Mattia Bellucci and Nishesh Basavareddy will square off in the 2^nd round of the Cary Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.53
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Mattia Bellucci vs. Nishesh Basavareddy

There is no head to head record between Mattia Bellucci and Nishesh Basavareddy since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Mattia Bellucci

Ranked no. 113 (career-high), Mattia got to the 2^nd round after defeating Elias Ymer 7-5 7-5, Federico Agustin Gomez 6-4 6-2 and Seong Chan Hong 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Chan Hong (6-4 6-2). During the match, Bellucci scored 70 points vs Chan Hong’s 50. Mattia was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bellucci scored 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Mattia Bellucci was very effective on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mattia broke Chan Hong 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).

Bellucci has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (214-124). 14-10 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Bellucci has an overall116-54 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

Bellucci’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Nottingham 2 Challenger.

The Italian has a compiled 30-23 win-loss record in 2024, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cary Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Nishesh Basavareddy

Ranked no. 276 (career-high), the American reached the 2^nd round after beating Adam Walton 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Basavareddy had a good straight sets win against Walton (6-4 6-4). During the match Basavareddy scored 62 points vs Walton’s 48. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.

About the serving games, Basavareddy fired 2 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Nishesh Basavareddy was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (19/25) of his 1st serve and 68% (17/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Basavareddy broke Walton 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

The American’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Calabasas and the Bloomfield Hills Challenger.

Nishesh has a compiled 18-8 win-loss record in 2024, 18-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bellucci	Basavareddy
Match played	3	1
Tot Set	6	2
Tot Games	60	20
Pts	227-184	62-48
Total Points	411	110
Winners	87	19
%Winners	38%	31%

Bellucci played 3 matches while Basavareddy competed in 1 match. Bellucci started his run from the qualifications while Basavareddy had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Bellucci has played 4 sets more than Basavareddy (6 vs 2). Therefore, Bellucci played 40 games more than Basavareddy. Bellucci scored 87 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Basavareddy blasted 19 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bellucci	Basavareddy
Aces	17	2
Avg per match	5.7	2
1st in	120/197	25/50
%1st in	61%	50%
1st pts	87/120	19/25
%1st pts	73%	76%
2nd pts	39/77	17/25
%2nd pts	51%	68%

Bellucci scored 17 aces (5.7 per match). Basavareddy fired 2 aces . Bellucci won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Basavareddy won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bellucci	Basavareddy
Won	12	4
Converted	12/35	4/7
% Converted	34%	57%
Conceded	13	5
Saved	9	3
% Saved	69%	60%
Times Broken	4	2

Mattia broke his opponents 12 times with a 34% conversion rate. Mattia dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded. Basavareddy broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Basavareddy conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Bellucci
	Q1 Ymer	Q3 Agustin	R1 Chan Hong	Total
Score	7-5 7-5	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	24	18	18	60
pts	84-76	73-58	70-50	227-184
Total points	160	131	120	411
Winners	26	32	29	87
%Winners	31%	44%	41%	38%
SERVE
Aces	6	4	7	17
Double Faults	3	4	3	10
1st in	39/73	46/67	35/57	120/197
% 1st in	53%	69%	61%	61%
1st pts	26/39	32/46	29/35	87/120
% 1st pts	67%	70%	83%	73%
2nd pts	17/34	10/21	12/22	39/77
% 2nd pts	50%	48%	55%	51%
Breaks
Won	5	4	3	12
Converted	5/11	4/13	3/11	12/35
Converted %	45%	31%	27%	34%
Conceded	7	5	1	13
Saved	4/7	4/5	1/1	9
Saved %	57%	80%	100%	79%
Times Broken	3	1	0	4

Basavareddy
	R1 Walton	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	62-48	62-48
Total points	110	110
Winners	19	19
%Winners	31%	31%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	25/50	25/50
% 1st in	50%	50%
1st pts	19/25	19/25
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	17/25	17/25
% 2nd pts	68%	68%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	3/5	3
Saved %	60%	20%
Times Broken	2	2

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