Sumit Nagal and Alessandro Giannessi will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Perugia Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sumit Nagal who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sumit Nagal is the pick to win this match.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.33
Alessandro Giannessi -> 3.14

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Prediction and head to head Sumit Nagal vs. Alessandro Giannessi

This will be the 3rd time that Sumit Nagal and Alessandro Giannessi fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Giannessi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they played each other, Giannessi won 7-5 3-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Poznan Challenger back in 2019.

Sumit Nagal

Sumit Nagal

25 - 13win/loss

Hard
15-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
10-5
Rank
73
High
71
LWWWWWWWWW
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. 77 (career-high), Nagal reached the 2nd round after beating Nerman Fatic 7-61 6-2.

In the 1st round, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Fatic (7-61 6-2). During the match, Nagal scored 82 points vs Fatic’s 59. Nagal was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Nagal was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Sumit Nagal was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (35/46) of his 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nagal broke Fatic 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Nagal has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (315-202). 10-5 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nagal has an aggregate 219-126 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Chennai Challenger where he beat Luca Nardi in the final 6-1 6-4 and the Heilbronn Challenger where he defeated Alexander Ritschard in the final 6-1 6-7(5) 6-3.

Sumit has a composed 25-13 win-loss record in 2024, 10-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Perugia Challenger

The Indian has never competed in this tournament before.

Perugia Challenger
Nagal's Record

Alessandro Giannessi

Alessandro Giannessi

11 - 17win/loss

Hard
0-5
I Hard
0-0
Clay
11-12
Rank
384
High
84
LWLLWWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 12-20 0-5 12-15 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 36-33 3-5 33-27 0-0 0-1 0-0
2022 20-30 2-1 18-28 0-0 0-1 0-0
2021 31-27 0-2 31-20 0-4 0-1 0-0
2020 10-14 0-1 10-12 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 369, Giannessi reached the 2nd round after defeating Pietro Genovese 6-1 6-1, Alexander Weis 4-6 7-5 6-4 and Egor Gerasimov 6-4 6-2.

In the 1st round, Alessandro had a good straight sets win against Gerasimov (6-4 6-2). During the match Giannessi scored 63 points vs Gerasimov’s 40. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

About the serving games, Giannessi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alessandro Giannessi was extremely efficient on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Giannessi broke Gerasimov 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

The Italian has an aggregate 11-17 win-loss record in 2024, 11-12 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Perugia Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2019. See his history.

Perugia Challenger
Giannessi's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

S.Nagal
A.Giannessi
1h:53
1h:53
Time on court​
!
4h:49
4h:49
1h:53
1h:53
Last match​
1h:18
1h:18
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
21
21
Games Played​
64
64
2
2
Set played​​
7
7
82
82
Total points​
221
221
82
82
Avg point​
73.7
73.7
35
35
Winners
90
90
35
35
Avg Winners​
30
30
43%
43%
Ratio winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
0
0
Aces
6
6
0
0
Avg Aces
2
2
0
0
Double Faults
7
7
0
0
Avg Double Faults
2.3
2.3
35/46
35/46
1st won total​
90/116
90/116
!
76%
76%
1st won %
!
78%
78%
8/11
8/11
2nd won total​
41/68
41/68
!
73%
73%
2nd won %
60%
60%
-- Break Points --
3/9
3/9
BP won
12/26
12/26
3/9
3/9
Avg BP won
4/8.7
4/8.7
33%
33%
Won
46%
46%
1
1
Conceded
11
11
1
1
Avg Conceded
3.7
3.7
1
1
Broken
3
3
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
0
0
Saved
8
8

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Nagal Giannessi
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 7
Tot Games 21 64
Pts 82-59 221-166
Total Points 141 387
Winners 35 90
%Winners 43% 41%

Nagal played 1 match while Giannessi competed in 3 matches. Giannessi started his run from the qualifications while Nagal had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Alessandro Giannessi dropped 1 set while Sumit Nagal hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Nagal has played 5 set(s) less than Giannessi (2 vs 7). Therefore, Nagal played 43 games less than Giannessi. Sumit scored 35 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Giannessi recorded 90 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Nagal Giannessi
Aces 0 6
Avg per match 0 2
1st in 46/57 116/184
%1st in 81% 63%
1st pts 35/46 90/116
%1st pts 76% 78%
2nd pts 8/11 41/68
%2nd pts 73% 60%

Nagal didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Giannessi made 6 aces (2 per match). Nagal won 76% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Giannessi won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Nagal Giannessi
Won 3 12
Converted 3/9 12/26
% Converted 33% 46%
Conceded 1 11
Saved 0 8
% Saved 0% 73%
Times Broken 1 3

Sumit broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Sumit lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponents 12 times with a 46% conversion rate. Alessandro conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.

Nagal
R1
Fatic
Total
Score 7-61 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 21
pts 82-59 82-59
Total points 141 141
Winners 35 35
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 46/57 46/57
% 1st in 81% 81%
1st pts 35/46 35/46
% 1st pts 76% 76%
2nd pts 8/11 8/11
% 2nd pts 73% 73%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/9 3/9
Converted % 33% 33%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Giannessi
Q1
Genovese
Q3
Weis
R1
Gerasimov
Total
Score 6-1 6-1 4-6 7-5 6-4 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 3 2 7
Tot Games 14 32 18 64
pts 56-24 102-102 63-40 221-166
Total points 80 204 103 387
Winners 15 54 21 90
%Winners 27% 53% 33% 41%
SERVE
Aces 4 1 1 6
Double Faults 0 5 2 7
1st in 19/33 74/108 23/43 116/184
% 1st in 58% 69% 53% 63%
1st pts 15/19 54/74 21/23 90/116
% 1st pts 79% 73% 91% 78%
2nd pts 13/14 14/34 14/20 41/68
% 2nd pts 93% 41% 70% 60%
Breaks
Won 5 3 4 12
Converted 5/8 3/8 4/10 12/26
Converted % 63% 38% 40% 46%
Conceded 0 10 1 11
Saved 0/0 8/10 0/1 8
Saved % 80% 0% 80%
Times Broken 0 2 1 3

Tennis Scores in Perugia Challenger

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