Luca Nardi and Duje Kekez will play each other in the qualifications of the Split Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.121
Duje Kekez -> 5.8
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Duje Kekez
There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Duje Kekez since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 9-7 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-36 | 20-10 | 8-13 | 12-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 5-2 | 11-10 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-3 | 26-13 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-9 | 7-2 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 232, Nardi reached the qualifications after defeating Noa Vukadin 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Vukadin (6-3 6-1). During the match, Nardi scored 62 points vs Vukadin’s 40. Nardi was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nardi scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Luca Nardi conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 85% of his first serves in, win 82% (32/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 29% (2/7) on the 2nd serve. Nardi broke Vukadin 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Nardi has a winning match record in the last 5 years having won 59% of his matches (60-41). 3-1 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nardi has an overall35-20 win-loss record in the last 5 years on clay.
Luca’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
Luca has a compiled 13-4 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Split Challenger
Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.
Duje Kekez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-13 | 0-0 | 19-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-17 | 0-0 | 15-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 897, Duje reached the qualifications after defeating Matteo Martineau 1-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Martineau, Duje recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-4).During the match Kekez scored less points (3) than Martineau. In fact, the world no. 232 won 89 points vs Martineau’s. That means that Kekez was more focused during the important points. Duje was quite aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about serving, Kekez was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Duje Kekez lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kekez put 79% of his first serves in, winning 67% (48/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (6/19) on the 2nd serve. Kekez broke Martineau 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).
Kekez has an aggregate 3-2 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nardi | Kekez |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 26 |
| Pts | 62-40 | 89-92 |
| Total Points | 102 | 181 |
| Winners | 32 | 48 |
| %Winners | 52% | 54% |
Both Nardi and Kekez played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Duje Kekez dropped 1 set while Luca Nardi hasn’t dropped a set so far. Nardi has played 1 set(s) less than Kekez (2 vs 3). Therefore, Nardi played 10 games less than Kekez. Nardi scored 32 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Duje recorded 48 winners (54%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nardi | Kekez |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 39/46 | 72/91 |
| %1st in | 85% | 79% |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 48/72 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 2/7 | 6/19 |
| %2nd pts | 29% | 32% |
Nardi managed to score 2 aces . Kekez didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Nardi won 82% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 29% of the points. On the other side, Kekez won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 32% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nardi | Kekez |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 3/13 |
| % Converted | 50% | 23% |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
The Italian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Italian had a solid display on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Croatian broke his opponent 3 times with a 23% conversion rate. Duje conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nardi | |||
| Q1 Vukadin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 62-40 | 62-40 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/46 | 39/46 | |
| % 1st in | 85% | 85% | |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 32/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| % 2nd pts | 29% | 29% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kekez | |||
| Q1 Martineau |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 89-92 | 89-92 | |
| Total points | 181 | 181 | |
| Winners | 48 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 72/91 | 72/91 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 79% | |
| 1st pts | 48/72 | 48/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/19 | 6/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 32% | 32% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/13 | 3/13 | |
| Converted % | 23% | 23% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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