Emilio Nava and Federico Gaio will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Alicante Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emilio Nava who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emilio Nava is the pick to win this match.
Emilio Nava -> 1.30
Federico Gaio -> 3.40
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Prediction and head to head Emilio Nava vs. Federico Gaio
There is no head to head record between Emilio Nava and Federico Gaio since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Emilio Nava
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-20 | 11-8 | 4-6 | 4-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-31 | 24-14 | 12-8 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-27 | 15-15 | 14-6 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-16 | 9-6 | 27-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-12 | 10-7 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 176, the American got to the 2nd round after beating Harold Mayot 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Emilio had a good straight sets win against Mayot (6-3 6-4). During the match, Nava scored 64 points vs Mayot’s 53. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nava fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Emilio Nava was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (30/42) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Emilio broke Mayot 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Nava has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (109-65). 14-13 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nava has an aggregate47-38 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
Emilio’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Shymkent 1 Challenger.
Emilio has an overall 37-23 win-loss record in 2022, 14-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Federico Gaio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-16 | 2-7 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-30 | 14-12 | 25-15 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-28 | 9-9 | 8-15 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-38 | 6-8 | 14-16 | 13-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-19 | 5-4 | 10-12 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 376, Federico got to the 2nd round after defeating Diego Barreto Sanchez 6-2 6-3, Sergey Fomin 6-4 7-66 and Rudolf Molleker 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Gaio had a good straight sets win against Molleker (6-3 6-3). During the match Gaio scored 65 points vs Molleker’s 49. Gaio was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Gaio recorded 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Federico Gaio conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Gaio put 67% of his first serves in, winning 94% (30/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Gaio broke Molleker 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).
The Italian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Aguascalientes Challenger.
Gaio has an aggregate 16-25 win-loss record in 2022, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nava | Gaio |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 58 |
| Pts | 64-53 | 213-175 |
| Total Points | 117 | 388 |
| Winners | 30 | 85 |
| %Winners | 47% | 40% |
Nava played 1 match while Gaio competed in 3 matches. Gaio started his run from the qualifications while Nava had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Nava has played 4 set(s) less than Gaio (2 vs 6). Therefore, Nava played 39 games less than Gaio. Nava scored 30 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Federico managed to score 85 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nava | Gaio |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 17 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 5.7 |
| 1st in | 42/62 | 108/174 |
| %1st in | 68% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 30/42 | 85/108 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 32/66 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 48% |
Nava struck 2 aces . Gaio bagged 17 aces (5.7 per match). Nava won 71% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Gaio won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nava | Gaio |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 11 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 11/30 |
| % Converted | 33% | 37% |
| Conceded | 6 | 8 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 83% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Emilio broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Nava dropped his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponents 11 times with a 37% conversion rate. Federico conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nava | |||
| R1 Mayot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 64-53 | 64-53 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 42/62 | 42/62 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 30/42 | 30/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gaio | |||||
| Q1 Barreto |
Q3 Fomin |
R1 Molleker |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 7-66 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 23 | 18 | 58 | |
| pts | 69-49 | 79-77 | 65-49 | 213-175 | |
| Total points | 118 | 156 | 114 | 388 | |
| Winners | 22 | 33 | 30 | 85 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 42% | 46% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 27/49 | 49/77 | 32/48 | 108/174 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 64% | 67% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 33/49 | 30/32 | 85/108 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 67% | 94% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 13/28 | 7/16 | 32/66 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 46% | 44% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/8 | 3/13 | 11/30 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 50% | 23% | 37% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 2/5 | 1/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 40% | 100% | 190% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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