Matteo Arnaldi and Sumit Nagal will square off in the 1st round of the ATP1000 Master in Monte-Carlo for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT DES PRINCES. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Arnaldi who should win in 2 sets.
Matteo Arnaldi -> 1.43
Sumit Nagal -> 2.84
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Arnaldi vs. Sumit Nagal
This will be the 2nd time that Matteo Arnaldi and Sumit Nagal fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nagal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Nagal won 6-3 7-5 in the qualifications in the Barletta Challenger back in 2019.
Matteo Arnaldi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-16 | 10-8 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-26 | 21-15 | 23-7 | 4-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-35 | 9-3 | 37-20 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-24 | 2-1 | 51-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 35 (career-high), Arnaldi will start his run in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Machac in the 4th round on the 26th of March.
Matteo has a compiled 10-8 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 197-116 record. He has a positive 115-55 record on clay.
Previously in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Sumit Nagal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-14 | 15-8 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 9-8 | 32-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-18 | 0-1 | 16-17 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-26 | 1-4 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-14 | 2-4 | 5-5 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 95 (career-high), Nagal reached the 1st round after beating Flavio Cobolli 6-2 6-3 and Facundo Diaz Acosta 7-5 2-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Indian defeated Diaz Acosta (7-5 2-6 6-2). During the match Nagal scored 85 points vs Diaz Acosta’s 83. Sumit was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Nagal wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Sumit Nagal lost the serve 5 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Nagal put 70% of his first serves in, winning 63% (37/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. Nagal broke Diaz Acosta 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sumit started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Chennai Challenger where he defeated Luca Nardi in the final 6-1 6-4.
The Indian has an aggregate 18-9 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Monte Carlo Rolex Masters
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Taylor FritzFritz (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcelo Arevalo/Mate PavicArevalo/Mate Pavic – Grigor Dimitrov/Sebastian KordaDimitrov/Sebastian Korda (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (7-62 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Borna CoricCoric – Alexander BublikBublik (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Sebastian BaezBaez (1-6 7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Borna CoricCoric – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Cameron NorrieNorrie (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Marcos GironGiron (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Jack DraperDraper (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin VacherotVacherot – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (1-1) – H2H and prediction