Salvatore Caruso and Nerman Fatic will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Trieste Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT GIORGI. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Salvatore Caruso who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Salvatore Caruso is the pick to win this match.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.6
Nerman Fatic -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Nerman Fatic
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Nerman Fatic since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. 263, Caruso got to the 2nd round after beating Giovanni Oradini 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Salvatore had a good straight sets win against Oradini (6-3 6-4). During the match, Caruso scored 68 points vs Oradini’s 55. Salvatore was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about the service games, Caruso scored 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 51% of his first serves in, winning 55% (17/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the 2nd serve. Caruso broke Oradini 7 times after converting 70% of his break points (7/10).
Caruso has a positive match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (340-278). 7-9 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Caruso has an aggregate 202-148 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Salvatore’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.
The Italian has an overall 14-16 win-loss record in 2022, 7-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Salvatore has never competed in this tournament before.
Nerman Fatic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-18 | 2-1 | 44-15 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-26 | 3-5 | 19-20 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 0-1 | 35-25 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 34-27 | 0-1 | 31-19 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 37-26 | 1-1 | 30-22 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 284, Fatic reached the 2nd round after defeating Gianluca Mager 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, Nerman had a good straight sets win against Mager (6-3 6-0). During the match Fatic scored 66 points vs Mager’s 43. The Bosnian was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Fatic recorded 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Nerman Fatic was very effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Fatic broke Mager 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Nerman’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Antalya.
Nerman has an aggregate 18-16 win-loss record in 2022, 18-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Fatic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 15 |
| Pts | 68-55 | 66-43 |
| Total Points | 123 | 109 |
| Winners | 17 | 23 |
| %Winners | 25% | 35% |
Both Caruso and Fatic played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Caruso and Fatic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Caruso played 4 games more than Fatic. The Italian scored 17 winners (25% of the total points). On the other side, The Bosnian scored 23 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Fatic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 28/58 |
| %1st in | 51% | 48% |
| 1st pts | 17/31 | 23/28 |
| %1st pts | 55% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 53% |
Caruso fired 2 aces . Fatic struck 6 aces . Caruso won 55% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Fatic won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Caruso | Fatic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 4 |
| Converted | 7/10 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 70% | 50% |
| Conceded | 11 | 4 |
| Saved | 7 | 4 |
| % Saved | 64% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Salvatore broke his opponent 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Salvatore lost his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. The Bosnian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Bosnian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Caruso | |||
| R1 Oradini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-55 | 68-55 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 31/61 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 17/31 | 17/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 55% | 55% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/10 | 7/10 | |
| Converted % | 70% | 70% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 64% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Fatic | |||
| R1 Mager |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 66-43 | 66-43 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 28/58 | 28/58 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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