Mate Valkusz and Matteo Viola will face off in the 2^nd round of the Francavilla Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mate Valkusz who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mate Valkusz is the pick to win this match.
Mate Valkusz -> 1.171
Matteo Viola -> 5.05

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Prediction and head to head Mate Valkusz vs. Matteo Viola

This will be the 2^nd time that Mate Valkusz and Matteo Viola square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Valkusz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Valkusz won 0-6 6-2 6-1 in the quarter in Croatia F2 (Porec) back in 2018.

Mate Valkusz

Ranked no. 268, Mate got to the 2^nd round after defeating Carlos Gimeno Valero 6-3 5-2 ret..

In the 1^st round, The Hungarian had a good straight sets win against Gimeno Valero (6-3 5-2 ret.). During the match, Valkusz scored 73 points vs Gimeno Valero’s 57. The Hungarian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Valkusz scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Mate Valkusz lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Valkusz put 51% of his first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (19/36) on the 2nd serve. The Hungarian broke Gimeno Valero 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Valkusz has a fantastic match record in the last 8 years having won 71% of his matches (158-63). 20-3 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Valkusz has a composed126-39 record in the last 8 years on clay.

Valkusz’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Opatija.

Mate has a composed 23-7 win-loss record in 2022, 20-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Francavilla Challenger

Valkusz has never competed in this tournament before.

Matteo Viola

Ranked no. 419, Matteo got to the 2^nd round after defeating Omar Giacalone 6-2 7-6³.

In the 1^st round, Matteo had a good straight sets win against Giacalone (6-2 7-6³). During the match Viola scored 73 points vs Giacalone’s 61. Viola was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Viola was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Matteo Viola lost the serve 4 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Viola put 60% of his first serves in, winning 57% (24/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Viola broke Giacalone 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).

Matteo has an aggregate 2-6 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Valkusz	Viola
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	16	21
Pts	73-57	73-61
Total Points	130	134
Winners	25	24
%Winners	34%	33%

Both Valkusz and Viola played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Valkusz has played 1 set more than Viola (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Valkusz played 5 games less than Viola. The Hungarian scored 25 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian fired 24 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Valkusz	Viola
Aces	1	0
Avg per match	1	0
1st in	37/73	42/70
%1st in	51%	60%
1st pts	25/37	24/42
%1st pts	68%	57%
2nd pts	19/36	14/28
%2nd pts	53%	50%

Valkusz bagged 1 ace . Viola didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Valkusz won 68% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Viola won 57% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Valkusz	Viola
Won	4	6
Converted	4/8	6/8
% Converted	50%	75%
Conceded	10	12
Saved	9	8
% Saved	90%	67%
Times Broken	1	4

Mate broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Valkusz lost his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded. Viola broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Matteo conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Valkusz
	R1 Gimeno	Total
Score	6-3 5-2 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	73-57	73-57
Total points	130	130
Winners	25	25
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	37/73	37/73
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	25/37	25/37
% 1st pts	68%	68%
2nd pts	19/36	19/36
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	10	10
Saved	9/10	9
Saved %	90%	90%
Times Broken	1	1

Viola
	R1 Giacalone	Total
Score	6-2 7-63
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	73-61	73-61
Total points	134	134
Winners	24	24
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	42/70	42/70
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	24/42	24/42
% 1st pts	57%	57%
2nd pts	14/28	14/28
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	12	12
Saved	8/12	8
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	4	4

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
• Filippo BaldiBaldi – Harold MayotMayot (6-1 3-6 6-3) – 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
• 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
• Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-4 6-2) – 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
• Mate ValkuszValkusz – Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero (6-3 5-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Dan AddedAdded – Nick HardtHardt (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Giovanni FonioFonio (7-6¹ 6-1) – 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
• 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