Nicholas David Ionel and Gabriele Piraino will play each other in the 1st round of the Barletta Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicholas David Ionel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicholas David Ionel is the pick to win this match.
Nicholas David Ionel -> 1.59
Gabriele Piraino -> 2.25
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Prediction and head to head Nicholas David Ionel vs. Gabriele Piraino
There is no head to head record between Nicholas David Ionel and Gabriele Piraino since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Nicholas David Ionel
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 56-30 | 0-2 | 56-27 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 50-38 | 7-7 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 66-33 | 17-9 | 48-20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 47-33 | 14-4 | 33-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 19-14 | 16-8 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 240, the Romanian will start his run in the Barletta Challenger after he played his last match in the Girona Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Munar Clar in the 2nd round on the 30th of March.
David Ionel has a composed 13-10 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
David Ionel’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Jakarta.
Talking about his overall career, Nicholas has an overall 176-102 record. He has a positive 121-69 record on clay.
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Gabriele Piraino
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 29-22 | 5-6 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 27-31 | 4-3 | 23-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 37-26 | 2-2 | 35-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 503, Piraino got to the 1st round after beating Sumit Nagal 6-2 6-4 and Jeremy Jahn 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Gabriele had a good straight sets win against Jahn (6-2 6-3). During the match Piraino scored 69 points vs Jahn’s 54. Gabriele was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Piraino scored 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Gabriele Piraino lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Piraino put 52% of his first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Piraino broke Jahn 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Piraino started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Gabriele’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio.
Gabriele has an aggregate 7-5 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Matteo GiganteGigante – Miljan ZekicZekic (3-6 6-1 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – James McCabeMcCabe (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Laurent LokoliLokoli – Gianluca MagerMager (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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