Salvatore Caruso and Steven Diez will face off in the qualifications of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Salvatore Caruso who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Salvatore Caruso is the pick to win this match.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.39
Steven Diez -> 2.81
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Steven Diez
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Steven Diez since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-11 | 8-9 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 271, Salvatore got to the qualifications after beating Mathieu Scaglia 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Salvatore had a good straight sets win against Scaglia (6-4 6-3). During the match, Caruso scored 62 points vs Scaglia’s 44. Caruso was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Caruso couldn’t to score even 1 ace and he committed only 1 double fault. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 62% of his first serves in, winning 65% (20/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the 2nd serve. Salvatore broke Scaglia 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Caruso has good match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (344-283). 7-5 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Caruso has an aggregate 85-63 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Salvatore’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.
Caruso has an overall 18-21 win-loss record in 2022, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Steven Diez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-16 | 10-8 | 0-2 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-36 | 7-13 | 16-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-32 | 13-12 | 22-19 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-28 | 3-6 | 12-16 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-16 | 2-5 | 8-8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 378, the Canadian reached the qualifications after defeating Mikail Alimli 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Diez had a good straight sets win against Alimli (6-0 6-1). During the match Diez scored 54 points vs Alimli’s 23. Diez was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Diez bagged 2 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Steven Diez conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Diez put 70% of his first serves in, winning 70% (23/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the 2nd serve. Diez broke Alimli 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Diez’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Sierre and Bigorre.
Steven has an overall 28-28 win-loss record in 2022, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Diez |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 13 |
| Pts | 62-44 | 54-23 |
| Total Points | 106 | 77 |
| Winners | 20 | 23 |
| %Winners | 32% | 43% |
Both Caruso and Diez played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Caruso and Diez have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Caruso played 6 games more than Diez. Salvatore scored 20 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Steven struck 23 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Diez |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 2 |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 33/47 |
| %1st in | 62% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 20/31 | 23/33 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 10/14 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 71% |
Caruso didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Diez made 2 aces . Caruso won 65% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Diez won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Caruso | Diez |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 56% | 71% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 60% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Caruso broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Salvatore lost his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Steven broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Diez was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Caruso | |||
| Q1 Scaglia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 62-44 | 62-44 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 31/50 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 20/31 | 20/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Diez | |||
| Q1 Alimli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 54-23 | 54-23 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/47 | 33/47 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 23/33 | 23/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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