Francisco Comesana and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Verona Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Comesana who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francisco Comesana is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Comesana -> 1.34
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri -> 3.06

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Prediction and head to head Francisco Comesana vs. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri

There is no head to head record between Francisco Comesana and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Francisco Comesana

Ranked no. 238, Francisco got to the 2^nd round after beating Marc Polmans 7-6⁵ 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Comesana had a good straight sets win against Polmans (7-6⁵ 6-4). During the match, Comesana scored 81 points vs Polmans’s 69. The Argentine was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Comesana scored 10 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Francisco Comesana was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Francisco broke Polmans twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Comesana has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 65% of his matches (201-108). 34-13 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Comesana has a compiled192-97 record in the last 7 years on clay.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Vicenza Challenger where he beat Pablo Llamas Ruiz in the final 3-6 6-2 6-2.

Comesana has a composed 34-14 win-loss record in 2023, 34-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Verona Challenger

Comesana has never competed in this tournament before.

Samuel Vincent Ruggeri

Ranked no. 403, the Italian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Marco Speronello 6-3 5-7 6-3, Max Houkes 2-6 6-4 6-3 and Carlos Taberner 1-6 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Taberner, Vincent recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Vincent scored 71 points vs Taberner’s 69. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Vincent struck 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Vincent put 53% of his first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Taberner 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Samuel’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh,M25 Cattolica and M25 Padova.

The Italian has a composed 32-20 win-loss record in 2023, 17-9 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	Comesana	Vincent
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	9
Tot Games	23	81
Pts	81-69	242-236
Total Points	150	478
Winners	33	111
%Winners	41%	46%

Comesana played 1 match while Vincent competed in 3 matches. Vincent started his run from the qualifications while Comesana had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Samuel Vincent Ruggeri lost 3 sets while Francisco Comesana hasn’t lost a set so far. Comesana has played 7 set(s) less than Vincent (2 vs 9). Therefore, Comesana played 58 games less than Vincent. Comesana scored 33 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Samuel made 111 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Comesana	Vincent
Aces	10	9
Avg per match	10	3
1st in	45/66	148/245
%1st in	68%	60%
1st pts	33/45	111/148
%1st pts	73%	75%
2nd pts	15/21	44/97
%2nd pts	71%	45%

Comesana managed to score 10 aces . Vincent recorded 9 aces (3 per match). Comesana won 73% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Vincent won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Comesana	Vincent
Won	2	11
Converted	2/10	11/24
% Converted	20%	46%
Conceded	1	13
Saved	0	5
% Saved	0%	38%
Times Broken	1	8

Comesana broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Comesana surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponents 11 times with a 46% conversion rate. Samuel conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 38% of the break points that he conceded.

Comesana
	R1 Polmans	Total
Score	7-65 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	81-69	81-69
Total points	150	150
Winners	33	33
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	45/66	45/66
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	33/45	33/45
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	15/21	15/21
% 2nd pts	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/10	2/10
Converted %	20%	20%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Vincent
	Q1 Speronello	Q3 Houkes	R1 Taberner	Total
Score	6-3 5-7 6-3	2-6 6-4 6-3	1-6 6-1 6-4
Tot Set	3	3	3	9
Tot Games	30	27	24	81
pts	87-82	84-85	71-69	242-236
Total points	169	169	140	478
Winners	40	40	31	111
%Winners	46%	48%	44%	46%
SERVE
Aces	3	4	2	9
Double Faults	2	5	4	11
1st in	52/80	57/91	39/74	148/245
% 1st in	65%	63%	53%	60%
1st pts	40/52	40/57	31/39	111/148
% 1st pts	77%	70%	79%	75%
2nd pts	14/28	13/34	17/35	44/97
% 2nd pts	50%	38%	49%	45%
Breaks
Won	4	4	3	11
Converted	4/9	4/10	3/5	11/24
Converted %	44%	40%	60%	46%
Conceded	2	7	4	13
Saved	0/2	3/7	2/4	5
Saved %	0%	43%	50%	93%
Times Broken	2	4	2	8

Tennis Scores in Verona Challenger

• Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Roman Andres BurruchagaAndres Burruchaga (7-5 4-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Federico GaioGaio – Sumit NagalNagal (6-7³ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Vit KoprivaKopriva – Valentin RoyerRoyer (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Max HoukesHoukes (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri – Carlos TabernerTaberner (1-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Mathias BourgueBourgue – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (5-7 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-7² 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Hugo GastonGaston (3-6 6-2 5-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Francisco ComesanaComesana – Marc PolmansPolmans (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (2-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Edoardo LavagnoLavagno – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Luciano DarderiDarderi – Nick HardtHardt (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Max HoukesHoukes (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-5 ret.) – See score progression

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