Flavio Cobolli and Nicolas Moreno De Alboran will square off in the qualifications of the Delray Beach Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 12:30 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 Flavio Cobolli who should win in 3 sets.
Flavio Cobolli -> 1.51
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran -> 2.45
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Prediction and head to head Flavio Cobolli vs. Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
This will be the 2nd time that Flavio Cobolli and Nicolas Moreno De Alboran play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cobolli (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Cobolli won 7-6(10) 4-6 7-6(1) in the 1st round in the Rome Challenger back in 2023.
Flavio Cobolli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-29 | 9-13 | 15-6 | 5-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-29 | 26-13 | 10-9 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-36 | 10-6 | 43-23 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 6-4 | 24-21 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-30 | 5-4 | 39-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 71 (career-high), Flavio got to the qualifications after beating Illya Marchenko 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Flavio had a good straight sets win against Marchenko (6-4 6-2). During the match, Cobolli scored 68 points vs Marchenko’s 52. Cobolli was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cobolli blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Flavio Cobolli was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (22/25) of his 1st serve and 58% (19/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Flavio broke Marchenko 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Cobolli has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (155-115). 6-1 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cobolli has an aggregate31-18 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Italian has an overall 8-2 win-loss record in 2024, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
Flavio has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-35 | 21-12 | 27-19 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-30 | 25-16 | 10-8 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 8-2 | 28-17 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-20 | 22-11 | 22-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 154, Nicolas reached the qualifications after defeating Sho Shimabukuro 7-62 6-74 7-62.
In the qualifications, Moreno De Alboran defeated Shimabukuro (7-62 6-74 7-62). During the match Moreno De Alboran scored 125 points vs Shimabukuro’s 116. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 54 winners.
Talking about serving, Moreno De Alboran made 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Nicolas Moreno De Alboran was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (54/70) of his 1st serve and 66% (23/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Nicolas broke Shimabukuro twice after converting 18% of his break points (2/11).
Moreno De Alboran has an aggregate 7-5 win-loss record in 2024, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cobolli | Moreno De Alboran |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 39 |
| Pts | 68-52 | 125-116 |
| Total Points | 120 | 241 |
| Winners | 22 | 54 |
| %Winners | 32% | 43% |
Both Cobolli and Moreno De Alboran played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Nicolas Moreno De Alboran dropped 1 set while Flavio Cobolli hasn’t conceded a set so far. Cobolli has played 1 set(s) less than Moreno De Alboran (2 vs 3). Therefore, Cobolli played 21 games less than Moreno De Alboran. Flavio scored 22 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Nicolas scored 54 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cobolli | Moreno De Alboran |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 8 |
| 1st in | 25/58 | 70/105 |
| %1st in | 43% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 54/70 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 19/33 | 23/35 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 66% |
Cobolli blasted 5 aces . Moreno De Alboran recorded 8 aces . Cobolli won 88% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Moreno De Alboran won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 66% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cobolli | Moreno De Alboran |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 2/11 |
| % Converted | 38% | 18% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Flavio broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Cobolli pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Spaniard broke his opponent twice with a 18% conversion rate. Nicolas conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cobolli | |||
| Q1 Marchenko | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-52 | 68-52 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/58 | 25/58 | |
| % 1st in | 43% | 43% | |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 22/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/33 | 19/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Moreno De Alboran | |||
| Q1 Shimabukuro | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-74 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 39 | 39 | |
| pts | 125-116 | 125-116 | |
| Total points | 241 | 241 | |
| Winners | 54 | 54 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 70/105 | 70/105 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 54/70 | 54/70 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/35 | 23/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 66% | 66% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/11 | 2/11 | |
| Converted % | 18% | 18% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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