Ernests Gulbis and Matteo Martineau will square off in the qualifications of the Trieste Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT GIORGI. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Martineau who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Martineau is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Martineau -> 1.833
Ernests Gulbis -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Ernests Gulbis vs. Matteo Martineau
There is no head to head record between Ernests Gulbis and Matteo Martineau since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
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. 379, Ernests got to the qualifications after defeating Jonathan Eysseric 2-6 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications against Eysseric, Ernests recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-2). During the match, Gulbis scored 76 points vs Eysseric’s 72. Ernests was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gulbis bagged 4 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Ernests Gulbis lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Gulbis put 52% of his first serves in, winning 77% (30/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (18/36) on the 2nd serve. Gulbis broke Eysseric 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Gulbis has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (218-199). 9-9 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Gulbis has an aggregate 75-74 match record in the last years on clay.
Gulbis’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Cherbourg Challenger.
The Latvian has a composed 17-15 win-loss record in 2022, 9-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Gulbis has never competed in this tournament before.
Matteo Martineau
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-36 | 0-1 | 23-17 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 9-3 |
| 2022 | 36-31 | 2-1 | 23-20 | 11-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-26 | 4-4 | 27-15 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 4-3 | 7-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 6-3 |
Ranked no. 383, the French player got to the qualifications after beating Matteo Marfia 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Marfia (6-2 6-1). During the match Martineau scored 55 points vs Marfia’s 28. Matteo was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Martineau blasted 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Matteo Martineau was extremely efficient on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Matteo broke Marfia 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Martineau has an overall 17-19 win-loss record in 2022, 15-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gulbis | Martineau |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 15 |
| Pts | 76-72 | 55-28 |
| Total Points | 148 | 83 |
| Winners | 30 | 20 |
| %Winners | 39% | 36% |
Both Gulbis and Martineau played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Ernests Gulbis lost 1 set while Matteo Martineau hasn’t conceded a set so far. Gulbis has played 1 set more than Martineau (3 vs 2). Therefore, Gulbis played 11 games more than Martineau. Gulbis scored 30 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Martineau bagged 20 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gulbis | Martineau |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 39/75 | 24/35 |
| %1st in | 52% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 20/24 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | 8/11 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 73% |
Gulbis bagged 4 aces . Martineau scored 3 aces . Gulbis won 77% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Martineau won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gulbis | Martineau |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 67% | 42% |
| Conceded | 7 | 0 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 57% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Gulbis broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Ernests dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Martineau broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Matteo was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Gulbis | |||
| Q1 Eysseric |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 76-72 | 76-72 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 39/75 | 39/75 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 30/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | 18/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Martineau | |||
| Q1 Marfia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 55-28 | 55-28 | |
| Total points | 83 | 83 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/35 | 24/35 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 20/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/11 | 8/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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