Mariano Navone and Nicholas David Ionel will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Barletta Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.78
Mariano Navone -> 1.952

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Prediction and head to head Mariano Navone vs. Nicholas David Ionel

This will be the 3^rd time that Mariano Navone and Nicholas David Ionel play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for David (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, David won 4-6 7-5 7-5 in the quarter in M15 Tabarka back in 2019.

Mariano Navone

Ranked no. 229 (career-high), Navone reached the 2^nd round after beating Filip Misolic 7-5 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Mariano had a good straight sets win against Misolic (7-5 7-5). During the match, Navone scored 77 points vs Misolic’s 68. The Argentine was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Navone scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault. Mariano Navone lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Navone put 62% of his first serves in, winning 66% (29/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Misolic 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Navone has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 64% of his matches (156-89). 6-8 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Navone has a composed152-86 match record in the last 6 years on clay.

The Argentine has a compiled 6-8 win-loss record in 2023, 6-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Barletta Challenger

Mariano has never competed in this tournament before.

Nicholas David Ionel

Ranked no. 240, David reached the 2^nd round after defeating Gabriele Piraino 6-4 4-6 6-3.

In the 1^st round, David defeated Piraino (6-4 4-6 6-3). During the match David scored 92 points vs Piraino’s 81. The Romanian was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, David was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Nicholas David Ionel lost the serve 5 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, David put 55% of his first serves in, winning 73% (30/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (16/34) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Piraino 7 times after converting 47% of his break points (7/15).

The Romanian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Jakarta.

Nicholas has a compiled 14-10 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Navone	David
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	24	29
Pts	77-68	92-81
Total Points	145	173
Winners	29	30
%Winners	38%	33%

Both Navone and David played 1 match. At the moment, Nicholas David Ionel dropped 1 set while Mariano Navone hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Navone has played 1 set(s) less than David (2 vs 3). Therefore, Navone played 5 games less than David. Navone scored 29 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Nicholas struck 30 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Navone	David
Aces	1	0
Avg per match	1	0
1st in	44/71	41/75
%1st in	62%	55%
1st pts	29/44	30/41
%1st pts	66%	73%
2nd pts	14/27	16/34
%2nd pts	52%	47%

Navone recorded 1 ace . David didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Navone won 66% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, David won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Navone	David
Won	5	7
Converted	5/7	7/15
% Converted	71%	47%
Conceded	7	8
Saved	4	3
% Saved	57%	38%
Times Broken	3	5

Navone broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Navone dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. David broke his opponent 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 38% of the break points that he conceded.

Navone
	R1 Misolic	Total
Score	7-5 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	24	24
pts	77-68	77-68
Total points	145	145
Winners	29	29
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	44/71	44/71
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	29/44	29/44
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	14/27	14/27
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/7
Converted %	71%	71%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	4/7	4
Saved %	57%	57%
Times Broken	3	3

David
	R1 Piraino	Total
Score	6-4 4-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	29	29
pts	92-81	92-81
Total points	173	173
Winners	30	30
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	41/75	41/75
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	30/41	30/41
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	16/34	16/34
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/15	7/15
Converted %	47%	47%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	3/8	3
Saved %	38%	38%
Times Broken	5	5

Tennis Scores in Barletta Challenger

• Mariano NavoneNavone – Filip MisolicMisolic (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (7-6¹⁰ 6-3) – See score progression
• Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Dane SweenySweeny (6-1 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Titouan DroguetDroguet – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Gabriele PirainoPiraino (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna – Benoit PairePaire (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Zsombor PirosPiros – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Steven DiezDiez – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (7-6⁵ 6-1) – See score progression
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (7-6³ 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-4 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – James McCabeMcCabe (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Laurent LokoliLokoli – Gianluca MagerMager (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Matteo GiganteGigante – Miljan ZekicZekic (3-6 6-1 7-6⁷) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Steven DiezDiez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (2-3) – H2H and prediction
• Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zsombor PirosPiros – Zdenek KolarKolar (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Titouan DroguetDroguet – Laurent LokoliLokoli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Mariano NavoneNavone (2-0) – H2H and prediction