Matias Zukas and Francesco Forti will play each other in the qualifications of the San Marino Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesco Forti who should win in 3 sets.
Francesco Forti -> 1.44
Matias Zukas -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Matias Zukas vs. Francesco Forti
There is no head to head record between Matias Zukas and Francesco Forti since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Matias Zukas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12-21 | 0-1 | 12-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-25 | 1-2 | 25-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-26 | 0-0 | 45-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-12 | 6-5 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 49-27 | 3-3 | 46-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 371 (career-high), Matias got to the qualifications after defeating Manuel Mazza 6-3 1-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Zukas defeated Mazza (6-3 1-6 6-3). During the match, Zukas scored 80 points vs Mazza’s 77. Matias was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zukas struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Matias Zukas lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zukas put 59% of his first serves in, winning 71% (30/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. Matias broke Mazza 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).
Zukas has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (299-186). 17-14 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zukas has an aggregate281-170 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Radomlje.
The Argentine has an overall 17-15 win-loss record in 2022, 17-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Marino Challenger
Zukas has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Forti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-33 | 20-8 | 26-21 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 31-22 | 1-1 | 29-18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-29 | 1-1 | 35-20 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 425, Forti reached the qualifications after beating Yan Bondarevskiy 7-5 6-1.
In the qualifications, Forti had a good straight sets win against Bondarevskiy (7-5 6-1). During the match Forti scored 69 points vs Bondarevskiy’s 51. Forti was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Forti struck 7 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Francesco Forti lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Forti put 57% of his first serves in, winning 89% (31/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Bondarevskiy 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
The Italian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Casinalbo,M15 Gubbio and M25 Bolzano.
The Italian has an overall 18-13 win-loss record in 2022, 18-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Marino Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zukas | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 19 |
| Pts | 80-77 | 69-51 |
| Total Points | 157 | 120 |
| Winners | 30 | 31 |
| %Winners | 38% | 45% |
Both Zukas and Forti played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Matias Zukas surrendered 1 set while Francesco Forti hasn’t conceded a set so far. Zukas has played 1 set more than Forti (3 vs 2). Therefore, Zukas played 6 games more than Forti. The Argentine scored 30 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 31 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zukas | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 7 |
| 1st in | 42/71 | 35/61 |
| %1st in | 59% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 30/42 | 31/35 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 13/29 | 11/26 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 42% |
Zukas blasted 3 aces . Forti fired 7 aces . Zukas won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Forti won 89% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zukas | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/15 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 27% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 33% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
Zukas broke his opponent 4 times with a 27% conversion rate. Zukas conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Francesco broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Francesco conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zukas | |||
| Q1 Mazza | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 1-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 80-77 | 80-77 | |
| Total points | 157 | 157 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 42/71 | 42/71 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 30/42 | 30/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/29 | 13/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/15 | 4/15 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/6 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Forti | |||
| Q1 Bondarevskiy | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 69-51 | 69-51 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 35/61 | 35/61 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 31/35 | 31/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/26 | 11/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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