Stefano Napolitano and Benjamin Bonzi will square off in the 2nd round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:30 am on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Benjamin Bonzi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Benjamin Bonzi is the pick to win this match.
Benjamin Bonzi -> 1.78
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Stefano Napolitano vs. Benjamin Bonzi
This will be the 2nd time that Stefano Napolitano and Benjamin Bonzi play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bonzi (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played, Bonzi won 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in Turkey F33.
Stefano Napolitano
23 - 11win/loss
167
121
LLLLWLLWLW | 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. 121 (career-high), Stefano reached the 2nd round after defeating Chak Lam Coleman Wong 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Napolitano had a good straight sets win against Lam Coleman Wong (6-4 6-4). During the match, Napolitano scored 58 points vs Lam Coleman Wong’s 47. Napolitano was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Napolitano scored 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Stefano Napolitano was quite efficient on serve to win 89% (32/36) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Lam Coleman Wong twice.
Napolitano has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (277-223). 3-1 on grass in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Napolitano has an aggregate 9-8 match record in the last years on grass.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Bengaluru Challenger where he beat Seong Chan Hong in the final 4-6 6-3 6-3 and the Madrid Challenger where he beat Leandro Riedi in the final 6-3 6-3.
Stefano has a compiled 23-10 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Benjamin Bonzi
15 - 20win/loss
75
42
WWWWWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 50-32 | 13-13 | 7-10 | 24-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-26 | 10-8 | 2-4 | 17-11 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 7-10 | 9-5 | 11-8 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 57-27 | 23-5 | 7-7 | 20-13 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 30-12 | 21-3 | 5-4 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 168, Bonzi reached the 2nd round after beating Jay Clarke 6-3 7-5, Patrick Kypson 6-2 7-65 and Denis Kudla 7-65 7-65.
In the 1st round, Benjamin had a good straight sets win against Kudla (7-65 7-65). During the match Bonzi scored 95 points vs Kudla’s 85. Benjamin was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Bonzi struck 18 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Benjamin Bonzi was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (42/58) of his 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Bonzi broke Kudla twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
The French player best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Split Challenger.
The French player has an aggregate 13-20 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Napolitano | Bonzi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 68 |
| Pts | 58-47 | 238-202 |
| Total Points | 105 | 440 |
| Winners | 32 | 103 |
| %Winners | 55% | 43% |
Napolitano played 1 match while Bonzi competed in 3 matches. Bonzi started his run from the qualifications while Napolitano had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Napolitano has played 4 set(s) less than Bonzi (2 vs 6). Therefore, Napolitano played 48 games less than Bonzi. The Italian scored 32 winners (55% of the total points). On the other side, Benjamin struck 103 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Napolitano | Bonzi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 28 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 9.3 |
| 1st in | 36/49 | 137/211 |
| %1st in | 73% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 103/137 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 44/74 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 59% |
Napolitano scored 8 aces . Bonzi bagged 28 aces (9.3 per match). Napolitano won 89% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Bonzi won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Napolitano | Bonzi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 8 |
| Converted | 2/2 | 8/14 |
| % Converted | 100% | 57% |
| Conceded | 0 | 9 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Napolitano broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Napolitano pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Bonzi broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Benjamin conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Napolitano | |||
| R1 Lam Coleman Wong |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 58-47 | 58-47 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 55% | 55% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 32/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Bonzi | |||||
| Q1 Clarke |
Q3 Kypson |
R1 Kudla |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-2 7-65 | 7-65 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | 26 | 68 | |
| pts | 72-57 | 71-60 | 95-85 | 238-202 | |
| Total points | 129 | 131 | 180 | 440 | |
| Winners | 30 | 31 | 42 | 103 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 44% | 44% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 8 | 18 | 28 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/61 | 40/61 | 58/89 | 137/211 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 66% | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 31/40 | 42/58 | 103/137 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 78% | 72% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 11/21 | 19/31 | 44/74 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 52% | 61% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2/4 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | 50% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 0/1 | 4/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | 67% | 167% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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