Mats Hermans and Svyatoslav Gulin will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Trieste Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on Court 3. 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 Svyatoslav Gulin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Svyatoslav Gulin is the pick to win this match.
Svyatoslav Gulin -> 1.097
Mats Hermans -> 6.25
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Prediction and head to head Mats Hermans vs. Svyatoslav Gulin
There is no head to head record between Mats Hermans and Svyatoslav Gulin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mats Hermans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 6-3 | 3-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Mats got to the qualifications after defeating Raul Brancaccio 6-4 2-1 ret. and Svyatoslav Gulin .
In the qualifications against Brancaccio, the Dutch had a free pass after Brancaccio retired on a 6-4 2-1 . scoreline.
Hermans has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 52% of his matches (11-10). 1-0 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Hermans has an aggregate8-8 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
Mats has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Mats has never competed in this tournament before.
Svyatoslav Gulin
28 - 16win/loss
491
413
LWWWLWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-21 | 3-1 | 31-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 58-23 | 6-6 | 52-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-21 | 3-3 | 36-15 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 424, Svyatoslav got to the qualifications after defeating Michelangelo Zvech Flaborea Mreule 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Svyatoslav had a good straight sets win against Zvech Flaborea Mreule (6-2 6-1). During the match Gulin scored 65 points vs Zvech Flaborea Mreule’s 43. Gulin was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Gulin scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Svyatoslav Gulin conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Gulin put 54% of his first serves in, winning 83% (24/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Zvech Flaborea Mreule 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Kamen.
Gulin has an overall 27-16 win-loss record in 2024, 24-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hermans | Gulin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 15 |
| Pts | 42-39 | 65-43 |
| Total Points | 81 | 108 |
| Winners | 22 | 24 |
| %Winners | 52% | 37% |
Both Hermans and Gulin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Hermans has played 1 set more than Gulin (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Hermans played 2 games less than Gulin. Hermans scored 22 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian made 24 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hermans | Gulin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 33/50 | 29/54 |
| %1st in | 66% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 22/33 | 24/29 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 12/25 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 48% |
Hermans fired 2 aces . Gulin scored 1 ace . Hermans won 67% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Gulin won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hermans | Gulin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 67% | 71% |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 |
| Saved | 6 | 5 |
| % Saved | 86% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Hermans broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Dutch lost his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Svyatoslav was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Hermans | |||
| Q1 Brancaccio |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 2-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 42-39 | 42-39 | |
| Total points | 81 | 81 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/50 | 33/50 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 22/33 | 22/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gulin | |||
| Q1 Zvech Flaborea Mreule |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 65-43 | 65-43 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 29/54 | 29/54 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 24/29 | 24/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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