Luca Nardi and August Holmgren will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on COURT 9. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Nardi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.56
August Holmgren -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. August Holmgren

This will be the 2^nd time that Luca Nardi and August Holmgren square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Nardi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Nardi won 6-3 3-6 7-5 in the 2^nd round in the Kobe Challenger back in 2023.

Luca Nardi

Ranked no. 102, the Italian got to the 2^nd round after beating Goncalo Oliveira 6-3 ret..

In the 1^st round against Oliveira, Nardi had a free pass after Oliveira retired on a 6-3 . scoreline.

Nardi has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 55% of his matches (144-118). 1-2 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Nardi has a compiled35-35 record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

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

Luca has an aggregate 23-25 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Helsinki Challenger

Nardi has never competed in this tournament before.

August Holmgren

Ranked no. 180, August reached the 2^nd round after beating Edas Butvilas 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Holmgren had a good straight sets win against Butvilas (6-4 6-1). During the match Holmgren scored 65 points vs Butvilas’s 44. The Dane was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Holmgren made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. August Holmgren was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. August broke Butvilas 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Pozoblanco Challenger where he defeated Antoine Escoffier in the final 3-6 6-3 6-4 and the Porto Challenger where he beat Alejandro Moro Canas in the final 7-6(3) 7-6(6).

Holmgren has an overall 34-22 win-loss record in 2024, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nardi	Holmgren
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	9	17
Pts	28-21	65-44
Total Points	49	109
Winners	12	23
%Winners	43%	35%

Both Nardi and Holmgren played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nardi and Holmgren have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nardi played 8 games less than Holmgren. Nardi scored 12 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, August made 23 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nardi	Holmgren
Aces	2	4
Avg per match	2	4
1st in	14/21	30/49
%1st in	67%	61%
1st pts	12/14	23/30
%1st pts	86%	77%
2nd pts	4/7	13/19
%2nd pts	57%	68%

Nardi struck 2 aces . Holmgren scored 4 aces . Nardi won 86% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Holmgren won 77% of the points behind 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	Nardi	Holmgren
Won	2	4
Converted	2/2	4/6
% Converted	100%	67%
Conceded	0	3
Saved	0	3
% Saved	0%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Nardi broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The Italian pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. August broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Dane was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Nardi
	R1 Oliveira	Total
Score	6-3 ret.
Tot Set	1	1
Tot Games	9	9
pts	28-21	28-21
Total points	49	49
Winners	12	12
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	14/21	14/21
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	12/14	12/14
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	4/7	4/7
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
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

Holmgren
	R1 Butvilas	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	65-44	65-44
Total points	109	109
Winners	23	23
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	30/49	30/49
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	23/30	23/30
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	13/19	13/19
% 2nd pts	68%	68%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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