Matteo Arnaldi and Gilles Simon will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Arnaldi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Arnaldi is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Arnaldi -> 1.6
Gilles Simon -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Arnaldi vs. Gilles Simon
This will be the 2nd time that Matteo Arnaldi and Gilles Simon clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Arnaldi (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Arnaldi won 6-1 3-6 6-4 in the qualifications in at the U.S. Open back in August 2022.
Matteo Arnaldi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-11 | 10-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-26 | 21-15 | 23-7 | 4-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-35 | 9-3 | 37-20 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-24 | 2-1 | 51-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 141 (career-high), Matteo got to the 2nd round after beating Nino Serdarusic 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Arnaldi had a good straight sets win against Serdarusic (6-1 6-2). During the match, Arnaldi scored 61 points vs Serdarusic’s 37. Matteo was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Arnaldi scored 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Matteo Arnaldi conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Arnaldi put 63% of his first serves in, winning 87% (26/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Serdarusic 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Arnaldi has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 64% of his matches (134-77). 2-6 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Arnaldi has an aggregate6-14 win-loss record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
The Italian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Francavilla Challenger,the San Marino Challenger and the St. Tropez Challenger.
The Italian has a composed 48-30 win-loss record in 2022, 2-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Gilles Simon
22 - 28win/loss
143
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LWWWWLLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25-29 | 7-6 | 4-10 | 11-10 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-24 | 2-4 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 4-4 | 1-5 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 28-27 | 8-11 | 5-5 | 7-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 35-26 | 8-7 | 10-8 | 13-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 195, the French player reached the 2nd round after defeating Laurent Lokoli 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Gilles had a good straight sets win against Lokoli (6-2 6-4). During the match Simon scored 75 points vs Lokoli’s 53. Simon was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Simon made 3 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Gilles Simon was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Gilles broke Lokoli 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).
The French player has a compiled 22-28 win-loss record in 2022, 8-9 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Arnaldi | Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 18 |
| Pts | 61-37 | 75-53 |
| Total Points | 98 | 128 |
| Winners | 26 | 26 |
| %Winners | 43% | 35% |
Both Arnaldi and Simon played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Arnaldi and Simon have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Arnaldi played 3 games less than Simon. Matteo scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Simon made 26 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Arnaldi | Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 30/48 | 36/51 |
| %1st in | 63% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 26/30 | 26/36 |
| %1st pts | 87% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | 10/15 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 67% |
Arnaldi made 7 aces . Simon blasted 3 aces . Arnaldi won 87% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Simon won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Arnaldi | Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/16 |
| % Converted | 50% | 25% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Arnaldi broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Italian pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Simon broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Arnaldi | |||
| R1 Serdarusic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 61-37 | 61-37 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/48 | 30/48 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 26/30 | 26/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | 9/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Simon | |||
| R1 Lokoli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 75-53 | 75-53 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 36/51 | 36/51 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 26/36 | 26/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 4/16 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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