Giulio Zeppieri and Benoit Paire will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Karlsruhe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.37
Benoit Paire -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Giulio Zeppieri vs. Benoit Paire
There is no head to head record between Giulio Zeppieri and Benoit Paire since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Giulio Zeppieri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-11 | 8-4 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-26 | 7-5 | 19-13 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-31 | 1-2 | 25-22 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 0-0 | 26-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-12 | 0-0 | 7-7 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 125, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Akira Santillan 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Giulio had a good straight sets win against Santillan (6-3 7-5). During the match, Zeppieri scored 74 points vs Santillan’s 60. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zeppieri fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Giulio Zeppieri was very effective on serve to win 76% (37/49) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zeppieri broke Santillan twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Zeppieri has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 55% of his matches (125-101). 16-12 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Zeppieri has a composed105-77 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Cherbourg Challenger where he defeated Titouan Droguet in the final 7-5 7-6(4).
Giulio has an aggregate 27-16 win-loss record in 2023, 16-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Karlsruhe Challenger
Zeppieri has never competed in this tournament before.
Benoit Paire
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-13 | 3-6 | 0-2 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-38 | 13-12 | 27-17 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-31 | 7-13 | 6-14 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-32 | 6-12 | 7-13 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-13 | 8-6 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 147, Paire got to the 2nd round after defeating Hernan Casanova 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Paire had a good straight sets win against Casanova (6-3 7-5). During the match Paire scored 71 points vs Casanova’s 57. Paire was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Paire struck 7 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Benoit Paire lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Paire put 51% of his first serves in, winning 81% (29/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Benoit was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Casanova 3 times.
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Puerto Vallarta Challenger where he defeated Yuta Shimizu in the final 3-6 6-0 6-2.
Paire has a composed 23-22 win-loss record in 2023, 11-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zeppieri | Paire |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 |
| Pts | 74-60 | 71-57 |
| Total Points | 134 | 128 |
| Winners | 37 | 29 |
| %Winners | 50% | 41% |
Both Zeppieri and Paire played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zeppieri and Paire have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (21). The Italian scored 37 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Paire struck 29 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zeppieri | Paire |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 7 |
| 1st in | 49/72 | 36/70 |
| %1st in | 68% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 37/49 | 29/36 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 17/34 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 50% |
Zeppieri made 4 aces . Paire scored 7 aces . Zeppieri won 76% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Paire won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zeppieri | Paire |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 29% | 100% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Giulio broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Giulio extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. Benoit broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Paire conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zeppieri | |||
| R1 Santillan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 74-60 | 74-60 | |
| Total points | 134 | 134 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/72 | 49/72 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 37/49 | 37/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Paire | |||
| R1 Casanova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 71-57 | 71-57 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 36/70 | 36/70 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 17/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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