Luca Nardi and Marcello Serafini will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Milan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on GRAND STAND. 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 Luca Nardi who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.24
Marcello Serafini -> 3.74
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Marcello Serafini
This will be the 2nd time that Luca Nardi and Marcello Serafini face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Nardi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Nardi won 6-3 6-4 in the semifinal in M15 Perugia back in 2021.
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-12 | 9-7 | 8-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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. 154, Luca will start his run in the Milan Challenger after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Daniel in the qualifications on the 28th of June.
The Italian has a composed 15-19 win-loss record in 2023, 5-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Luca’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Pune Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Nardi has an overall 95-76 record. He has a positive 48-38 record on clay.
Previously in the Milan Challenger
Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.
Marcello Serafini
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-13 | 0-0 | 11-5 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 6-2 |
| 2023 | 33-32 | 0-2 | 30-21 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 |
| 2022 | 34-24 | 14-6 | 20-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-21 | 12-6 | 15-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 475 (career-high), Marcello reached the 1st round after beating Chun Hsin Tseng 6-72 6-1 6-3 and Alex Marti Pujolras 7-65 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Marti Pujolras (7-65 6-0). During the match Serafini scored 79 points vs Marti Pujolras’s 57. Serafini was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Serafini scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Marcello Serafini lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Serafini put 69% of his first serves in, winning 65% (30/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the 2nd serve. Serafini broke Marti Pujolras 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Chieti.
Marcello has an aggregate 18-19 win-loss record in 2023, 15-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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