Roberto Carballes Baena and Luca Van Assche will square off in the 2nd round of the Valencia Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. 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 Roberto Carballes Baena who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roberto Carballes Baena is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Carballes Baena -> 1.3
Luca Van Assche -> 3.4
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Prediction and head to head Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Luca Van Assche
This will be the 3rd time that Roberto Carballes Baena and Luca Van Assche face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Carballes Baena (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Carballes Baena won 6-3 6-4 in the quarter in the Amersfoort Challenger back in July 2022.
Roberto Carballes Baena
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-18 | 4-5 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-29 | 3-8 | 19-14 | 1-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-33 | 3-8 | 41-23 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-30 | 3-5 | 33-20 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-18 | 3-4 | 16-12 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 76, the Spaniard got to the 2nd round after defeating Raul Brancaccio 7-5 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Brancaccio (7-5 6-0). During the match, Carballes Baena scored 74 points vs Brancaccio’s 58. The Spaniard was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Carballes Baena wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and he committed only 2 double faults. Roberto Carballes Baena lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Carballes Baena put 69% of his first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (7/21) on the 2nd serve. Roberto broke Brancaccio 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).
Carballes Baena has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (422-298). 41-22 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Carballes Baena has an aggregate 370-232 record in the last years on clay.
Roberto’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Gran Canaria Challenger,the Tunis Challenger,the Amersfoort Challenger and the Seville Challenger.
The Spaniard has an overall 46-32 win-loss record in 2022, 41-22 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Luca Van Assche
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-21 | 10-9 | 8-8 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 1-7 | 15-11 | 15-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-31 | 0-1 | 40-20 | 15-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 3-2 | 8-7 | 15-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 200, the French player reached the 2nd round after beating Andrea Collarini 6-2 2-0 ret..
In the 1st round against Collarini, Luca had a free pass after Collarini retired on a 6-2 2-0 . scoreline.
Van Assche’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne,the Lisbon Challenger and the Brest Challenger.
Luca has an overall 47-30 win-loss record in 2022, 32-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Carballes Baena | Van Assche |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 10 |
| Pts | 74-58 | 44-26 |
| Total Points | 132 | 70 |
| Winners | 32 | 6 |
| %Winners | 43% | 14% |
Both Carballes Baena and Van Assche played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Carballes Baena has played 1 set(s) less than Van Assche (2 vs 3). However, it’s interesting to notice that Carballes Baena played 8 games more than Van Assche. Carballes Baena scored 32 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The French player made 6 winners (14%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Carballes Baena | Van Assche |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 47/68 | 8/24 |
| %1st in | 69% | 33% |
| 1st pts | 32/47 | 6/8 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 7/21 | 11/16 |
| %2nd pts | 33% | 69% |
Carballes Baena didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Van Assche also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Carballes Baena won 68% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 33% of the points. On the other side, Van Assche won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Carballes Baena | Van Assche |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/12 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 71% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Carballes Baena broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Carballes Baena lost his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Van Assche broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Carballes Baena | |||
| R1 Brancaccio |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 74-58 | 74-58 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 47/68 | 47/68 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 32/47 | 32/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/21 | 7/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Van Assche | |||
| R1 Collarini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 2-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 10 | 10 | |
| pts | 44-26 | 44-26 | |
| Total points | 70 | 70 | |
| Winners | 6 | 6 | |
| %Winners | 14% | 14% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 8/24 | 8/24 | |
| % 1st in | 33% | 33% | |
| 1st pts | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWLWWL Tennis Scores in Valencia Challenger
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Alvaro Lopez San MartinLopez San Martin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Pedro SousaSousa (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Sumit NagalNagal (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-2 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
