Valentin Royer and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri will face off in the 1st round of the Como Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.5
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri
This will be the 3rd time that Valentin Royer and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Royer and Vincent (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Vincent won 6-7(2) 6-1 7-5 in the final in M25 Ulcinj back in 2022.
Valentin Royer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-13 | 2-1 | 19-6 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-15 | 4-4 | 4-3 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 335, Royer got to the 1st round after defeating Henrique Rocha 6-4 6-2 and Giovanni Fonio 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Valentin had a good straight sets win against Fonio (6-4 6-4). During the match, Royer scored 67 points vs Fonio’s 56. Royer was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Royer fired 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Valentin Royer was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (29/34) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Valentin broke Fonio twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Valentin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Royer has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 64% of his matches (139-79). 18-8 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Royer has an aggregate68-35 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
Valentin’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio and M15 Rabat.
The French player has a compiled 30-13 win-loss record in 2023, 18-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Como Challenger
Valentin has never competed in this tournament before.
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-18 | 10-5 | 16-10 | 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. 385, Vincent reached the 1st round after beating Kyrian Jacquet 6-3 6-1 and Alexander Weis 6-2 7-63.
In the qualifications, Samuel had a good straight sets win against Jacquet (6-3 6-1). During the match Vincent scored 69 points vs Jacquet’s 47. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Vincent bagged 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Samuel Vincent Ruggeri was extremely effective on serve to win 86% (19/22) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Samuel broke Jacquet 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Vincent’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh,M25 Cattolica and M25 Padova.
Samuel has an overall 34-23 win-loss record in 2023, 19-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Como 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 | Royer | Vincent |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 37 |
| Pts | 143-117 | 148-117 |
| Total Points | 260 | 265 |
| Winners | 58 | 53 |
| %Winners | 41% | 36% |
Both Royer and Vincent played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Royer and Vincent have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Royer played 1 game more than Vincent. Royer scored 58 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Vincent made 53 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Royer | Vincent |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 77/135 | 73/128 |
| %1st in | 57% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 58/77 | 53/73 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 36/58 | 30/55 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 55% |
Royer fired 9 aces (4.5 per match). Vincent blasted 8 aces (4 per match). Royer won 75% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Vincent won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Royer | Vincent |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 8 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 8/20 |
| % Converted | 71% | 40% |
| Conceded | 14 | 13 |
| Saved | 14 | 11 |
| % Saved | 100% | 85% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Royer broke his opponents 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The French player pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 14 break points. The Italian broke his opponents 8 times with a 40% conversion rate. Samuel conceded his serve twice and he saved 85% of the break points that he conceded.
| Royer | ||||
| Q1 Rocha |
Q3 Fonio |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 20 | 38 | |
| pts | 76-61 | 67-56 | 143-117 | |
| Total points | 137 | 123 | 260 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 43% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 2 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 43/74 | 34/61 | 77/135 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 56% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 29/34 | 58/77 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 85% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/31 | 17/27 | 36/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 63% | 62% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 2/3 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 67% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 4 | 14 | |
| Saved | 10/10 | 4/4 | 14 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vincent | ||||
| Q1 Jacquet |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | |||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | ||
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | ||
| pts | 69-47 | 69-47 | ||
| Total points | 116 | 116 | ||
| Winners | 19 | 19 | ||
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | ||
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | ||
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | ||
| 1st in | 22/46 | 22/46 | ||
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | ||
| 1st pts | 19/22 | 19/22 | ||
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | ||
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | ||
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | ||
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | ||
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | ||
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | ||
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | ||
| Saved % | 75% | 38% | ||
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | ||
Head 2 Head
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