Mattia Bellucci and Elliot Benchetrit will face off in the qualifications of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CENTRAL TAG HEUER. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mattia Bellucci who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mattia Bellucci is the pick to win this match.
Mattia Bellucci -> 1.59
Elliot Benchetrit -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Mattia Bellucci vs. Elliot Benchetrit
This will be the 2nd time that Mattia Bellucci and Elliot Benchetrit clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Benchetrit (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Benchetrit won 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in the Forli 1 Challenger back in January 2022.
Mattia Bellucci
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-21 | 4-8 | 5-2 | 5-7 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-34 | 22-19 | 2-9 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-23 | 30-4 | 25-12 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-18 | 29-10 | 5-3 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-6 | 13-3 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 275, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Alexandre Aubriot 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Bellucci had a good straight sets win against Aubriot (6-2 6-2). During the match, Bellucci scored 57 points vs Aubriot’s 35. Mattia was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bellucci bagged 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mattia Bellucci was quite effective on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mattia broke Aubriot 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Bellucci has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 68% of his matches (139-64). 24-4 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bellucci has an aggregate74-25 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
Bellucci’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir,M15 Poitiers,M25 Grasse and M25 Klosters.
Mattia has an aggregate 54-20 win-loss record in 2022, 24-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Elliot Benchetrit
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-13 | 4-4 | 17-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-15 | 17-7 | 11-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-26 | 12-9 | 11-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-20 | 5-5 | 8-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-15 | 3-3 | 3-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 400, Benchetrit reached the qualifications after beating Gian Marco Moroni 6-3 0-0 ret..
In the qualifications against Marco Moroni, the French player had a free pass after Marco Moroni retired on a 6-3 0-0 . scoreline.
Elliot’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Sintra.
Benchetrit has a compiled 23-21 win-loss record in 2022, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bellucci | Benchetrit |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 9 |
| Pts | 57-35 | 42-35 |
| Total Points | 92 | 77 |
| Winners | 23 | 14 |
| %Winners | 40% | 33% |
Both Bellucci and Benchetrit played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Bellucci has played 1 set(s) less than Benchetrit (2 vs 3). However, it’s interesting to notice that Bellucci played 7 games more than Benchetrit. Mattia scored 23 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Elliot bagged 14 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bellucci | Benchetrit |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 20/29 |
| %1st in | 59% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 14/20 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 5/9 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 56% |
Bellucci struck 4 aces . Benchetrit scored 3 aces . Bellucci won 85% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Benchetrit won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bellucci | Benchetrit |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 44% | 40% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Bellucci broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Mattia quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Benchetrit broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Benchetrit was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Bellucci | |||
| Q1 Aubriot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-35 | 57-35 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 23/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Benchetrit | |||
| Q1 Marco Moroni |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 0-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 9 | 9 | |
| pts | 42-35 | 42-35 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 14 | 14 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 20/29 | 20/29 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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