Stefano Napolitano and Luke Saville will face off in the qualifications of the Zhuhai Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefano Napolitano is the pick to win this match.
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.5
Luke Saville -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Stefano Napolitano vs. Luke Saville
There is no head to head record between Stefano Napolitano and Luke Saville since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-9 | 9-3 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 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. 257, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Omni Kumar 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Kumar (6-2 6-0). During the match, Napolitano scored 54 points vs Kumar’s 27. Stefano was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Napolitano made 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Stefano Napolitano was quite efficient on serve to win 90% (18/20) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Napolitano broke Kumar 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Napolitano has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (281-232). 7-4 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Napolitano has an overall 75-54 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Napolitano’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Frascati and M25 Biella.
Stefano has an overall 45-18 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Zhuhai
Stefano has never competed in this tournament before.
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-14 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 313, the Australian reached the qualifications after beating Stefanos Sakellaridis 7-5 6-76 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Australian defeated Sakellaridis (7-5 6-76 6-4). During the match Saville scored 123 points vs Sakellaridis’s 110. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 64 winners.
About the serving games, Saville struck 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Luke Saville lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Saville put 73% of his first serves in, winning 74% (64/87) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (14/32) on the 2nd serve. Luke broke Sakellaridis 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Luke’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill,M25 Roehampton and M15 Caloundra.
Saville has an overall 39-19 win-loss record in 2023, 25-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Napolitano | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 35 |
| Pts | 54-27 | 123-110 |
| Total Points | 81 | 233 |
| Winners | 18 | 64 |
| %Winners | 33% | 52% |
Both Napolitano and Saville played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Luke Saville conceded 1 set while Stefano Napolitano hasn’t dropped a set so far. Napolitano has played 1 set(s) less than Saville (2 vs 3). Therefore, Napolitano played 21 games less than Saville. Stefano scored 18 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Saville blasted 64 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Napolitano | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 6 |
| 1st in | 20/36 | 87/119 |
| %1st in | 56% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 64/87 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 14/32 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 44% |
Napolitano scored 9 aces . Saville made 6 aces . Napolitano won 90% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Napolitano | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 63% | 33% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Napolitano broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Napolitano had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Luke broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Napolitano | |||
| Q1 Kumar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-27 | 54-27 | |
| Total points | 81 | 81 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 20/36 | 20/36 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 18/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Saville | |||
| Q1 Sakellaridis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-76 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 123-110 | 123-110 | |
| Total points | 233 | 233 | |
| Winners | 64 | 64 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 87/119 | 87/119 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 64/87 | 64/87 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/32 | 14/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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