Salvatore Caruso and Stefano Napolitano will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Verona Challenger for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefano Napolitano who should win in 2 sets.
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.33
Salvatore Caruso -> 3.125
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Stefano Napolitano
This will be the 7th time that Salvatore Caruso and Stefano Napolitano face off. The head to head is 4-2 for Napolitano (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Napolitano won 3-6 6-3 7-6(3) in the 1st round in the Forli 6 Challenger back in 2022.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-10 | 8-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 274, Salvatore will start his run in the Verona Challenger after he played his last match in the Trieste Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-0 to Gaston in the 1st round on the 18th of July.
The Italian has an aggregate 23-23 win-loss record in 2023, 18-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Caruso’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Manama Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 372-309 record. He has a positive 223-171 record on clay.
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-7 | 9-3 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 312, the Italian reached the 1st round after defeating Federico Iannaccone 3-6 6-1 6-2 and Gonzalo Villanueva 6-75 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications against Villanueva, Napolitano recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-4 6-4). During the match Napolitano scored 117 points vs Villanueva’s 100. Napolitano was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about serving, Napolitano scored 10 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Stefano Napolitano lost the serve 4 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Napolitano put 54% of his first serves in, winning 75% (42/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (23/48) on the 2nd serve. Napolitano broke Villanueva 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Stefano started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Stefano’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Frascati and M25 Biella.
Napolitano has a composed 37-14 win-loss record in 2023, 31-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Verona Challenger
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – Marc PolmansPolmans (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Edoardo LavagnoLavagno – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (2-6 7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Nick HardtHardt (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- David GoffinGoffin – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Jiri VeselyVesely (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Hugo GastonGaston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Edoardo LavagnoLavagno – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Titouan DroguetDroguet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-1) – H2H and prediction