Luca Nardi and Eric Vanshelboim will face off in the 1st round of the Chennai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 2 sets.
Luca Nardi -> 1.26
Eric Vanshelboim -> 3.6
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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Eric Vanshelboim
There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Eric Vanshelboim since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Luca Nardi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-30 | 14-13 | 8-9 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-27 | 14-14 | 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 |
Ranked no. 114 (career-high), Nardi will start his run in the Chennai Challenger after he played his last match in Montpellier where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Rincon in the qualifications on the 28th of January.
The Italian has an aggregate 1-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Luca has an overall 122-96 record. He has a positive 36-19 record on hard.
Previously in the Chennai Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Eric Vanshelboim
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48-27 | 24-12 | 24-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-33 | 11-8 | 28-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-25 | 6-2 | 50-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-24 | 4-5 | 39-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-20 | 12-4 | 26-13 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 368 (career-high), Vanshelboim got to the 1st round after beating Ray Ho 6-3 6-3 and Evgeny Karlovskiy 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Eric had a good straight sets win against Karlovskiy (6-2 6-4). During the match Vanshelboim scored 60 points vs Karlovskiy’s 42. Vanshelboim was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Vanshelboim scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Eric Vanshelboim was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (24/34) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Eric broke Karlovskiy 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Vanshelboim started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
The Ukrainian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Bhopal and M25 Chennai.
Vanshelboim has an overall 8-3 win-loss record in 2024, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chennai Challenger
Eric has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Chennai Challenger
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dan AddedAdded – Akira SantillanSantillan (2-6 6-4 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominik PalanPalan – Arthur WeberWeber (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev – Sumit NagalNagal (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dan AddedAdded – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexey ZakharovZakharov – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (0-0) – H2H and prediction