Giovanni Fonio and Damien Wenger will square off in the qualifications of the Zadar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giovanni Fonio is the pick to win this match.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.51
Damien Wenger -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Giovanni Fonio vs. Damien Wenger
There is no head to head record between Giovanni Fonio and Damien Wenger since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Giovanni Fonio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-18 | 9-7 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-39 | 22-12 | 28-26 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 0-0 | 40-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-7 | 8-3 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 341, Giovanni got to the qualifications after defeating Patrik Jurina 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Giovanni had a good straight sets win against Jurina (6-2 6-2). During the match, Fonio scored 55 points vs Jurina’s 32. Giovanni was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fonio fired 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Giovanni Fonio was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 79% (11/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Jurina 4 times.
Fonio has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (232-153). 1-0 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Fonio has an aggregate174-115 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
Fonio’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and M25 Loule.
The Italian has an overall 18-8 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Fonio has never competed in this tournament before.
Damien Wenger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-14 | 0-0 | 21-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 0-0 | 46-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 0-0 | 46-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 63-22 | 0-0 | 63-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-12 | 0-1 | 16-6 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 405, Damien got to the qualifications after beating Nikola Basic 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Damien had a good straight sets win against Basic (6-3 6-1). During the match Wenger scored 63 points vs Basic’s 41. Wenger was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Wenger bagged 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Damien Wenger lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Wenger put 63% of his first serves in, winning 68% (21/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the 2nd serve. Damien broke Basic 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
The Swiss’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya.
Damien has a composed 7-4 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fonio | Wenger |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 55-32 | 63-41 |
| Total Points | 87 | 104 |
| Winners | 21 | 21 |
| %Winners | 38% | 33% |
Both Fonio and Wenger 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, Fonio and Wenger have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Fonio scored 21 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Wenger made 21 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fonio | Wenger |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 27/41 | 31/49 |
| %1st in | 66% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 21/27 | 21/31 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 11/14 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 79% | 56% |
Fonio bagged 2 aces . Wenger fired 2 aces . Fonio won 78% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 79% of the points. On the other side, Wenger won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fonio | Wenger |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 75% |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Giovanni broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Italian pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Swiss broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Damien conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Fonio | |||
| Q1 Jurina |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 55-32 | 55-32 | |
| Total points | 87 | 87 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 27/41 | 27/41 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 21/27 | 21/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/14 | 11/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 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 | |
| Wenger | |||
| Q1 Basic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 63-41 | 63-41 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/49 | 31/49 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 21/31 | 21/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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