Alexis Galarneau and Riccardo Balzerani will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Francavilla Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:30 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexis Galarneau who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexis Galarneau is the pick to win this match.
Alexis Galarneau -> 1.23
Riccardo Balzerani -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Alexis Galarneau vs. Riccardo Balzerani
There is no head to head record between Alexis Galarneau and Riccardo Balzerani since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Alexis Galarneau
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-26 | 15-12 | 8-6 | 12-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-26 | 20-18 | 3-5 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-28 | 12-7 | 9-9 | 18-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-20 | 13-9 | 5-6 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-3 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 309, Galarneau reached the 2nd round after defeating Jeremy Jahn 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Galarneau had a good straight sets win against Jahn (6-4 6-3). During the match, Galarneau scored 72 points vs Jahn’s 56. Alexis was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Galarneau recorded 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Alexis Galarneau was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (34/47) of his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alexis broke Jahn 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Galarneau has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 56% of his matches (90-72). 6-4 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Galarneau has a composed12-13 record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Canadian has a compiled 18-10 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Francavilla Challenger
Galarneau has never competed in this tournament before.
Riccardo Balzerani
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20-19 | 1-1 | 18-15 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 7-6 | 13-16 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-21 | 4-3 | 16-14 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-9 | 12-4 | 3-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 30-31 | 11-8 | 16-20 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 517, Balzerani got to the 2nd round after defeating Tristan Schoolkate 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Riccardo had a good straight sets win against Schoolkate (6-4 6-2). During the match Balzerani scored 69 points vs Schoolkate’s 55. Balzerani was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Balzerani scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Riccardo Balzerani lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Balzerani put 62% of his first serves in, winning 61% (22/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the 2nd serve. Riccardo broke Schoolkate 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Balzerani’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Monastir.
Balzerani has a compiled 10-11 win-loss record in 2022, 4-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Galarneau | Balzerani |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 72-56 | 69-55 |
| Total Points | 128 | 124 |
| Winners | 34 | 22 |
| %Winners | 47% | 32% |
Both Galarneau and Balzerani played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Galarneau and Balzerani have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Galarneau played 1 game more than Balzerani. Galarneau scored 34 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 22 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Galarneau | Balzerani |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1 |
| 1st in | 47/75 | 36/58 |
| %1st in | 63% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 34/47 | 22/36 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 15/28 | 15/22 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 68% |
Galarneau blasted 4 aces . Balzerani bagged 1 ace . Galarneau won 72% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Balzerani won 61% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Galarneau | Balzerani |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 75% | 36% |
| Conceded | 8 | 2 |
| Saved | 7 | 1 |
| % Saved | 88% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Canadian broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Alexis surrendered his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. Riccardo broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Galarneau | |||
| R1 Jahn |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 72-56 | 72-56 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 47/75 | 47/75 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 34/47 | 34/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/28 | 15/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Balzerani | ||||
| Q3 Marco |
R1 Schoolkate |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 6-3 6-1 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 18 | 47 | |
| pts | – | 69-55 | 69-55 | |
| Total points | 0 | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1st in | / | 36/58 | 36/58 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | / | 22/36 | 22/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 0% | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | / | 15/22 | 15/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | ||
| Converted | / | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | ||
| Saved | 0/ | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | – | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | ||
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Francavilla Challenger
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Francesco FortiForti (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Gian Marco OrtenziMarco Ortenzi (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Matteo MartineauMartineau (4-6 6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Arthur ReymondReymond (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Harold MayotMayot (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Matteo ViolaViola – Omar GiacaloneGiacalone (6-2 7-63) – See score progression
- Pawel CiasCias – Christopher HeymanHeyman (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Davide GaloppiniGaloppini (4-6 6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Joao DominguesDomingues – Matteo GiganteGigante (5-7 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Yibing WuWu – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Jeremy JahnJahn (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero (6-3 5-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Giovanni FonioFonio (7-61 6-1) – See score progression
- Dan AddedAdded – Nick HardtHardt (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo ViolaViola – Mate ValkuszValkusz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pawel CiasCias – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Joao DominguesDomingues (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yibing WuWu – Mathias BourgueBourgue (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dan AddedAdded – Filippo BaldiBaldi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
