Botic Van De Zandschulp

and Luca Nardi will play each other in the qualifications of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on ARENA. 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 Botic Van De Zandschulp who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Botic Van De Zandschulp is the pick to win this match.
Botic Van De Zandschulp -> 1.41
Luca Nardi -> 2.73

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Prediction and head to head Botic Van De Zandschulp vs. Luca Nardi

There is no head to head record between Botic Van De Zandschulp and Luca Nardi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Botic Van De Zandschulp

Ranked no. 67, Botic got to the qualifications after defeating Yosuke Watanuki 2-6 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications against Watanuki, The Dutch recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-3 6-1). During the match, Van De Zandschulp scored 77 points vs Watanuki’s 66. Botic was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Van De Zandschulp blasted 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Botic Van De Zandschulp was very effective on serve to win 74% (35/47) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Botic broke Watanuki 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Van De Zandschulp has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (339-201). 7-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Van De Zandschulp has an aggregate 59-41 record in the last years on hard.

Van De Zandschulp’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Braunschweig Challenger and the Luedenscheid Challenger.

The Dutch has an aggregate 26-27 win-loss record in 2024, 7-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Botic has never competed in this tournament before.

Luca Nardi

Ranked no. 88, Luca reached the qualifications after beating Rei Sakamoto 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Nardi had a good straight sets win against Sakamoto (6-3 6-1). During the match Nardi scored 53 points vs Sakamoto’s 38. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Nardi bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Luca Nardi was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nardi broke Sakamoto 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Naples Challenger where he defeated Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the final 5-7 7-6(3) 6-2.

Nardi has an overall 22-21 win-loss record in 2024, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Van De Zandschulp	Nardi
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	24	16
Pts	77-66	53-38
Total Points	143	91
Winners	35	25
%Winners	45%	47%

Both Van De Zandschulp and Nardi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Botic Van De Zandschulp conceded 1 set while Luca Nardi hasn’t conceded a set so far. Van De Zandschulp has played 1 set more than Nardi (3 vs 2). Therefore, Van De Zandschulp played 8 games more than Nardi. Van De Zandschulp scored 35 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian fired 25 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Van De Zandschulp	Nardi
Aces	6	2
Avg per match	6	2
1st in	47/70	34/49
%1st in	67%	69%
1st pts	35/47	25/34
%1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	12/23	9/15
%2nd pts	52%	60%

Van De Zandschulp scored 6 aces . Nardi blasted 2 aces . Van De Zandschulp won 74% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Nardi won 74% of the points on 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	Van De Zandschulp	Nardi
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/6
% Converted	40%	67%
Conceded	7	2
Saved	5	2
% Saved	71%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

Van De Zandschulp broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Dutch dropped his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Nardi broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Luca was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Van De Zandschulp
	Q1 Watanuki	Total
Score	2-6 6-3 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	77-66	77-66
Total points	143	143
Winners	35	35
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	47/70	47/70
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	35/47	35/47
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	12/23	12/23
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/10
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	5/7	5
Saved %	71%	71%
Times Broken	2	2

Nardi
	Q1 Sakamoto	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	53-38	53-38
Total points	91	91
Winners	25	25
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	34/49	34/49
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	25/34	25/34
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	9/15	9/15
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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