Gianluca Mager and Ernests Gulbis will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Vicenza Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gianluca Mager who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gianluca Mager is the pick to win this match.
Gianluca Mager -> 1.38
Ernests Gulbis -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Gianluca Mager vs. Ernests Gulbis
This will be the 2nd time that Gianluca Mager and Ernests Gulbis face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mager (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Mager won 7-5 7-6(7) in the 1st round in the Aix En Provence Challenger back in 2018.
Gianluca Mager
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-20 | 3-5 | 15-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-28 | 2-5 | 17-21 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-28 | 4-7 | 22-15 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 1-4 | 10-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 119, Mager will start his run in the Vicenza Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-7(3) 6-2 6-4 to Gojo in the qualifications on the 16th of May.
The Italian has a composed 10-12 win-loss record in 2022, 8-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Mager’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Gran Canaria Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Gianluca has an overall 328-253 record. He has a positive 261-171 record on clay.
Previously in the Vicenza Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
Ernests Gulbis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-21 | 3-2 | 17-13 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-21 | 2-4 | 6-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 9-4 | 3-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2019 | 8-30 | 3-9 | 1-9 | 4-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 384, Gulbis reached the 1st round after beating Giulio Colacioppo 6-1 6-3 and Moez Echargui 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Ernests had a good straight sets win against Echargui (6-4 6-3). During the match Gulbis scored 59 points vs Echargui’s 47. Ernests was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Gulbis struck 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Ernests Gulbis lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Gulbis put 51% of his first serves in, winning 82% (23/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. Gulbis broke Echargui 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Latvian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Ernests’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Cherbourg Challenger.
Gulbis has a composed 12-9 win-loss record in 2022, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Vicenza Challenger
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (6-4 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Maxime JanvierJanvier (2-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Lukas RosolRosol (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Alexandre MullerMuller (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Nerman FaticFatic (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas BarrientosBarrientos – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Ernests GulbisGulbis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Francisco ComesanaComesana (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Kenny de Schepperde Schepper (0-0) – H2H and prediction
