Mate Valkusz and Matteo Donati will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sanremo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Mate Valkusz who should win in 2 sets.
Mate Valkusz -> 1.144
Matteo Donati -> 5.25
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Prediction and head to head Mate Valkusz vs. Matteo Donati
There is no head to head record between Mate Valkusz and Matteo Donati since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Mate Valkusz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-8 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 5-2 | 23-14 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 33-14 | 5-5 | 27-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-9 | 4-2 | 27-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 402, the Hungarian got to the 1st round after defeating Francesco Maestrelli 6-2 6-72 6-4 and Giovanni Fonio 5-7 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications against Fonio, Valkusz recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-4 6-4). During the match, Valkusz scored 115 points vs Fonio’s 96. Valkusz was quite aggressive to blast 54 winners.
Regarding the service games, Valkusz managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mate Valkusz lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Valkusz put 72% of his first serves in, winning 71% (54/76) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. Valkusz broke Fonio 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Hungarian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has surrendered 2 set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.
Valkusz has a fantastic match record in the last 8 years having won 71% of his matches (145-60). 7-0 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Valkusz has an overall113-36 record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Hungarian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Opatija.
The Hungarian has an overall 10-4 win-loss record in 2022, 7-0 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Sanremo Challenger
Valkusz has never competed in this tournament before.
Matteo Donati
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-13 | 0-0 | 9-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 4-11 | 0-2 | 4-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 771, the Italian will start his run in the Sanremo Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Palmanova where he lost 6-1 6-3
to Barreto in the 1st round on the 23rd of March.The Italian has an aggregate 0-1 win-loss record in 2022, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Italian has an overall 207-185 record. He has a positive 148-115 record on clay.
Tennis Scores in Sanremo Challenger
- Gianluca MagerMager – Francesco FortiForti (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Evgenii TiurnevTiurnev (6-3 7-612) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nerman FaticFatic – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Flavio CobolliCobolli (2-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Jelle SelsSels (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Robin HaaseHaase – Alexey VatutinVatutin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Francesco PassaroPassaro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Matteo MartineauMartineau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin VacherotVacherot – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Matteo DonatiDonati (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction