Felipe Meligeni Alves and Gianluca Mager will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Lyon Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court SOPRA STERIA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gianluca Mager who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gianluca Mager is the pick to win this match.
Gianluca Mager -> 1.87
Felipe Meligeni Alves -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Gianluca Mager
This will be the 2nd time that Felipe Meligeni Alves and Gianluca Mager square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Meligeni Alves (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Meligeni Alves won 4-6 6-3 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in the Punta Del Este Challenger back in 2020.
Felipe Meligeni Alves
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-16 | 2-5 | 17-8 | 0-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 8-6 | 26-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 0-3 | 33-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-28 | 1-2 | 33-25 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-10 | 0-2 | 19-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 156, the Brazilian reached the 2nd round after defeating Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida 3-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Pucinelli De Almeida, Meligeni Alves recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match, Meligeni Alves scored 89 points vs Pucinelli De Almeida’s 88. The Brazilian was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Meligeni Alves blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Felipe Meligeni Alves lost the serve 5 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Meligeni Alves put 59% of his first serves in, winning 60% (32/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (17/37) on the 2nd serve. Meligeni Alves broke Pucinelli De Almeida 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Meligeni Alves has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (257-169). 14-13 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Meligeni Alves has an overall232-143 record in the last 8 years on clay.
Meligeni Alves’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 4 Challenger.
Felipe has a composed 17-17 win-loss record in 2023, 14-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Felipe has never competed in this tournament before.
Gianluca Mager
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-20 | 3-5 | 15-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-28 | 2-5 | 17-21 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-28 | 4-7 | 22-15 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 1-4 | 10-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 253, Mager got to the 2nd round after beating Mariano Navone 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Navone (7-5 6-1). During the match Mager scored 63 points vs Navone’s 49. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Mager fired 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Gianluca Mager was exceptionally effective on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mager broke Navone 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
The Italian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Antalya Challenger.
Gianluca has an aggregate 16-15 win-loss record in 2023, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Meligeni Alves | Mager |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 19 |
| Pts | 89-88 | 63-49 |
| Total Points | 177 | 112 |
| Winners | 32 | 24 |
| %Winners | 36% | 38% |
Both Meligeni Alves and Mager played 1 match. At the moment, Felipe Meligeni Alves surrendered 1 set while Gianluca Mager hasn’t dropped a set so far. Meligeni Alves has played 1 set more than Mager (3 vs 2). Therefore, Meligeni Alves played 9 games more than Mager. Meligeni Alves scored 32 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Gianluca scored 24 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Meligeni Alves | Mager |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 53/90 | 33/60 |
| %1st in | 59% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 32/53 | 24/33 |
| %1st pts | 60% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 17/37 | 15/27 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 56% |
Meligeni Alves fired 2 aces . Mager bagged 2 aces . Meligeni Alves won 60% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Mager won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Meligeni Alves | Mager |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 60% | 80% |
| Conceded | 13 | 1 |
| Saved | 8 | 0 |
| % Saved | 62% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
Felipe broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Brazilian surrendered his serve 5 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded. Mager broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Meligeni Alves | |||
| R1 Pucinelli De Almeida |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 89-88 | 89-88 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 53/90 | 53/90 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 32/53 | 32/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/37 | 17/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 8/13 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 62% | 62% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Mager | |||
| R1 Navone |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-49 | 63-49 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 33/60 | 33/60 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/27 | 15/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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