Otto Virtanen and Stefano Napolitano will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Turin Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 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 Stefano Napolitano who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefano Napolitano is the pick to win this match.
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.85
Otto Virtanen -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Otto Virtanen vs. Stefano Napolitano
There is no head to head record between Otto Virtanen and Stefano Napolitano since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-28 | 9-11 | 5-7 | 24-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 117, Virtanen will start his run in the Turin Challenger after he played his last match in Rome where he lost 4-6 6-1 6-2 to Agamenone in the qualifications on the 8th of May.
Virtanen has a compiled 17-13 win-loss record in 2023, 1-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Lugano Challenger where he beat Cem Ilkel in the final 6-4 7-6(5) and the Lille Challenger where he defeated Max Purcell in the final 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Virtanen has an overall 146-90 record. He has a negative 36-37 record on clay.
Previously in the Turin Challenger
Otto has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-17 | 10-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-23 | 9-6 | 38-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 1-1 | 20-15 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-17 | 1-2 | 1-9 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 555, Stefano got to the 1st round after beating Andrey Golubev 6-1 6-3 and Gianluca Mager 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Stefano had a good straight sets win against Mager (6-3 6-2). During the match Napolitano scored 67 points vs Mager’s 49. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Napolitano struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Stefano Napolitano lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Napolitano put 59% of his first serves in, winning 64% (27/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Mager 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Napolitano started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Stefano’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Monastir.
Stefano has an overall 15-8 win-loss record in 2023, 9-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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