Mattia Bellucci and Arthur Cazaux will face off in the 1st round of the Split Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Arthur Cazaux who should win in 3 sets.
Arthur Cazaux -> 1.63
Mattia Bellucci -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Mattia Bellucci vs. Arthur Cazaux
This will be the 2nd time that Mattia Bellucci and Arthur Cazaux square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cazaux (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Cazaux won 6-0 6-1 in the semifinal in M15 Torello back in 2020.
Mattia Bellucci
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-20 | 4-8 | 5-2 | 5-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-34 | 22-19 | 2-9 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-23 | 30-4 | 25-12 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-18 | 29-10 | 5-3 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-6 | 13-3 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 151, Mattia will start his run in the Split Challenger after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-1 6-3 to Zhang in the qualifications on the 20th of March.
The Italian has an aggregate 5-9 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Mattia has an overall 156-76 record. He has a positive 44-25 record on clay.
Previously in the Split Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Arthur Cazaux
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-11 | 12-5 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-29 | 31-13 | 11-9 | 3-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-14 | 14-3 | 4-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-19 | 16-4 | 22-11 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 9-3 | 3-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 199 (career-high), the French player got to the 1st round after beating Vito Tonejc 6-3 6-1 and Juan Bautista Torres 7-5 7-62.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Bautista Torres (7-5 7-62). During the match Cazaux scored 86 points vs Bautista Torres’s 78. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Cazaux fired 2 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Arthur Cazaux lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Cazaux put 62% of his first serves in, winning 71% (35/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (12/30) on the 2nd serve. Arthur broke Bautista Torres 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Arthur started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he overcame Lloyd Harris in the final 7-6(5) 6-2.
The French player has a composed 22-5 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Split Challenger
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Gabriel DebruDebru (4-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Lukas KleinKlein (3-6 6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Norbert GombosGombos – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-1 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Kacper ZukZuk – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip MisolicMisolic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Harold MayotMayot – (0-0) – H2H and prediction