Matteo Arnaldi and Sandro Kopp will face off in the 1st round of the Genova Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CAMPO 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Arnaldi who should win in 2 sets.
Matteo Arnaldi -> 1.21
Sandro Kopp -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Arnaldi vs. Sandro Kopp
This will be the 2nd time that Matteo Arnaldi and Sandro Kopp clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kopp (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Kopp won 7-6(8) 2-6 6-3 in the quarter in M15 Antalya back in 2021.
Matteo Arnaldi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-26 | 11-14 | 7-6 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-26 | 17-13 | 10-9 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-26 | 21-15 | 23-7 | 4-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-35 | 9-3 | 37-20 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-24 | 2-1 | 51-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 157 (career-high), Matteo will start his run in the Genova Challenger after he played his last match in the Szczecin Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 7-5 to Moutet in the quarter on the 16th of September.
Matteo has an overall 39-26 win-loss record in 2022, 36-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Matteo’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Francavilla Challenger and the San Marino Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Arnaldi has an overall 125-73 record. He has a positive 91-47 record on clay.
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Matteo has never competed in this tournament before.
Sandro Kopp
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54-27 | 10-5 | 38-19 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-26 | 5-3 | 32-21 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 0-0 | 26-22 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2022 | 54-26 | 6-5 | 32-16 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-6 | 30-16 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 549, Sandro got to the 1st round after beating Andrea Basso 6-1 7-61 and Oleg Prihodko 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Prihodko (6-4 6-4). During the match Kopp scored 64 points vs Prihodko’s 56. The Austrian was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Kopp blasted 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sandro Kopp was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sandro broke Prihodko twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sandro started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
The Austrian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Innsbruck and M15 Malmo.
Sandro has a composed 40-20 win-loss record in 2022, 32-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Genova Challenger
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (2-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Martin KrumichKrumich (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Gianluca MagerMager (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey ChepelevChepelev – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sandro KoppKopp – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-0) – H2H and prediction