Pavle Marinkov and Matteo Gigante will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Canberra Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Matteo Gigante who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Gigante is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Gigante -> 1.161
Pavle Marinkov -> 4.8
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Prediction and head to head Pavle Marinkov vs. Matteo Gigante
There is no head to head record between Pavle Marinkov and Matteo Gigante since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Pavle Marinkov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-11 | 4-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-11 | 11-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 7-2 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Australian got to the 2nd round after beating Luca Nardi 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Pavle had a good straight sets win against Nardi (6-4 6-1). During the match, Marinkov scored 70 points vs Nardi’s 48. Pavle was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Marinkov scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Pavle Marinkov conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 53% of his first serves in, win 69% (18/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 83% (19/23) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Nardi 3 times after converting 21% of his break points (3/14).
Marinkov has a solid win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 63% of his matches (22-13). 1-0 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Marinkov has an overall19-9 match record in the last 3 years on hard.
Pavle has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Canberra Challenger
Marinkov has never competed in this tournament before.
Matteo Gigante
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-12 | 18-3 | 9-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 10-5 | 19-18 | 1-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 9-1 | 27-15 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-15 | 2-2 | 16-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-9 | 1-1 | 2-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 181, the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Edward Winter 6-4 6-4, Matthew Dellavedova 6-1 6-2 and Emilio Nava 7-64 4-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Italian defeated Nava (7-64 4-6 6-3). During the match Gigante scored 105 points vs Nava’s 91. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 55 winners.
Talking about serving, Gigante struck 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Matteo Gigante lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Gigante put 69% of his first serves in, winning 85% (55/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (12/29) on the 2nd serve. Gigante broke Nava twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Gigante has an overall 3-0 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Marinkov | Gigante |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 67 |
| Pts | 70-48 | 239-183 |
| Total Points | 118 | 422 |
| Winners | 18 | 112 |
| %Winners | 26% | 47% |
Marinkov played 1 match while Gigante competed in 3 matches. Gigante started his run from the qualifications while Marinkov had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Matteo Gigante dropped 1 set while Pavle Marinkov hasn’t conceded a set so far. Marinkov has played 5 set(s) less than Gigante (2 vs 7). Therefore, Marinkov played 50 games less than Gigante. Pavle scored 18 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian recorded 112 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Marinkov | Gigante |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 20 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 6.7 |
| 1st in | 26/49 | 139/199 |
| %1st in | 53% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 18/26 | 112/139 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 19/23 | 32/60 |
| %2nd pts | 83% | 53% |
Marinkov managed to score 1 ace . Gigante also made 20 aces (6.7 per match). Marinkov won 69% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 83% of the points. On the other side, Gigante won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Marinkov | Gigante |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 9 |
| Converted | 3/14 | 9/18 |
| % Converted | 21% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 13 |
| Saved | 0 | 11 |
| % Saved | 0% | 85% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 21% conversion rate. Marinkov extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Gigante broke his opponents 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. Gigante conceded his serve twice and he saved 85% of the break points that he conceded.
| Marinkov | |||
| R1 Nardi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 70-48 | 70-48 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/49 | 26/49 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 18/26 | 18/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/23 | 19/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 83% | 83% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/14 | 3/14 | |
| Converted % | 21% | 21% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Gigante | |||||
| Q1 Winter |
Q3 Dellavedova |
R1 Nava |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-1 6-2 | 7-64 4-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 15 | 32 | 67 | |
| pts | 67-49 | 67-43 | 105-91 | 239-183 | |
| Total points | 116 | 110 | 196 | 422 | |
| Winners | 32 | 25 | 55 | 112 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 37% | 52% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 9 | 5 | 6 | 20 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 39/53 | 35/52 | 65/94 | 139/199 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 67% | 69% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 25/35 | 55/65 | 112/139 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 71% | 85% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/14 | 9/17 | 12/29 | 32/60 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 53% | 41% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 5/8 | 2/4 | 9/18 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 63% | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 6/6 | 4/6 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 67% | 267% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWLWLWL Tennis Scores in Canberra Challenger
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Alex MolcanMolcan (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (7-67 6-3) – See score progression
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Emilio NavaNava (7-64 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-74 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Casey HooleHoole (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Sumit NagalNagal (6-71 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Alexandre MullerMuller (5-7 7-67 7-65) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Adam WaltonWalton (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Pavle MarinkovMarinkov – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Andrew Harris/Matthew Christopher RomiosHarris/Matthew Christopher Romios – Anirudh Chandrasekar/N. Vijay Sundar PrashanthChandrasekar/N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (4-6 6-4 10-8) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Filip MisolicMisolic (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
