Nicholas David Ionel and Hady Habib will face off in the 1st round of the Genova Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CAMPO 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicholas David Ionel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicholas David Ionel is the pick to win this match.
Nicholas David Ionel -> 1.58
Hady Habib -> 2.27
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Prediction and head to head Nicholas David Ionel vs. Hady Habib
There is no head to head record between Nicholas David Ionel and Hady Habib since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Nicholas David Ionel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-20 | 0-2 | 31-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-38 | 7-7 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-33 | 17-9 | 48-20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-33 | 14-4 | 33-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 16-8 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 224, Nicholas will start his run in the Genova Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-7(5) 7-6(2) 6-3 to Polmans in the qualifications on the 23rd of August.
Nicholas has a composed 31-26 win-loss record in 2023, 24-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Romanian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Jakarta and Larnaca.
Talking about his overall career, Nicholas has an overall 194-118 record. He has a positive 139-83 record on clay.
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Nicholas has never competed in this tournament before.
Hady Habib
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-21 | 10-8 | 18-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 58-27 | 38-11 | 17-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-25 | 21-14 | 9-7 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-13 | 31-10 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-4 | 2-2 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 421, Hady got to the 1st round after beating Guglielmo Verdese 6-4 6-2 and Francesco Forti 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Lebanese had a good straight sets win against Forti (6-2 6-4). During the match Habib scored 60 points vs Forti’s 44. Habib was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Habib recorded 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Hady Habib was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (24/29) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Lebanese broke Forti 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Habib started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
The Lebanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.
Hady has an overall 39-20 win-loss record in 2023, 15-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – Andrea PicchionePicchione (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hady HabibHabib – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin VacherotVacherot – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Francesco PassaroPassaro (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Federico IannacconeIannaccone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Lorenzo RottoliRottoli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
