Luca Nardi and Pablo Llamas Ruiz will face off in the quarter of the Vicenza Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pablo Llamas Ruiz who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pablo Llamas Ruiz is the pick to win this match.
Pablo Llamas Ruiz -> 1.71
Luca Nardi -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
This will be the 2nd time that Luca Nardi and Pablo Llamas Ruiz play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nardi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Nardi won 6-2 5-7 7-5 in the quarter in M25 Madrid back in 2021.
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 9-7 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-36 | 20-10 | 8-13 | 12-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 5-2 | 11-10 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-3 | 26-13 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-9 | 7-2 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 151, Nardi reached the quarter after beating Luciano Darderi 1-6 6-1 6-3 and Dalibor Svrcina 3-6 7-65 6-2.
In the 2nd round against Svrcina, Luca recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-65 6-2). During the match, Nardi scored 108 points vs Svrcina’s 105. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nardi was unable to score even 1 ace during the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Luca Nardi lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Nardi put 72% of his first serves in, winning 62% (44/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the 2nd serve. Nardi broke Svrcina 5 times after converting 28% of his break points (5/18).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Luca has dropped 2 set in this tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Nardi has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (94-74). 5-8 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nardi has an aggregate48-37 record in the last 6 years on clay.
Luca’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Pune Challenger.
Luca has an aggregate 14-17 win-loss record in 2023, 5-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Vicenza Challenger
Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.
Pablo Llamas Ruiz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-16 | 2-5 | 10-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-21 | 12-6 | 33-12 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-23 | 2-4 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-16 | 2-2 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-5 | 2-4 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223 (career-high), the Spaniard got to the quarter after beating Sho Shimabukuro 6-3 6-3 and Stefano Travaglia 4-6 6-1 6-2.
In the 2nd round against Travaglia, Pablo recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-2). During the match Llamas scored 78 points vs Travaglia’s 59. Llamas was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Llamas couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Pablo Llamas Ruiz was extremely efficient on serve to win 78% (40/51) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pablo broke Travaglia 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Pablo’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Palmanova.
Pablo has a compiled 29-10 win-loss record in 2023, 24-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nardi | Llamas |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 53 | 43 |
| Pts | 192-180 | 135-97 |
| Total Points | 372 | 232 |
| Winners | 78 | 65 |
| %Winners | 41% | 48% |
Both Nardi and Llamas played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Luca Nardi surrendered 2 sets, while Pablo Llamas Ruiz surrendered 1 set. Nardi has played 1 set more than Llamas (6 vs 5). Therefore, Nardi played 10 games more than Llamas. Luca scored 78 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Llamas bagged 65 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nardi | Llamas |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2.5 | 0.5 |
| 1st in | 120/172 | 83/121 |
| %1st in | 70% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 78/120 | 65/83 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 28/52 | 23/38 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 61% |
Nardi blasted 5 aces (2.5 per match). Llamas scored 1 ace (0.5 per match). Nardi won 65% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Llamas won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nardi | Llamas |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 8 |
| Converted | 9/29 | 8/13 |
| % Converted | 31% | 62% |
| Conceded | 19 | 6 |
| Saved | 13 | 4 |
| % Saved | 68% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 2 |
Nardi broke his opponents 9 times with a 31% conversion rate. Luca lost his serve 6 times and he saved 68% of the break points that he conceded. The Spaniard broke his opponents 8 times with a 62% conversion rate. Llamas conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nardi | ||||
| R1 Darderi |
R2 Svrcina |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 6-1 6-3 | 3-6 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 30 | 53 | |
| pts | 84-75 | 108-105 | 192-180 | |
| Total points | 159 | 213 | 372 | |
| Winners | 34 | 44 | 78 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 49/74 | 71/98 | 120/172 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 72% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 34/49 | 44/71 | 78/120 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 62% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 15/27 | 28/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 56% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 5/18 | 9/29 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 28% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 11 | 19 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 7/11 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 64% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Llamas | ||||
| R1 Shimabukuro |
R2 Travaglia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | 4-6 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 25 | 43 | |
| pts | 57-38 | 78-59 | 135-97 | |
| Total points | 95 | 137 | 232 | |
| Winners | 25 | 40 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 51% | 48% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 32/47 | 51/74 | 83/121 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 40/51 | 65/83 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 13/23 | 23/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 57% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/8 | 8/13 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 50% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 3/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 75% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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