Matteo Viola and Omar Giacalone will face off in the 1st round of the Francavilla Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:30 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Viola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Viola is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Viola -> 1.59
Omar Giacalone -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Viola vs. Omar Giacalone
This will be the 3rd time that Matteo Viola and Omar Giacalone face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Viola and Giacalone (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Viola won 5-7 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Italy F27 back in 2016.
Matteo Viola
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-33 | 7-9 | 4-13 | 10-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 6-2 | 4-7 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2019 | 28-30 | 16-8 | 3-9 | 8-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 38-30 | 10-4 | 14-17 | 7-4 | 3-2 | 4-3 |
Ranked no. 419, Matteo will start his run in the Francavilla Challenger after he played his last match in the Mauthausen Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-0 to Shevchenko in the qualifications on the 2nd of May.
Matteo has an overall 1-6 win-loss record in 2022, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Matteo has an overall 424-365 record. He has a positive 217-192 record on clay.
Previously in the Francavilla Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Omar Giacalone
16 - 12win/loss
863
327
LLWWLWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16-13 | 7-5 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 15-9 | 8-12 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 29-7 | 29-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 12-8 | 1-2 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 16-21 | 8-5 | 8-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 731, the Italian reached the 1st round after defeating Augusto Virgili 3-6 7-64 6-3 and Jack Pinnington Jones 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Pinnington Jones (6-1 6-4). During the match Giacalone scored 59 points vs Pinnington Jones’s 42. Omar was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Giacalone scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Omar Giacalone lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Giacalone put 67% of his first serves in, winning 64% (21/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. Omar broke Pinnington Jones 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Omar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Italian has a composed 16-11 win-loss record in 2022, 9-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Francavilla Challenger
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Giovanni FonioFonio (7-61 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Jeremy JahnJahn (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dan AddedAdded – Nick HardtHardt (6-4 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero (6-3 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yibing WuWu – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Arthur ReymondReymond (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo ViolaViola – Omar GiacaloneGiacalone (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pawel CiasCias – Christopher HeymanHeyman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Davide GaloppiniGaloppini – Mathias BourgueBourgue (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Harold MayotMayot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco FortiForti – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gian Marco OrtenziMarco Ortenzi – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani (0-0) – H2H and prediction
