Salvatore Caruso and Andrea Picchione will face off in the qualifications of the Rome Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CAMPO CENTRALE. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Salvatore Caruso is the pick to win this match.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.31
Andrea Picchione -> 3.22
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Andrea Picchione
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Andrea Picchione since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-10 | 8-9 | 3-1 | 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. 284, the Italian got to the qualifications after beating Alessio Balestrieri 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Balestrieri (6-0 6-2). During the match, Caruso scored 53 points vs Balestrieri’s 20. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Regarding the service games, Caruso bagged 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Salvatore Caruso was exceptionally effective on serve to win 89% (16/18) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Caruso was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Balestrieri 5 times.
Caruso has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (320-270). 9-8 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Caruso has a compiled 176-141 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Caruso’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Manama Challenger.
Salvatore has a compiled 14-12 win-loss record in 2023, 9-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Andrea Picchione
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-16 | 0-0 | 28-12 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-31 | 16-9 | 30-19 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-31 | 10-5 | 32-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-21 | 6-4 | 28-16 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 672, Andrea got to the qualifications after beating Remy Bertola 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Andrea had a good straight sets win against Bertola (6-3 6-2). During the match Picchione scored 68 points vs Bertola’s 48. Picchione was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Picchione managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Andrea Picchione lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Picchione put 59% of his first serves in, winning 70% (19/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Picchione broke Bertola 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Andrea’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Monastir.
The Italian has an overall 15-10 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Picchione |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 17 |
| Pts | 53-20 | 68-48 |
| Total Points | 73 | 116 |
| Winners | 16 | 19 |
| %Winners | 30% | 28% |
Both Caruso and Picchione 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 Picchione have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Caruso played 3 games less than Picchione. Caruso scored 16 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian fired 19 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Picchione |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 2 |
| 1st in | 18/35 | 27/46 |
| %1st in | 51% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 16/18 | 19/27 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 9/19 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 47% |
Caruso recorded 7 aces . Picchione bagged 2 aces . Caruso won 89% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Picchione won 70% 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 | Caruso | Picchione |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/5 | 6/11 |
| % Converted | 100% | 55% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Salvatore was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Picchione broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Caruso | |||
| Q1 Balestrieri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 53-20 | 53-20 | |
| Total points | 73 | 73 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 18/35 | 18/35 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 16/18 | 16/18 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Picchione | |||
| Q1 Bertola |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-48 | 68-48 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 19/27 | 19/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 9/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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