Luca Nardi and Johan Nikles will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Split Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.57
Johan Nikles -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Johan Nikles
This will be the 2nd time that Luca Nardi and Johan Nikles play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nardi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Nardi won 6-4 6-2 in the final in M15 Genova back in 2021.
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. 209 (career-high), Nardi got to the 1st round after beating Noa Vukadin 6-3 6-1 and Duje Kekez 6-3 7-63.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Kekez (6-3 7-63). During the match, Nardi scored 80 points vs Kekez’s 59. Luca was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nardi scored just 1 ace in the match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Luca Nardi was very efficient on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 78% (18/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Luca broke Kekez twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Nardi has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (61-41). 4-1 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nardi has an overall36-20 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
Nardi’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
Nardi has an overall 14-4 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Split Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 294, Johan got to the 1st round after beating Alexandar Lazarov 6-3 7-5 and Bogdan Bobrov 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Johan had a good straight sets win against Bobrov (6-4 7-5). During the match Nikles scored 77 points vs Bobrov’s 67. Johan was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Nikles wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Johan Nikles lost the serve 5 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Nikles put 68% of his first serves in, winning 60% (30/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (9/23) on the 2nd serve. Nikles broke Bobrov 7 times after converting 58% of his break points (7/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Johan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Nikles has an overall 11-7 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nardi | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 43 |
| Pts | 142-99 | 148-134 |
| Total Points | 241 | 282 |
| Winners | 62 | 65 |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% |
Both Nardi and Nikles played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nardi and Nikles have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Nardi played 5 games less than Nikles. Luca scored 62 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Johan fired 65 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nardi | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1.5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 80/110 | 109/146 |
| %1st in | 73% | 75% |
| 1st pts | 62/80 | 65/109 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 20/30 | 14/37 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 38% |
Nardi made 3 aces (1.5 per match). Nikles didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Nardi won 78% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Nikles won 60% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nardi | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 13 |
| Converted | 6/12 | 13/18 |
| % Converted | 50% | 72% |
| Conceded | 1 | 19 |
| Saved | 0 | 11 |
| % Saved | 0% | 58% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 8 |
The Italian broke his opponents 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Nardi conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Swiss broke his opponents 13 times with a 72% conversion rate. Nikles conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 58% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nardi | ||||
| Q1 Vukadin |
Q3 Kekez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 6-3 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 22 | 38 | |
| pts | 62-40 | 80-59 | 142-99 | |
| Total points | 102 | 139 | 241 | |
| Winners | 32 | 30 | 62 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 38% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/46 | 41/64 | 80/110 | |
| % 1st in | 85% | 64% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 30/41 | 62/80 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 73% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 2/7 | 18/23 | 20/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 29% | 78% | 67% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 2/4 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Nikles | ||||
| Q1 Lazarov |
Q3 Bobrov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 22 | 43 | |
| pts | 71-67 | 77-67 | 148-134 | |
| Total points | 138 | 144 | 282 | |
| Winners | 35 | 30 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 39% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 59/73 | 50/73 | 109/146 | |
| % 1st in | 81% | 68% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 35/59 | 30/50 | 65/109 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/14 | 9/23 | 14/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 36% | 39% | 38% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 7 | 13 | |
| Converted | 6/6 | 7/12 | 13/18 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 58% | 72% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 12 | 19 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 7/12 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 58% | 58% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
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