Stefano Napolitano and Gonzalo Villanueva will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Trieste Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL COURT GIORGI. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefano Napolitano who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefano Napolitano is the pick to win this match.
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.105
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 5.95
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Prediction and head to head Stefano Napolitano vs. Gonzalo Villanueva
There is no head to head record between Stefano Napolitano and Gonzalo Villanueva since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
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. 390, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Niccolo Ciavarella 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, Napolitano had a good straight sets win against Ciavarella (6-0 6-3). During the match, Napolitano scored 58 points vs Ciavarella’s 28. Stefano was pretty aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Regarding the service games, Napolitano struck 4 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Stefano Napolitano was quite effective on serve to win 76% (16/21) of his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Ciavarella 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Napolitano has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (268-227). 26-9 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Napolitano has a composed 128-108 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Frascati and M25 Biella.
The Italian has an aggregate 32-13 win-loss record in 2023, 26-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Stefano has never competed in this tournament before.
Gonzalo Villanueva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-26 | 0-0 | 29-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-40 | 5-4 | 39-36 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-33 | 1-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-29 | 5-10 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 482, Gonzalo reached the qualifications after defeating Mircea-Alexandru Jecan 6-3 3-6 6-1.
In the qualifications, Villanueva defeated Jecan (6-3 3-6 6-1). During the match Villanueva scored 80 points vs Jecan’s 68. The Argentine was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Villanueva couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Gonzalo Villanueva lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Villanueva put 73% of his first serves in, winning 70% (39/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. Villanueva broke Jecan 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Gonzalo’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Tigre 1 Challenger.
Villanueva has a composed 18-22 win-loss record in 2023, 14-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Napolitano | Villanueva |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 25 |
| Pts | 58-28 | 80-68 |
| Total Points | 86 | 148 |
| Winners | 16 | 39 |
| %Winners | 28% | 49% |
Both Napolitano and Villanueva played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Gonzalo Villanueva conceded 1 set while Stefano Napolitano hasn’t lost a set so far. Napolitano has played 1 set(s) less than Villanueva (2 vs 3). Therefore, Napolitano played 10 games less than Villanueva. Stefano scored 16 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine bagged 39 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Napolitano | Villanueva |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 21/33 | 56/77 |
| %1st in | 64% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 16/21 | 39/56 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/21 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 43% |
Napolitano scored 4 aces . Villanueva didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Napolitano won 76% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Villanueva won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Napolitano | Villanueva |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 75% | 45% |
| Conceded | 1 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Stefano broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Villanueva broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Villanueva conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded.
| Napolitano | |||
| Q1 Ciavarella |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-28 | 58-28 | |
| Total points | 86 | 86 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 21/33 | 21/33 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 16/21 | 16/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Villanueva | |||
| Q1 Jecan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 80-68 | 80-68 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 56/77 | 56/77 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 39/56 | 39/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/21 | 9/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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