Stefano Napolitano and Moez Echargui will face off in the quarter of the Bengaluru Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefano Napolitano who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefano Napolitano is the pick to win this match.
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.48
Moez Echargui -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Stefano Napolitano vs. Moez Echargui
This will be the 3rd time that Stefano Napolitano and Moez Echargui clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Napolitano (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Napolitano won 7-5 6-2 in the qualifications in the Barletta Challenger back in 2023.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-17 | 10-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-23 | 9-6 | 38-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 1-1 | 20-15 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-17 | 1-2 | 1-9 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 204, Stefano reached the quarter after beating Dane Sweeny 6-3 6-3 and Vasek Pospisil 6-4 4-6 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Italian defeated Pospisil (6-4 4-6 6-4). During the match, Napolitano scored 100 points vs Pospisil’s 93. Napolitano was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Napolitano scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Stefano Napolitano was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (35/49) of his 1st serve and 66% (23/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Stefano broke Pospisil 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Stefano has conceded 1 set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Napolitano has good match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (260-215). 6-2 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Napolitano has an overall 71-53 match record in the last years on hard.
Napolitano has a compiled 6-2 win-loss record in 2024, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bengaluru Challenger
Stefano has never competed in this tournament before.
Moez Echargui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-26 | 10-11 | 12-14 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-34 | 23-10 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-29 | 7-2 | 37-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-24 | 38-17 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 287, the Tunisian got to the quarter after defeating Duje Ajdukovic 6-2 6-4 and Enrico Dalla Valle 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Echargui had a good straight sets win against Dalla Valle (6-2 6-2). During the match Echargui scored 52 points vs Dalla Valle’s 38. Echargui was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Echargui struck 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Moez Echargui conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Echargui put 47% of his first serves in, winning 88% (21/24) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. The Tunisian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Dalla Valle 4 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Moez hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Echargui has a compiled 5-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Napolitano | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 48 | 34 |
| Pts | 163-139 | 125-97 |
| Total Points | 302 | 222 |
| Winners | 58 | 52 |
| %Winners | 36% | 42% |
Both Napolitano and Echargui played 2 matches. At the moment, Stefano Napolitano conceded 1 set while Moez Echargui hasn’t conceded a set so far. Napolitano has played 1 set more than Echargui (5 vs 4). Therefore, Napolitano played 14 games more than Echargui. Stefano scored 58 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Tunisian blasted 52 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Napolitano | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 78/131 | 67/127 |
| %1st in | 60% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 58/78 | 52/67 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 34/53 | 28/60 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 47% |
Napolitano managed to score 2 aces (1 per match). Echargui recorded 10 aces (5 per match). Napolitano won 74% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Echargui won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Napolitano | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 8 |
| Converted | 7/20 | 8/10 |
| % Converted | 35% | 80% |
| Conceded | 4 | 9 |
| Saved | 1 | 8 |
| % Saved | 25% | 89% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
The Italian broke his opponents 7 times with a 35% conversion rate. The Italian lost his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. Echargui broke his opponents 8 times with a 80% conversion rate. Echargui conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded.
| Napolitano | ||||
| R1 Sweeny |
R2 Pospisil |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | 6-4 4-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 30 | 48 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 100-93 | 163-139 | |
| Total points | 109 | 193 | 302 | |
| Winners | 23 | 35 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 35% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 29/47 | 49/84 | 78/131 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 58% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 35/49 | 58/78 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 71% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 23/35 | 34/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 66% | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 3/13 | 7/20 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 23% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 33% | 17% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Echargui | ||||
| R1 Ajdukovic |
R2 Dalla Valle |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 | 34 | |
| pts | 73-59 | 52-38 | 125-97 | |
| Total points | 132 | 90 | 222 | |
| Winners | 31 | 21 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 40% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 43/76 | 24/51 | 67/127 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 47% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 31/43 | 21/24 | 52/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 88% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/33 | 13/27 | 28/60 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 48% | 47% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/4 | 8/10 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 100% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 1/1 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 100% | 94% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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