Salvatore Caruso and Mirza Basic will play each other in the qualifications of the Zadar Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Salvatore Caruso who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Salvatore Caruso is the pick to win this match.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.63
Mirza Basic -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Mirza Basic
This will be the 5th time that Salvatore Caruso and Mirza Basic play each other. The head to head is 2-2 (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Caruso won 6-4 6-7(7) 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Napoli Challenger back in 2016.
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. 342, Salvatore got to the qualifications after defeating Giorgio Tabacco 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Tabacco (6-4 6-3). During the match, Caruso scored 63 points vs Tabacco’s 54. Caruso was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Caruso couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 65% of his first serves in, winning 60% (25/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the 2nd serve. Caruso broke Tabacco 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Caruso has good match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (315-264). 4-2 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Caruso has a compiled 171-135 match record in the last years on clay.
Salvatore’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Manama Challenger.
Caruso has an overall 9-6 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Caruso has never competed in this tournament before.
Mirza Basic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-9 | 0-2 | 5-5 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-19 | 0-1 | 23-12 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 17-29 | 1-6 | 6-11 | 8-9 | 1-2 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 37-27 | 9-7 | 17-13 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 8-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 468, Mirza got to the qualifications after defeating Piotr Matuszewski 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, Mirza had a good straight sets win against Matuszewski (6-0 6-2). During the match Basic scored 57 points vs Matuszewski’s 27. Mirza was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Basic was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mirza Basic was very efficient on serve to win 72% (21/29) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mirza broke Matuszewski 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
The Bosnian has an overall 8-6 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 14 |
| Pts | 63-54 | 57-27 |
| Total Points | 117 | 84 |
| Winners | 25 | 21 |
| %Winners | 40% | 37% |
Both Caruso and Basic 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, Caruso and Basic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Caruso played 5 games more than Basic. Caruso scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Bosnian blasted 21 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 42/65 | 29/44 |
| %1st in | 65% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 25/42 | 21/29 |
| %1st pts | 60% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 8/15 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 53% |
Caruso didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Basic also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Caruso won 60% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Basic won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Caruso | Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 63% | 67% |
| Conceded | 10 | 3 |
| Saved | 7 | 2 |
| % Saved | 70% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Salvatore broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Italian surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. Basic broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Bosnian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Caruso | |||
| Q1 Tabacco |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-54 | 63-54 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 42/65 | 42/65 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/42 | 25/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 7/10 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 70% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Basic | |||
| Q1 Matuszewski |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 57-27 | 57-27 | |
| Total points | 84 | 84 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/44 | 29/44 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 21/29 | 21/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 8/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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