
Emilio Nava and Nick Hardt will square off in the quarter of the Alicante Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 5:00 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.36
Nick Hardt -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Emilio Nava vs. Nick Hardt
This will be the 2nd time that Emilio Nava and Nick Hardt fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hardt (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Hardt won 6-2 4-6 6-0 in the qualifications in the Columbus Challenger back in January 2022.
Emilio Nava
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 8-7 | 0-2 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 34-34 | 16-15 | 8-9 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 176, the American reached the quarter after defeating Harold Mayot 6-3 6-4 and Federico Gaio 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Nava had a good straight sets win against Gaio (6-3 6-2). During the match, Nava scored 59 points vs Gaio’s 41. Emilio was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nava bagged 6 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Emilio Nava was extremely effective on serve to win 84% (27/32) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nava broke Gaio 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nava hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Nava has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (110-65). 15-13 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nava has a compiled48-38 record in the last 5 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Shymkent 1 Challenger.
The American has an aggregate 38-23 win-loss record in 2022, 15-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Nick Hardt
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 41-25 | 6-6 | 34-18 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 22-28 | 11-9 | 10-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 51-25 | 18-6 | 28-16 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 44-19 | 9-6 | 35-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 255 (career-high), Nick reached the quarter after beating Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-2 1-0 ret. and Nicolas Alvarez Varona 7-66 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Nick had a good straight sets win against Alvarez Varona (7-66 6-4). During the match Hardt scored 83 points vs Alvarez Varona’s 68. The Dominican was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Hardt blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nick Hardt lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Hardt put 72% of his first serves in, winning 69% (33/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the 2nd serve. The Dominican broke Alvarez Varona 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Nick’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,M25 La Nucia,M25 Denia and M25 Wetzlar.
The Dominican has an overall 39-20 win-loss record in 2022, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Hardt has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Nava | Hardt |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
Tot Games | 36 | 32 |
Pts | 123-94 | 117-87 |
Total Points | 217 | 204 |
Winners | 57 | 43 |
%Winners | 46% | 37% |
Both Nava and Hardt played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Nava has played 1 set(s) less than Hardt (4 vs 5). However, it’s interesting to notice that Nava played 4 games more than Hardt. Nava scored 57 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Dominican recorded 43 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Nava | Hardt |
---|---|---|
Aces | 8 | 4 |
Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
1st in | 74/118 | 65/93 |
%1st in | 63% | 70% |
1st pts | 57/74 | 43/65 |
%1st pts | 77% | 66% |
2nd pts | 25/44 | 21/28 |
%2nd pts | 57% | 75% |
Nava struck 8 aces (4 per match). Hardt recorded 4 aces (2 per match). Nava won 77% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Hardt won 66% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Nava | Hardt |
---|---|---|
Won | 6 | 6 |
Converted | 6/15 | 6/15 |
% Converted | 40% | 40% |
Conceded | 12 | 6 |
Saved | 11 | 3 |
% Saved | 92% | 50% |
Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Emilio broke his opponents 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. The American surrendered his serve once and he saved 92% of the break points that he conceded. Nick broke his opponents 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Dominican conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
Nava | ||||
R1 Mayot |
R2 Gaio |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 17 | 36 | |
pts | 64-53 | 59-41 | 123-94 | |
Total points | 117 | 100 | 217 | |
Winners | 30 | 27 | 57 | |
%Winners | 47% | 46% | 46% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 2 | 6 | 8 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
1st in | 42/62 | 32/56 | 74/118 | |
% 1st in | 68% | 57% | 63% | |
1st pts | 30/42 | 27/32 | 57/74 | |
% 1st pts | 71% | 84% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 11/20 | 14/24 | 25/44 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 58% | 57% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Converted | 3/9 | 3/6 | 6/15 | |
Converted % | 33% | 50% | 40% | |
Conceded | 6 | 6 | 12 | |
Saved | 5/6 | 6/6 | 11 | |
Saved % | 83% | 100% | 92% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Hardt | ||||
R1 Blancaneaux |
R2 Alvarez |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 1-0 ret. | 7-66 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 9 | 23 | 32 | |
pts | 34-19 | 83-68 | 117-87 | |
Total points | 53 | 151 | 204 | |
Winners | 10 | 33 | 43 | |
%Winners | 29% | 40% | 37% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 17/26 | 48/67 | 65/93 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 72% | 70% | |
1st pts | 10/17 | 33/48 | 43/65 | |
% 1st pts | 59% | 69% | 66% | |
2nd pts | 8/9 | 13/19 | 21/28 | |
% 2nd pts | 89% | 68% | 75% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Converted | 3/5 | 3/10 | 6/15 | |
Converted % | 60% | 30% | 40% | |
Conceded | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Saved | 0/1 | 3/5 | 3 | |
Saved % | 0% | 60% | 30% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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