Stefano Napolitano and Nicolas Alvarez Varona will play each other in the 1st round of the Murcia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on PISTA 3. 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 -> 1.52
Nicolas Alvarez Varona -> 2.42
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Prediction and head to head Stefano Napolitano vs. Nicolas Alvarez Varona
There is no head to head record between Stefano Napolitano and Nicolas Alvarez Varona since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Stefano Napolitano
9 - 4win/loss
126
125
LLWWWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-7 | 9-3 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 164, Stefano will start his run in the Murcia Challenger after he played his last match in the Pune Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 7-6(5) to Ramanathan in the 1st round on the 20th of February.
The Italian has an aggregate 9-3 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Bengaluru Challenger where he defeated Seong Chan Hong in the final 4-6 6-3 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Napolitano has an overall 320-265 record. He has a positive 147-126 record on clay.
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Napolitano has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-9 | 3-2 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-34 | 3-7 | 13-19 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-26 | 11-8 | 29-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-9 | 21-6 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 715, Alvarez got to the 1st round after beating Carlos Lopez Montagud 6-4 5-7 6-4 and Raul Brancaccio 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Brancaccio (6-4 6-3). During the match Alvarez scored 66 points vs Brancaccio’s 51. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Alvarez blasted 3 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nicolas Alvarez Varona lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Alvarez put 61% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the 2nd serve. Nicolas broke Brancaccio 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alvarez started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Nicolas has a compiled 4-3 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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LLLWWWLWWL Tennis Scores in Murcia Challenger
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henrique RochaRocha – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (7-63 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Carlos TabernerTaberner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gastao EliasElias – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Calvin HemeryHemery – David Jorda SanchisJorda Sanchis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Ivan GakhovGakhov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – H2H and prediction
