Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna and Ernests Gulbis will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Trieste Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on GRAND STAND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna is the pick to win this match.
Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna -> 1.63
Ernests Gulbis -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna vs. Ernests Gulbis
There is no head to head record between Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna and Ernests Gulbis since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 7-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 163, the Argentine will start his run in the Trieste Challenger after he played his last match in the Verona Challenger where he lost 6-1 4-2 ret. to Muller in the 1st round on the 12th of July.
Fa Rodriguez Taverna has an overall 29-15 win-loss record in 2022, 28-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Argentine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Buenos Aires Challenger,the Concepcion Challenger and M25 Rosario.
Talking about his overall career, Santiago has an overall 209-125 record. He has a positive 148-91 record on clay.
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Santiago has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 375, the Latvian got to the 1st round after defeating Jonathan Eysseric 2-6 6-4 6-2 and Matteo Martineau 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Ernests had a good straight sets win against Martineau (6-3 6-4). During the match Gulbis scored 59 points vs Martineau’s 49. Gulbis was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Gulbis scored 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ernests Gulbis lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Gulbis put 53% of his first serves in, winning 78% (21/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (10/24) on the 2nd serve. Gulbis broke Martineau 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ernests started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Gulbis’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Cherbourg Challenger.
The Latvian has a composed 18-15 win-loss record in 2022, 10-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Trieste Challenger
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-4 2-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (5-7 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Norbert GombosGombos – Federico GaioGaio (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Andrej MartinMartin (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni OradiniOradini – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Gilles SimonSimon (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Dennis NovakNovak (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Andrey ChepelevChepelev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
