Jonas Forejtek and Luca Castelnuovo will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Chennai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jonas Forejtek who should win in 2 sets.
Jonas Forejtek -> 1.173
Luca Castelnuovo -> 4.6
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Prediction and head to head Jonas Forejtek vs. Luca Castelnuovo
There is no head to head record between Jonas Forejtek and Luca Castelnuovo since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Jonas Forejtek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-17 | 5-4 | 13-10 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-21 | 0-3 | 17-10 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 32-24 | 3-2 | 14-11 | 14-9 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 35-31 | 2-2 | 13-18 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 4-2 |
| 2020 | 20-11 | 2-3 | 13-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 445, Jonas got to the qualifications after beating Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Forejtek had a good straight sets win against Vishwakarma (6-2 6-2). During the match, Forejtek scored 61 points vs Vishwakarma’s 33. Jonas was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Forejtek scored just 1 ace and he committed only 3 double faults. Jonas Forejtek was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jonas broke Vishwakarma 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Forejtek has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (145-106). 1-0 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Forejtek has a compiled12-13 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Czech’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Esch/Alzette.
Forejtek has an aggregate 9-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chennai Challenger
Jonas has never competed in this tournament before.
Luca Castelnuovo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-8 | 6-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-23 | 22-15 | 4-3 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 9-16 | 8-7 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-2 |
| 2021 | 21-30 | 9-10 | 11-18 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-13 | 2-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 644, the Swiss got to the qualifications after beating Karan Singh 6-4 7-64.
In the qualifications, Luca had a good straight sets win against Singh (6-4 7-64). During the match Castelnuovo scored 78 points vs Singh’s 70. The Swiss was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Castelnuovo recorded 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Luca Castelnuovo conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Castelnuovo put 67% of his first serves in, winning 85% (41/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Singh once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).
Luca has an overall 3-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Forejtek | Castelnuovo |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 23 |
| Pts | 61-33 | 78-70 |
| Total Points | 94 | 148 |
| Winners | 21 | 41 |
| %Winners | 34% | 53% |
Both Forejtek and Castelnuovo played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Forejtek and Castelnuovo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Forejtek played 7 games less than Castelnuovo. Forejtek scored 21 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Luca managed to score 41 winners (53%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Forejtek | Castelnuovo |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 4 |
| 1st in | 26/41 | 48/72 |
| %1st in | 63% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 41/48 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 12/15 | 11/24 |
| %2nd pts | 80% | 46% |
Forejtek scored 1 ace . Castelnuovo also bagged 4 aces . Forejtek won 81% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 80% of the points. On the other side, Castelnuovo won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Forejtek | Castelnuovo |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 1 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 1/6 |
| % Converted | 80% | 17% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Forejtek broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Jonas pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Luca broke his opponent once with a 17% conversion rate. Castelnuovo was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Forejtek | |||
| Q1 Vishwakarma | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-33 | 61-33 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 26/41 | 26/41 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/15 | 12/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 80% | 80% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Castelnuovo | |||
| Q1 Singh | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 78-70 | 78-70 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 48/72 | 48/72 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 41/48 | 41/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/24 | 11/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/6 | 1/6 | |
| Converted % | 17% | 17% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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