeno broke Skatov 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
The Spaniard has a composed 2-2 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Gimeno |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 15 |
| Pts | 97-86 | 62-38 |
| Total Points | 183 | 100 |
| Winners | 35 | 22 |
| %Winners | 36% | 35% |
Both Caruso and Gimeno played 1 match. At the moment, Salvatore Caruso surrendered 1 set while Carlos Gimeno Valero hasn’t dropped a set so far. Caruso has played 1 set more than Gimeno (3 vs 2). Therefore, Caruso played 13 games more than Gimeno. Salvatore scored 35 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Carlos scored 22 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Gimeno |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 54/103 | 31/39 |
| %1st in | 52% | 79% |
| 1st pts | 35/54 | 22/31 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 25/49 | 5/8 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 63% |
Caruso bagged 2 aces . Gimeno didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Caruso won 65% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Gimeno won 71% of the points on 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 | Caruso | Gimeno |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 6 |
| Converted | 7/11 | 6/10 |
| % Converted | 64% | 60% |
| Conceded | 11 | 2 |
| Saved | 7 | 1 |
| % Saved | 64% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
Caruso broke his opponent 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. Salvatore surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. Carlos broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Gimeno conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Caruso | |||
| R1 Lopez | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 97-86 | 97-86 | |
| Total points | 183 | 183 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 54/103 | 54/103 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 35/54 | 35/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/49 | 25/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| Converted % | 64% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 64% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Gimeno | |||
| R1 Skatov | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 62-38 | 62-38 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/39 | 31/39 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 79% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Gran Canaria Challenger
- Gianluca MagerMager – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-2 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Andrej MartinMartin (7-66 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Lukas RosolRosol (3-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato (7-62 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Johan NiklesNikles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Gianluca MagerMager (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (1-1) – H2H and prediction