Matteo Arnaldi and Alex Bolt will play each other in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on Court 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Arnaldi who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Matteo Arnaldi is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Arnaldi -> 1.3
Alex Bolt -> 3.36

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Prediction and head to head Matteo Arnaldi vs. Alex Bolt

There is no head to head record between Matteo Arnaldi and Alex Bolt since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Matteo Arnaldi

Ranked no. 134, Matteo reached the qualifications after beating Alexander Ritschard 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Matteo had a good straight sets win against Ritschard (6-3 7-5). During the match, Arnaldi scored 79 points vs Ritschard’s 66. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Arnaldi recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Matteo Arnaldi was very efficient on serve to win 75% (30/40) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Arnaldi broke Ritschard 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Arnaldi has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 62% of his matches (138-83). 2-1 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Arnaldi has a composed38-14 record in the last 6 years on hard.

Arnaldi has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Matteo has never competed in this tournament before.

Alex Bolt

Ranked no. 639, Bolt got to the qualifications after defeating Renzo Olivo 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Olivo (6-1 6-2). During the match Bolt scored 56 points vs Olivo’s 34. Bolt was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Bolt fired 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alex Bolt conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 54% of his first serves in, win 82% (23/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Bolt was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Olivo 4 times.

Bolt has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2019. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Arnaldi	Bolt
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	15
Pts	79-66	56-34
Total Points	145	90
Winners	30	23
%Winners	38%	41%

Both Arnaldi and Bolt played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Arnaldi and Bolt have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Arnaldi played 6 games more than Bolt. Matteo scored 30 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Alex made 23 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Arnaldi	Bolt
Aces	3	4
Avg per match	3	4
1st in	40/74	28/52
%1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	30/40	23/28
%1st pts	75%	82%
2nd pts	19/34	12/24
%2nd pts	56%	50%

Arnaldi managed to score 3 aces . Bolt scored 4 aces . Arnaldi won 75% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Bolt won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Arnaldi	Bolt
Won	3	4
Converted	3/5	4/4
% Converted	60%	100%
Conceded	5	0
Saved	4	0
% Saved	80%	0%
Times Broken	1	0

The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Arnaldi surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Australian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Arnaldi
	Q1 Ritschard	Total
Score	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	79-66	79-66
Total points	145	145
Winners	30	30
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	40/74	40/74
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	30/40	30/40
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	19/34	19/34
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

Bolt
	Q1 Olivo	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	56-34	56-34
Total points	90	90
Winners	23	23
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	28/52	28/52
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	23/28	23/28
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	12/24	12/24
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/4	4/4
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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