Colin Sinclair and Luca Castelnuovo will square off in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Colin Sinclair who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Colin Sinclair is the pick to win this match.
Colin Sinclair -> 1.727
Luca Castelnuovo -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Colin Sinclair vs. Luca Castelnuovo
This will be the 2nd time that Colin Sinclair and Luca Castelnuovo play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sinclair (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sinclair won 5-3 ret. in the 1st round in M15 Monastir back in 2020.
Colin Sinclair
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 22-17 | 18-15 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 39-32 | 31-25 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 31-22 | 22-14 | 7-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 39-21 | 22-8 | 14-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-12 | 3-7 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 347 (career-high), Colin will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shanghai Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Christopher in the qualifications on the 4th of September.
Sinclair has an overall 33-23 win-loss record in 2023, 25-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Colin’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Rancho Santa Fe.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 208-133 record. He has a positive 115-73 record on hard.
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Sinclair has never competed in this tournament before.
Luca Castelnuovo
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 22-20 | 22-19 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 36-23 | 22-15 | 4-3 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
2022 | 9-16 | 8-7 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-2 |
2021 | 21-30 | 9-10 | 11-18 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 4-13 | 2-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 670, Castelnuovo reached the 1st round after beating Zhenxiong Dong 6-2 7-5 and Ray Ho 6-73 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications against Ho, Luca recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 6-3 6-2). During the match Castelnuovo scored 99 points vs Ho’s 82. The Swiss was very aggressive to blast 53 winners.
About the serving games, Castelnuovo made 16 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Luca Castelnuovo was very effective on serve to win 80% (53/66) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Swiss broke Ho 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Castelnuovo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Luca’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Shanghai.
Luca has an overall 31-17 win-loss record in 2023, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Antoine BellierBellier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luke SavilleSaville – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – Omar JasikaJasika (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Arjun KadheKadhe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Nick ChappellChappell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikalai HaliakHaliak – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tao MuMu – Aoran WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Bang Shuo YinShuo Yin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qian SunSun – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction