Luca Van Assche and Luca Nardi will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Orleans Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on CENTRAL ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Van Assche who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luca Van Assche is the pick to win this match.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.59
Luca Nardi -> 2.25
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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Luca Nardi
This will be the 2nd time that Luca Van Assche and Luca Nardi play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Van Assche (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Van Assche won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in the Quimper Challenger back in January 2023.
Luca Van Assche
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-29 | 14-14 | 8-10 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 1-7 | 15-11 | 15-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-31 | 0-1 | 40-20 | 15-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 3-2 | 8-7 | 15-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 69, Luca reached the 2nd round after beating Alex Molcan 1-6 7-62 6-3.
In the 1st round against Molcan, Luca recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 7-62 6-3). During the match, Van Assche scored 90 points vs Molcan’s 87. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Van Assche scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Luca Van Assche lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Van Assche put 58% of his first serves in, winning 56% (27/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 80% (28/35) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Molcan twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Van Assche has a winning record in the last 4 years having won 59% of his matches (116-81). 9-4 on indoor hard courts in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Van Assche has an overall40-29 win-loss record in the last 4 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Pau Challenger where he beat Ugo Humbert in the final 7-6(5) 4-6 7-6(6) and the Sanremo Challenger where he beat Juan Pablo Varillas in the final 6-1 6-3.
Luca has an overall 28-24 win-loss record in 2023, 9-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Orleans Challenger
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-22 | 13-12 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-36 | 20-10 | 8-13 | 12-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 5-2 | 11-10 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 3-3 | 26-13 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-9 | 7-2 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 140, Nardi reached the 2nd round after defeating Hugo Grenier 7-65 6-3.
In the 1st round, Nardi had a good straight sets win against Grenier (7-65 6-3). During the match Nardi scored 74 points vs Grenier’s 61. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Nardi managed to score 3 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Luca Nardi was very efficient on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Grenier 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Porto Challenger where he defeated Joao Sousa in the final 5-7 6-4 6-1.
The Italian has an aggregate 25-27 win-loss record in 2023, 3-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Van Assche | Nardi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 29 | 22 |
| Pts | 90-87 | 74-61 |
| Total Points | 177 | 135 |
| Winners | 27 | 29 |
| %Winners | 30% | 39% |
Both Van Assche and Nardi played 1 match. At the moment, Luca Van Assche lost 1 set while Luca Nardi hasn’t dropped a set so far. Van Assche has played 1 set more than Nardi (3 vs 2). Therefore, Van Assche played 7 games more than Nardi. Luca scored 27 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Nardi made 29 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Van Assche | Nardi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 48/83 | 38/58 |
| %1st in | 58% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 27/48 | 29/38 |
| %1st pts | 56% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 28/35 | 14/20 |
| %2nd pts | 80% | 70% |
Van Assche struck 1 ace . Nardi also recorded 3 aces . Van Assche won 56% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 80% of the points. On the other side, Nardi won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Van Assche | Nardi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/8 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 25% | 60% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 43% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
The French player broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Luca lost his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded. Nardi broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Nardi conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Van Assche | |||
| R1 Molcan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 7-62 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 90-87 | 90-87 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 48/83 | 48/83 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 27/48 | 27/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/35 | 28/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 80% | 80% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 2/8 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/7 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Nardi | |||
| R1 Grenier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 74-61 | 74-61 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/58 | 38/58 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 29/38 | 29/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWWLLL Tennis Scores in Orleans Challenger
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Mathias BourgueBourgue (7-67 4-6 7-65) – See score progression
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Tomas MachacMachac – Maxime CressyCressy (7-69 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur FeryFery – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-2 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Luca NardiNardi – Hugo GrenierGrenier (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Hugo GastonGaston – Dino PrizmicPrizmic (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Alex MolcanMolcan (1-6 7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Arthur FeryFery – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Tomas MachacMachac – Maxime CressyCressy (7-6(9) 6-4) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Mathias BourgueBourgue (7-6(7) 4-6 7-6(5)) – See score progression
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