Nicholas David Ionel and Salvatore Caruso will square off in the 2^nd round of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:30 pm on CENTRAL TAG HEUER. 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 Salvatore Caruso who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Salvatore Caruso is the pick to win this match.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.68
Nicholas David Ionel -> 2.13

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Prediction and head to head Nicholas David Ionel vs. Salvatore Caruso

There is no head to head record between Nicholas David Ionel and Salvatore Caruso since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Nicholas David Ionel

Ranked no. 263, David Ionel got to the 2^nd round after beating Mathys Erhard 6-2 6-4, Mathias Bourgue 7-6⁵ 2-6 6-3 and Jack Sock 6-4 5-4 ret..

In the 1^st round against Sock, the Romanian had a free pass after Sock retired on a 6-4 5-4 . scoreline.

David Ionel has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 64% of his matches (153-85). 13-5 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, David Ionel has a composed43-18 record in the last 5 years on hard.

Nicholas’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Marrakech,M25 Pitesti and M15 Craiova.

The Romanian has an aggregate 56-26 win-loss record in 2022, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger

The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.

Salvatore Caruso

Ranked no. 271, Caruso reached the 2^nd round after beating Mathieu Scaglia 6-4 6-3, Steven Diez 6-3 6-2 and Frederico Ferreira Silva 6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6³.

In the 1^st round, The Italian defeated Ferreira Silva (6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6³). During the match Caruso scored 108 points vs Ferreira Silva’s 98. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 48 winners.

About the serving games, Caruso recorded 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Salvatore Caruso was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (48/63) of his 1st serve and 61% (27/44) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Salvatore broke Ferreira Silva 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Salvatore’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Bendigo Challenger.

Salvatore has a compiled 20-21 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	David Ionel	Caruso
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	8	7
Tot Games	67	70
Pts	223-196	241-193
Total Points	419	434
Winners	88	99
%Winners	39%	41%

Both David Ionel and Caruso played 3 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Nicholas David Ionel lost 1 set, while Salvatore Caruso surrendered 1 set. David Ionel has played 1 set more than Caruso (8 vs 7). However, it’s interesting to notice that David Ionel played 3 games less than Caruso. David Ionel scored 88 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 99 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	David Ionel	Caruso
Aces	6	9
Avg per match	2	3
1st in	118/190	139/227
%1st in	62%	61%
1st pts	88/118	99/139
%1st pts	75%	71%
2nd pts	39/72	51/88
%2nd pts	54%	58%

David Ionel scored 6 aces (2 per match). Caruso scored 9 aces (3 per match). David Ionel won 75% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Caruso won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	David Ionel	Caruso
Won	10	12
Converted	10/27	12/23
% Converted	37%	52%
Conceded	11	13
Saved	5	9
% Saved	45%	69%
Times Broken	6	4

Nicholas broke his opponents 10 times with a 37% conversion rate. The Romanian surrendered his serve 6 times and he saved 45% of the break points that he conceded. Caruso broke his opponents 12 times with a 52% conversion rate. Salvatore conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.

David Ionel
	Q1 Erhard	Q3 Bourgue	R1 Sock	Total
Score	6-2 6-4	7-65 2-6 6-3	6-4 5-4 ret.
Tot Set	2	3	2	7
Tot Games	18	30	19	67
pts	61-45	100-99	62-52	223-196
Total points	106	199	114	419
Winners	23	35	30	88
%Winners	38%	35%	48%	39%
SERVE
Aces	1	3	2	6
Double Faults	1	4	0	5
1st in	27/44	56/98	35/48	118/190
% 1st in	61%	57%	73%	62%
1st pts	23/27	35/56	30/35	88/118
% 1st pts	85%	63%	86%	75%
2nd pts	10/17	21/42	8/13	39/72
% 2nd pts	59%	50%	62%	54%
Breaks
Won	4	4	2	10
Converted	4/7	4/12	2/8	10/27
Converted %	57%	33%	25%	37%
Conceded	1	9	1	11
Saved	0/1	4/9	1/1	5
Saved %	0%	44%	100%	48%
Times Broken	1	5	0	6

Caruso
	Q1 Scaglia	Q3 Diez	R1 Ferreira Silva	Total
Score	6-4 6-3	6-3 6-2	6-2 6-75 7-63
Tot Set	2	2	3	7
Tot Games	19	17	34	70
pts	62-44	71-51	108-98	241-193
Total points	106	122	206	434
Winners	20	31	48	99
%Winners	32%	44%	44%	41%
SERVE
Aces	0	1	8	9
Double Faults	1	1	3	5
1st in	31/50	45/70	63/107	139/227
% 1st in	62%	64%	59%	61%
1st pts	20/31	31/45	48/63	99/139
% 1st pts	65%	69%	76%	71%
2nd pts	12/19	12/25	27/44	51/88
% 2nd pts	63%	48%	61%	58%
Breaks
Won	5	4	3	12
Converted	5/9	4/5	3/9	12/23
Converted %	56%	80%	33%	52%
Conceded	5	4	4	13
Saved	3/5	3/4	3/4	9
Saved %	60%	75%	75%	70%
Times Broken	2	1	1	4

Tennis Scores in St. Tropez Challenger

• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Mattia BellucciBellucci – Louis WesselsWessels (6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Harold MayotMayot – Federico GaioGaio (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-6⁹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Dan AddedAdded (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Jack SockSock (6-4 5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Jesper De JongDe Jong (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Nick HardtHardt – Jurgen BriandBriand (3-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Clement TaburTabur (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Miljan ZekicZekic (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Lukas RosolRosol – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Laurent LokoliLokoli (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-1 7-6⁸) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Lukas RosolRosol – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nick HardtHardt – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-0) – H2H and prediction