Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Matteo Arnaldi will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Barletta Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:30 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Arnaldi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Arnaldi is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Arnaldi -> 1.9
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Geoffrey Blancaneaux vs. Matteo Arnaldi
This will be the 2nd time that Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Matteo Arnaldi square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Arnaldi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Arnaldi won 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in the Bucharest Challenger back in 2021.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-17 | 6-5 | 6-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-37 | 7-10 | 14-18 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-38 | 17-10 | 14-15 | 8-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-31 | 8-6 | 17-19 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 23-17 | 11-3 | 5-9 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 213, the French player got to the 2nd round after beating Kacper Zuk 6-4 6-74 6-3.
In the 1st round, The French player defeated Zuk (6-4 6-74 6-3). During the match, Blancaneaux scored 104 points vs Zuk’s 92. Blancaneaux was very aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Talking about the service games, Blancaneaux wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and he committed only 9 double faults. Geoffrey Blancaneaux lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Blancaneaux put 69% of his first serves in, winning 72% (49/68) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (14/31) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Zuk 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Blancaneaux has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 59% of his matches (224-155). 1-1 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Blancaneaux has an overall109-73 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
Geoffrey’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo.
Geoffrey has a compiled 14-10 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
Geoffrey has never competed in this tournament before.
Matteo Arnaldi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-16 | 10-8 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-26 | 21-15 | 23-7 | 4-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-35 | 9-3 | 37-20 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-24 | 2-1 | 51-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 337, Arnaldi reached the 2nd round after defeating Pawel Cias 6-4 1-6 6-0, Fabien Reboul 6-1 6-4 and Giulio Zeppieri 0-6 7-64 7-64.
In the 1st round against Zeppieri, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (0-6 7-64 7-64).During the match Arnaldi scored less points (7) than Zeppieri. In fact, the world no. 213 won 108 points vs Zeppieri’s. That means that Arnaldi was more focused during the important points. Matteo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Arnaldi blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Matteo Arnaldi lost the serve 6 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Arnaldi put 60% of his first serves in, winning 63% (44/70) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (21/46) on the 2nd serve. Arnaldi broke Zeppieri 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
The Italian has an aggregate 10-10 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blancaneaux | Arnaldi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 72 |
| Pts | 104-92 | 253-231 |
| Total Points | 196 | 484 |
| Winners | 49 | 98 |
| %Winners | 47% | 39% |
Blancaneaux played 1 match while Arnaldi competed in 3 matches. Arnaldi started his run from the qualifications while Blancaneaux had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Geoffrey Blancaneaux surrendered 1 set, while Matteo Arnaldi lost 2 sets. Blancaneaux has played 5 set(s) less than Arnaldi (3 vs 8). Therefore, Blancaneaux played 40 games less than Arnaldi. Geoffrey scored 49 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Matteo bagged 98 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blancaneaux | Arnaldi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1.3 |
| 1st in | 68/99 | 158/249 |
| %1st in | 69% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 49/68 | 98/158 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 62% |
| 2nd pts | 14/31 | 49/91 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 54% |
Blancaneaux didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Arnaldi fired 4 aces (1.3 per match). Blancaneaux won 72% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Arnaldi won 62% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blancaneaux | Arnaldi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 12 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 12/24 |
| % Converted | 63% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 25 |
| Saved | 3 | 15 |
| % Saved | 60% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 10 |
The French player broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Geoffrey conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Arnaldi broke his opponents 12 times with a 50% conversion rate. Arnaldi conceded his serve 10 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Blancaneaux | |||
| R1 Zuk |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-74 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 104-92 | 104-92 | |
| Total points | 196 | 196 | |
| Winners | 49 | 49 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 68/99 | 68/99 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 49/68 | 49/68 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/31 | 14/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Arnaldi | |||||
| Q1 Cias |
Q3 Reboul |
R1 Zeppieri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 1-6 6-0 | 6-1 6-4 | 0-6 7-64 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 17 | 32 | 72 | |
| pts | 76-68 | 69-48 | 108-115 | 253-231 | |
| Total points | 144 | 117 | 223 | 484 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | 44 | 98 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 39% | 41% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 46/67 | 42/66 | 70/116 | 158/249 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 64% | 60% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/46 | 27/42 | 44/70 | 98/158 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 64% | 63% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 16/24 | 21/46 | 49/91 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 67% | 46% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/6 | 3/8 | 12/24 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 67% | 38% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 8 | 14 | 25 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 7/8 | 8/14 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 88% | 57% | 145% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | |
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