Max Houkes and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri will square off in the qualifications of the Verona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on GRANDSTAND. 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 Max Houkes who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Houkes is the pick to win this match.
Max Houkes -> 1.61
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Max Houkes vs. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri
There is no head to head record between Max Houkes and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-11 | 7-3 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 273 (career-high), Houkes got to the qualifications after beating Simone Roncalli 6-4 6-75 6-2.
In the qualifications, Houkes defeated Roncalli (6-4 6-75 6-2). During the match, Houkes scored 97 points vs Roncalli’s 93. Houkes was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Regarding the service games, Houkes scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 4 double faults. Max Houkes lost the serve 4 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Houkes put 61% of his first serves in, winning 66% (41/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (17/40) on the 2nd serve. Houkes broke Roncalli 7 times after converting 78% of his break points (7/9).
Houkes has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 66% of his matches (188-96). 22-15 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Houkes has a compiled174-79 record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Dutch’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Palmanova and M25 The Hague.
The Dutch has an aggregate 23-18 win-loss record in 2023, 22-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-22 | 10-5 | 23-14 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-29 | 25-11 | 22-14 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-28 | 29-10 | 26-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-24 | 18-13 | 15-9 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 431, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Marco Speronello 6-3 5-7 6-3.
In the qualifications, Vincent defeated Speronello (6-3 5-7 6-3). During the match Vincent scored 87 points vs Speronello’s 82. Samuel was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Vincent made 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Vincent put 65% of his first serves in, winning 77% (40/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Speronello 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Samuel’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh,M25 Cattolica and M25 Padova.
The Italian has an aggregate 30-20 win-loss record in 2023, 15-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Houkes | Vincent |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 30 |
| Pts | 97-93 | 87-82 |
| Total Points | 190 | 169 |
| Winners | 41 | 40 |
| %Winners | 42% | 46% |
Both Houkes and Vincent played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Max Houkes dropped 1 set, while Samuel Vincent Ruggeri surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Houkes and Vincent have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Houkes played 1 game more than Vincent. Max scored 41 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Vincent managed to score 40 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Houkes | Vincent |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 62/102 | 52/80 |
| %1st in | 61% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 41/62 | 40/52 |
| %1st pts | 66% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 17/40 | 14/28 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 50% |
Houkes recorded 1 ace . Vincent also blasted 3 aces . Houkes won 66% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Vincent won 77% of the points on 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 | Houkes | Vincent |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 4 |
| Converted | 7/9 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 78% | 44% |
| Conceded | 10 | 2 |
| Saved | 6 | 0 |
| % Saved | 60% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 2 |
Max broke his opponent 7 times with a 78% conversion rate. The Dutch surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Samuel broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Samuel conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Houkes | |||
| Q1 Roncalli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-75 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 97-93 | 97-93 | |
| Total points | 190 | 190 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 62/102 | 62/102 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 41/62 | 41/62 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/40 | 17/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/9 | 7/9 | |
| Converted % | 78% | 78% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Vincent | |||
| Q1 Speronello |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 5-7 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 87-82 | 87-82 | |
| Total points | 169 | 169 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 52/80 | 52/80 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 40/52 | 40/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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