Joao Domingues and Salvatore Caruso will play each other in the qualifications of the Tenerife 3 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.55
Joao Domingues -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Joao Domingues vs. Salvatore Caruso
This will be the 3rd time that Joao Domingues and Salvatore Caruso play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Domingues and Caruso (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Caruso won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Barcelona Challenger back in 2019.
Joao Domingues
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-9 | 4-4 | 4-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-24 | 8-7 | 5-15 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-27 | 1-4 | 24-21 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-28 | 0-3 | 11-24 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-11 | 1-1 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 286, Joao reached the qualifications after defeating Yannick Mertens 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Mertens (6-4 6-2). During the match, Domingues scored 71 points vs Mertens’s 57. Domingues was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Domingues blasted 2 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Joao Domingues lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Domingues put 75% of his first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Mertens 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Domingues has good record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (286-221). 1-0 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Domingues has an aggregate 84-54 record in the last years on hard.
Joao has an aggregate 2-3 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tenerife 3 Challenger
Joao has never competed in this tournament before.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-10 | 8-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 388, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Alvaro Lopez San Martin 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, Salvatore had a good straight sets win against Lopez San Martin (6-0 6-3). During the match Caruso scored 65 points vs Lopez San Martin’s 35. Caruso was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Caruso bagged 2 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Salvatore Caruso was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (21/28) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Lopez San Martin 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Caruso has an overall 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Domingues | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 15 |
| Pts | 71-57 | 65-35 |
| Total Points | 128 | 100 |
| Winners | 32 | 21 |
| %Winners | 45% | 32% |
Both Domingues and Caruso played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Domingues and Caruso have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Domingues played 3 games more than Caruso. Domingues scored 32 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian bagged 21 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Domingues | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 47/63 | 28/48 |
| %1st in | 75% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 32/47 | 21/28 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 13/20 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 65% |
Domingues blasted 2 aces . Caruso recorded 2 aces . Domingues won 68% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Caruso won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Domingues | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 57% | 50% |
| Conceded | 10 | 2 |
| Saved | 9 | 1 |
| % Saved | 90% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Joao broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Portuguese dropped his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded. Caruso broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Salvatore conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Domingues | |||
| Q1 Mertens |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 71-57 | 71-57 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 47/63 | 47/63 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 32/47 | 32/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 8/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 9/10 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 90% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Caruso | |||
| Q1 Lopez San Martin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 65-35 | 65-35 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 28/48 | 28/48 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 21/28 | 21/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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