Matteo Gigante and Ulises Blanch will square off in the 1st round of the Tenerife 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 Ulises Blanch who should win in 3 sets.
Ulises Blanch -> 1.87
Matteo Gigante -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Gigante vs. Ulises Blanch
There is no head to head record between Matteo Gigante and Ulises Blanch since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Matteo Gigante
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-23 | 9-9 | 15-8 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-25 | 27-10 | 11-10 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 10-5 | 19-18 | 1-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 9-1 | 27-15 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-15 | 2-2 | 16-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 258, Matteo will start his run in the Tenerife 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-4 6-4
to Herbert in the 1st round on the 9th of January.The Italian has an aggregate 1-2 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Matteo has an overall 70-49 record. He has a positive 12-4 record on hard.
Previously in the Tenerife 1 Challenger
Matteo has never competed in this tournament before.
Ulises Blanch
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-9 | 10-4 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-23 | 14-11 | 7-7 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 10-12 | 6-5 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 16-21 | 11-13 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 322, the American got to the 1st round after beating Hamad Medjedovic 3-6 7-5 6-3 and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Mpetshi Perricard (6-4 6-4). During the match Blanch scored 68 points vs Mpetshi Perricard’s 53. Ulises was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Blanch made 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ulises Blanch was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (30/34) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Blanch broke Mpetshi Perricard twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Blanch started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Ulises has a composed 2-0 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Tenerife 1 Challenger
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Benoit PairePaire (7-65 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (7-69 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gianluca MagerMager – Lukas RosolRosol (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Manuel GuinardGuinard (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Radu AlbotAlbot – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Flavio CobolliCobolli (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Mate ValkuszValkusz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Nick HardtHardt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Francesco PassaroPassaro (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Lucas GerchGerch (0-0) – H2H and prediction