Mattia Bellucci and Seong Chan Hong will square off in the 1st round of the Cary Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 15. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mattia Bellucci who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mattia Bellucci is the pick to win this match.
Mattia Bellucci -> 1.45
Seong Chan Hong -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Mattia Bellucci vs. Seong Chan Hong
This will be the 2nd time that Mattia Bellucci and Seong Chan Hong play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Chan Hong (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Chan Hong won 6-4 6-1 in the 1st round in the Waco Challenger back in 2023.
Mattia Bellucci
30 - 23win/loss
113
113
WWWLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-23 | 14-10 | 5-2 | 5-7 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-34 | 22-19 | 2-9 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-23 | 30-4 | 25-12 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-18 | 29-10 | 5-3 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-6 | 13-3 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 114 (career-high), Mattia got to the 1st round after beating Elias Ymer 7-5 7-5 and Federico Agustin Gomez 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Agustin Gomez (6-4 6-2). During the match, Bellucci scored 73 points vs Agustin Gomez’s 58. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bellucci bagged 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Mattia Bellucci lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Bellucci put 69% of his first serves in, winning 70% (32/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Mattia broke Agustin Gomez 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Bellucci has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (213-124). 13-10 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bellucci has a composed115-54 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Bellucci’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Nottingham 2 Challenger.
The Italian has a composed 29-23 win-loss record in 2024, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
Bellucci has never competed in this tournament before.
Seong Chan Hong
35 - 23win/loss
156
156
LWWLWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-23 | 35-18 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 157 (career-high), Seong got to the 1st round after beating Alex Bolt 6-1 6-1 and Valentin Royer 6-4 7-6(8).
In the qualifications, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Royer (6-4 7-68). During the match Chan Hong scored 92 points vs Royer’s 77. The Korean was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Chan Hong bagged 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Seong Chan Hong was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (35/45) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Korean broke Royer once after converting 14% of his break points (1/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Chan Hong started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
The Korean’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Busan Challenger.
Chan Hong has an aggregate 35-22 win-loss record in 2024, 35-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bellucci | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 42 | 37 |
| Pts | 157-134 | 151-104 |
| Total Points | 291 | 255 |
| Winners | 58 | 51 |
| %Winners | 37% | 34% |
Both Bellucci and Chan Hong played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bellucci and Chan Hong have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Bellucci played 5 games more than Chan Hong. The Italian scored 58 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Seong fired 51 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bellucci | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 85/140 | 63/103 |
| %1st in | 61% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 58/85 | 51/63 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 27/55 | 28/40 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 70% |
Bellucci fired 10 aces (5 per match). Chan Hong struck 12 aces (6 per match). Bellucci won 68% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bellucci | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 6 |
| Converted | 9/24 | 6/18 |
| % Converted | 38% | 33% |
| Conceded | 12 | 1 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Mattia broke his opponents 9 times with a 38% conversion rate. Bellucci lost his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Chan Hong broke his opponents 6 times with a 33% conversion rate. Chan Hong was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Bellucci | ||||
| Q1 Ymer |
Q3 Agustin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 18 | 42 | |
| pts | 84-76 | 73-58 | 157-134 | |
| Total points | 160 | 131 | 291 | |
| Winners | 26 | 32 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 44% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 39/73 | 46/67 | 85/140 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 69% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 32/46 | 58/85 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 70% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 10/21 | 27/55 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 48% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/13 | 9/24 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 31% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4/5 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 80% | 69% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Chan Hong | ||||
| Q1 Bolt |
Q3 Royer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 6-4 7-68 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 23 | 37 | |
| pts | 59-27 | 92-77 | 151-104 | |
| Total points | 86 | 169 | 255 | |
| Winners | 16 | 35 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 38% | 34% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 18/32 | 45/71 | 63/103 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 63% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 16/18 | 35/45 | 51/63 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 78% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/14 | 16/26 | 28/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 86% | 62% | 70% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 1/7 | 6/18 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 14% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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