Thiago Moura Monteiro and Salvatore Caruso will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Perugia Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:00 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 Thiago Moura Monteiro who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thiago Moura Monteiro is the pick to win this match.
Thiago Moura Monteiro -> 1.26
Salvatore Caruso -> 3.85
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Prediction and head to head Thiago Moura Monteiro vs. Salvatore Caruso
This will be the 2nd time that Thiago Moura Monteiro and Salvatore Caruso face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Caruso (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Caruso won 7-6(6) 6-2 in the 1st round in the Caltanissetta Challenger back in 2018.
Thiago Moura Monteiro
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 35-22 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 34-30 | 3-7 | 30-22 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 43-33 | 8-8 | 28-16 | 4-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
2021 | 33-27 | 8-8 | 25-18 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 27-18 | 7-9 | 20-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 99, the Brazilian reached the 2nd round after defeating Giorgio Tabacco 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Brazilian had a good straight sets win against Tabacco (6-2 6-1). During the match, Moura Monteiro scored 58 points vs Tabacco’s 34. The Brazilian was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Moura Monteiro bagged 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Thiago Moura Monteiro was quite effective on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Thiago broke Tabacco 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Moura Monteiro has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (363-256). 16-12 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Moura Monteiro has an overall 297-187 record in the last years on clay.
Moura Monteiro’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Madrid Challenger.
Thiago has an overall 20-17 win-loss record in 2022, 16-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Perugia Challenger
Moura Monteiro has never competed in this tournament before.
Salvatore Caruso
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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. 206, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Elliot Benchetrit 7-63 6-3.
In the 1st round, Caruso had a good straight sets win against Benchetrit (7-63 6-3). During the match Caruso scored 85 points vs Benchetrit’s 68. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Caruso scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Salvatore Caruso was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (39/53) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Benchetrit twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
Caruso’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.
Caruso has an overall 11-12 win-loss record in 2022, 6-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Perugia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Moura Monteiro | Caruso |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 15 | 22 |
Pts | 58-34 | 85-68 |
Total Points | 92 | 153 |
Winners | 26 | 39 |
%Winners | 45% | 46% |
Both Moura Monteiro and Caruso played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Moura Monteiro and Caruso have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Moura Monteiro played 7 games less than Caruso. Thiago scored 26 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Caruso bagged 39 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Moura Monteiro | Caruso |
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Aces | 3 | 1 |
Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
1st in | 35/53 | 53/74 |
%1st in | 66% | 72% |
1st pts | 26/35 | 39/53 |
%1st pts | 74% | 74% |
2nd pts | 12/18 | 13/21 |
%2nd pts | 67% | 62% |
Moura Monteiro managed to score 3 aces . Caruso blasted 1 ace . Moura Monteiro won 74% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Caruso won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Moura Monteiro | Caruso |
---|---|---|
Won | 4 | 2 |
Converted | 4/6 | 2/10 |
% Converted | 67% | 20% |
Conceded | 3 | 9 |
Saved | 3 | 8 |
% Saved | 100% | 89% |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Moura Monteiro broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Moura Monteiro extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Salvatore broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Salvatore conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded.
Moura Monteiro | |||
R1 Tabacco |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
pts | 58-34 | 58-34 | |
Total points | 92 | 92 | |
Winners | 26 | 26 | |
%Winners | 45% | 45% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
% 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
% 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Caruso | |||
R1 Benchetrit |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-63 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
pts | 85-68 | 85-68 | |
Total points | 153 | 153 | |
Winners | 39 | 39 | |
%Winners | 46% | 46% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 53/74 | 53/74 | |
% 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
1st pts | 39/53 | 39/53 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
% 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
Saved | 8/9 | 8 | |
Saved % | 89% | 89% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
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