Ramkumar Ramanathan and Salvatore Caruso will face off in the 2nd round of the Aix En Provence Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:30 am on COURT CENTRAL CEPAC. In the following lines 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 2 sets.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.3
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 3.52
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Prediction and head to head Ramkumar Ramanathan vs. Salvatore Caruso
This will be the 4th time that Ramkumar Ramanathan and Salvatore Caruso fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Caruso (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Caruso won 3-6 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in Pune back in 2020.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-19 | 7-17 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-26 | 22-23 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 185, the Indian got to the 2nd round after beating Fernando Verdasco 6-4 1-0 ret..
In the 1st round, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Verdasco (6-4 1-0 ret.). During the match, Ramanathan scored 45 points vs Verdasco’s 35. Ramanathan was exceptionally aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ramanathan managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Ramkumar Ramanathan lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ramanathan put 63% of his first serves in, winning 71% (17/24) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. The Indian broke Verdasco 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Ramanathan has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (357-280). 1-3 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ramanathan has a composed 65-66 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Indian has a compiled 3-11 win-loss record in 2022, 1-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Aix En Provence Challenger
Ramanathan has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 192, Salvatore got to the 2nd round after beating Titouan Droguet 6-1 7-62.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Droguet (6-1 7-62). During the match Caruso scored 77 points vs Droguet’s 62. Caruso was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Caruso bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 76% of his first serves in, winning 62% (32/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the 2nd serve. Salvatore broke Droguet 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
The Italian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.
The Italian has an overall 8-8 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ramanathan | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 11 | 20 |
| Pts | 45-35 | 77-62 |
| Total Points | 80 | 139 |
| Winners | 17 | 32 |
| %Winners | 38% | 42% |
Both Ramanathan and Caruso played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Ramanathan has played 1 set more than Caruso (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Ramanathan played 9 games less than Caruso. The Indian scored 17 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian made 32 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ramanathan | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 24/38 | 52/68 |
| %1st in | 63% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 17/24 | 32/52 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 62% |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 12/16 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 75% |
Ramanathan bagged 5 aces . Caruso struck 2 aces . Ramanathan won 71% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Caruso won 62% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ramanathan | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 75% | 57% |
| Conceded | 6 | 5 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 83% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Indian broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Ramkumar lost his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Salvatore broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Caruso conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ramanathan | |||
| R1 Verdasco | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 1-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 11 | 11 | |
| pts | 45-35 | 45-35 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/38 | 24/38 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 17/24 | 17/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Caruso | |||
| R1 Droguet | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 77-62 | 77-62 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 52/68 | 52/68 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 32/52 | 32/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Aix En Provence Challenger
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Corentin MoutetMoutet (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Quentin HalysHalys – Calvin HemeryHemery (2-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Pavel KotovKotov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Quentin HalysHalys (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (0-0) – H2H and prediction