Luca Nardi and Matteo Gigante will face off in the 1st round of the Verona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.68
Matteo Gigante -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Matteo Gigante
There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Matteo Gigante since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-23 | 13-13 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-36 | 20-10 | 8-13 | 12-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 5-2 | 11-10 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-3 | 26-13 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-9 | 7-2 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 174 (career-high), Luca will start his run in the Verona Challenger after he played his last match in the Salzburg Challenger where he lost 5-7 7-5 6-2 to Gombos in the 1st round on the 4th of July.
Luca has an overall 19-11 win-loss record in 2022, 9-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Forli 1 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Nardi has an overall 66-48 record. He has a positive 41-27 record on clay.
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.
Matteo Gigante
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-22 | 24-8 | 11-10 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 10-5 | 19-18 | 1-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 9-1 | 27-15 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-15 | 2-2 | 16-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-9 | 1-1 | 2-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 296 (career-high), Gigante got to the 1st round after beating Giovanni Oradini 6-4 6-3 and Francesco Forti 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Gigante had a good straight sets win against Forti (6-2 6-2). During the match Gigante scored 72 points vs Forti’s 51. Gigante was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Gigante made 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Matteo Gigante was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Forti 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Matteo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Matteo’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Italian has an overall 29-13 win-loss record in 2022, 18-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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