Luca Nardi and Kalin Ivanovski will play each other in the 2nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:30 am on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 2 sets.
Luca Nardi -> 1.31
Kalin Ivanovski -> 3.22
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Kalin Ivanovski
There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Kalin Ivanovski since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-27 | 13-14 | 8-5 | 9-4 | 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. 118, the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Yunseong Chung 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-2 6-4). During the match, Nardi scored 60 points vs Chung’s 44. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nardi managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Luca Nardi was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 75% (18/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Chung 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Nardi has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 57% of his matches (119-90). 19-9 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nardi has an overall34-16 record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Porto Challenger where he beat Joao Sousa in the final 5-7 6-4 6-1 and the Matsuyama Challenger where he beat Taro Daniel in the final 3-6 6-4 6-2.
Nardi has an overall 39-33 win-loss record in 2023, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.
Kalin Ivanovski
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 19-11 | 19-12 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-21 | 23-12 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-9 | 0-1 | 1-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 323, Kalin reached the 2nd round after defeating Shinji Hazawa 3-6 6-4 7-5, Yan Bai 4-6 7-5 ret. and Zizou Bergs 6-1 5-7 6-2.
In the 1st round, Ivanovski defeated Bergs (6-1 5-7 6-2). During the match Ivanovski scored 104 points vs Bergs’s 87. The Malawian was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Ivanovski scored 5 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kalin Ivanovski lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Ivanovski put 62% of his first serves in, winning 69% (43/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (20/38) on the 2nd serve. Ivanovski broke Bergs 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Ivanovski’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir,M25 Kursumlijska Banja,M25 Skopje and M25 Kramsach.
Ivanovski has a compiled 50-28 win-loss record in 2023, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nardi | Ivanovski |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 80 |
| Pts | 60-44 | 273-257 |
| Total Points | 104 | 530 |
| Winners | 25 | 124 |
| %Winners | 42% | 45% |
Nardi played 1 match while Ivanovski competed in 3 matches. Ivanovski started his run from the qualifications while Nardi had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kalin Ivanovski surrendered 3 sets while Luca Nardi hasn’t dropped a set so far. Nardi has played 7 set(s) less than Ivanovski (2 vs 9). Therefore, Nardi played 62 games less than Ivanovski. The Italian scored 25 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Ivanovski fired 124 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nardi | Ivanovski |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 3 |
| 1st in | 35/59 | 177/280 |
| %1st in | 59% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 124/177 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 18/24 | 53/103 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 51% |
Nardi bagged 2 aces . Ivanovski managed to score 9 aces (3 per match). Nardi won 71% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Ivanovski won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nardi | Ivanovski |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 10 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 10/22 |
| % Converted | 75% | 45% |
| Conceded | 5 | 20 |
| Saved | 5 | 13 |
| % Saved | 100% | 65% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 7 |
The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Luca extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. Ivanovski broke his opponents 10 times with a 45% conversion rate. Kalin conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 65% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nardi | |||
| R1 Chung | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-44 | 60-44 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/59 | 35/59 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/24 | 18/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ivanovski | |||||
| Q1 Hazawa | Q3 Bai | R1 Bergs | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-4 7-5 | 4-6 7-5 ret. | 6-1 5-7 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 22 | 27 | 80 | |
| pts | 95-99 | 74-71 | 104-87 | 273-257 | |
| Total points | 194 | 145 | 191 | 530 | |
| Winners | 44 | 37 | 43 | 124 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 50% | 41% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 68/103 | 47/77 | 62/100 | 177/280 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 61% | 62% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 44/68 | 37/47 | 43/62 | 124/177 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 79% | 69% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/35 | 15/30 | 20/38 | 53/103 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 50% | 53% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 1/4 | 5/10 | 10/22 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 25% | 50% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 4 | 9 | 20 | |
| Saved | 3/7 | 3/4 | 7/9 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 75% | 78% | 196% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
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