Sumit Nagal and Fausto Tabacco will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Rome Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CAMPO CENTRALE. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sumit Nagal who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sumit Nagal is the pick to win this match.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.32
Fausto Tabacco -> 3.16
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Prediction and head to head Sumit Nagal vs. Fausto Tabacco
There is no head to head record between Sumit Nagal and Fausto Tabacco since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Sumit Nagal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-27 | 2-3 | 30-23 | 2-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-29 | 15-13 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 9-8 | 32-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-18 | 0-1 | 16-17 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-26 | 1-4 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 347, Nagal got to the 2nd round after beating Jacopo Berrettini 6-4 6-1, Viktor Durasovic 7-5 5-7 6-2 and Francesco Maestrelli 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Maestrelli (6-2 6-4). During the match, Nagal scored 61 points vs Maestrelli’s 40. Sumit was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nagal couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Sumit Nagal was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Indian broke Maestrelli 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Nagal has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (270-179). 6-3 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Nagal has a compiled 184-108 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Sumit’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Chennai Challenger.
Sumit has an aggregate 14-10 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Fausto Tabacco
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-28 | 22-13 | 10-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-23 | 15-10 | 10-11 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-26 | 7-4 | 24-21 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-28 | 9-3 | 23-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-13 | 9-7 | 18-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 495, Fausto got to the 2nd round after beating Adrian Andreev 3-0 ret..
In the 1st round against Andreev, the Italian had a free pass after Andreev retired on a 3-0 . scoreline.
Fausto’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Monastir.
Fausto has an aggregate 13-8 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nagal | Tabacco |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 7 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 67 | 3 |
| Pts | 241-197 | 13-5 |
| Total Points | 438 | 18 |
| Winners | 99 | 4 |
| %Winners | 41% | 31% |
Nagal played 3 matches while Tabacco competed in 1 match. Nagal started his run from the qualifications while Tabacco had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Sumit Nagal surrendered 1 set while Fausto Tabacco hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Nagal has played 5 sets more than Tabacco (7 vs 2). Therefore, Nagal played 64 games more than Tabacco. Sumit scored 99 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Fausto struck 4 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nagal | Tabacco |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 158/215 | 4/6 |
| %1st in | 73% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 99/158 | 4/4 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 100% |
| 2nd pts | 33/57 | 0/2 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 0% |
Nagal recorded 3 aces (1 per match). Tabacco managed to score 1 ace . Nagal won 63% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Tabacco won 100% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 0% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nagal | Tabacco |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 17 | 2 |
| Converted | 17/25 | 2/4 |
| % Converted | 68% | 50% |
| Conceded | 18 | 0 |
| Saved | 10 | 0 |
| % Saved | 56% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 8 | 0 |
Sumit broke his opponents 17 times with a 68% conversion rate. Sumit surrendered his serve 8 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Fausto was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Nagal | |||||
| Q1 Berrettini |
Q3 Durasovic |
R1 Maestrelli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | 7-5 5-7 6-2 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 32 | 18 | 67 | |
| pts | 68-53 | 112-104 | 61-40 | 241-197 | |
| Total points | 121 | 216 | 101 | 438 | |
| Winners | 22 | 54 | 23 | 99 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 48% | 38% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 93/117 | 30/44 | 158/215 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 79% | 68% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 22/35 | 54/93 | 23/30 | 99/158 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 58% | 77% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 13/24 | 10/14 | 33/57 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 54% | 71% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 7 | 4 | 17 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 7/11 | 4/6 | 17/25 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 64% | 67% | 68% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 14 | 2 | 18 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 9/14 | 1/2 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 64% | 50% | 38% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |
| Tabacco | |||||
| R1 Andreev |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-0 ret. | ||||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |||
| Tot Games | 3 | 3 | |||
| pts | 13-5 | 13-5 | |||
| Total points | 18 | 18 | |||
| Winners | 4 | 4 | |||
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |||
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |||
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1st in | 4/6 | 4/6 | |||
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |||
| 1st pts | 4/4 | 4/4 | |||
| % 1st pts | 100% | 100% | |||
| 2nd pts | 0/2 | 0/2 | |||
| % 2nd pts | 0% | 0% | |||
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |||
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |||
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |||
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |||
| Saved % | – | 0% | |||
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |||
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