Sumit Nagal and Nikoloz Basilashvili will play each other in the 1st round of the Heilbronn Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 7:00 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 Sumit Nagal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sumit Nagal is the pick to win this match.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.77
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Sumit Nagal vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili
This will be the 2nd time that Sumit Nagal and Nikoloz Basilashvili fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Basilashvili (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Basilashvili won 4-6 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Qatar F5.
Sumit Nagal
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 31-23 | 15-12 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 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, Nagal will start his run in the Heilbronn Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-2 6-0 7-6(5) to Khachanov in the 1st round on the 27th of May.
Sumit has an overall 19-13 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Chennai Challenger where he beat Luca Nardi in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Nagal has an overall 317-206 record. He has a positive 213-126 record on clay.
Previously in the Heilbronn Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Nikoloz Basilashvili
25 - 16win/loss
328
16
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 41-26 | 5-6 | 27-15 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 4-19 | 1-8 | 0-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 16-31 | 3-11 | 5-9 | 4-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
2021 | 35-27 | 18-11 | 8-8 | 3-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 4-14 | 4-6 | 0-4 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 512, Basilashvili got to the 1st round after beating Christian Harrison 6-3 5-7 6-4 and Moez Echargui 6-3 2-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Nikoloz defeated Echargui (6-3 2-6 6-2). During the match Basilashvili scored 87 points vs Echargui’s 76. The Georgean was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Basilashvili scored 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Nikoloz Basilashvili lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Basilashvili put 60% of his first serves in, winning 69% (34/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the 2nd serve. Basilashvili broke Echargui 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Georgean started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Basilashvili’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Murcia Challenger.
Nikoloz has a composed 25-16 win-loss record in 2024, 14-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Heilbronn Challenger
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-3 6-73 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander RitschardAlexander – Albert Ramos-VinolasAlbert (6-4 7-6(2)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Peter HellerHeller – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MasurMasur – Maximilian MartererMarterer (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Sumit NagalNagal – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – August HolmgrenHolmgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri SquireSquire – (0-0) – H2H and prediction