Salvatore Caruso and Moez Echargui will square off in the qualifications of the Braga Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Moez Echargui who should win in 3 sets.
Moez Echargui -> 1.87
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Moez Echargui
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Moez Echargui since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 8-9 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 282, Salvatore got to the qualifications after defeating Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Salvatore had a good straight sets win against Kaliyanda Poonacha (6-2 6-1). During the match, Caruso scored 59 points vs Kaliyanda Poonacha’s 32. Caruso was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Caruso scored just 1 ace during the match and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Salvatore Caruso was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (19/25) of his 1st serve and 91% (10/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Kaliyanda Poonacha 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Caruso has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (331-286). 20-24 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Caruso has an overall 187-157 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Caruso’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Manama Challenger.
The Italian has an overall 25-28 win-loss record in 2023, 20-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Braga Challenger
Salvatore has never competed in this tournament before.
Moez Echargui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-26 | 10-11 | 12-14 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-34 | 23-10 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-29 | 7-2 | 37-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-24 | 38-17 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 302, will start his run in the Braga Challenger after he played his last match in the Braga Challenger where he beat 6-1 6-2 to Jahn in the qualifications on the 24th of September.
Moez has an overall 37-26 win-loss record in 2023, 20-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Tunisian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Monastir.
In terms of his career, The Tunisian has an overall 257-188 record. He has a positive 108-100 record on clay.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 |
| Pts | 59-32 | 67-40 |
| Total Points | 91 | 107 |
| Winners | 19 | 23 |
| %Winners | 32% | 34% |
Both Caruso and Echargui played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Caruso and Echargui have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (15). Caruso scored 19 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Echargui struck 23 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 25/36 | 29/50 |
| %1st in | 69% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 10/11 | 9/21 |
| %2nd pts | 91% | 43% |
Caruso struck 1 ace . Echargui also managed to score 2 aces . Caruso won 76% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 91% of the points. On the other side, Echargui won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Caruso | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 6/10 |
| % Converted | 50% | 60% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Salvatore broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Echargui broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Moez conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Caruso | |||
| Q1 Kaliyanda | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 59-32 | 59-32 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 25/36 | 25/36 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 19/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/11 | 10/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 91% | 91% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Echargui | |||
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | |||
| Tot Set | 0 | ||
| Tot Games | 0 | ||
| pts | 0-0 | ||
| Total points | 0 | ||
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | ||
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st in | 0% | ||
| 1st pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st pts | 0% | ||
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 0% | ||
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | 0/0 | ||
| Converted % | 0% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0 | ||
| Saved % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
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