Dennis Novak and Raul Brancaccio will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Nottingham Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dennis Novak who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Dennis Novak is the pick to win this match.
Dennis Novak -> 1.48
Raul Brancaccio -> 2.5

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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Raul Brancaccio

This will be the 3rd time that Dennis Novak and Raul Brancaccio square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they locked horns, Novak won 6-4 7-6(9) in the semifinal in the Szczecin Challenger back in 2022.

Dennis Novak

Dennis Novak

1 - 0win/loss

Rank
351
High
85
W
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0
2024 28-26 5-6 18-15 5-4 0-1 0-0
2023 38-23 12-3 12-10 10-8 4-2 0-0
2022 33-27 2-2 21-14 6-9 4-1 0-1
2021 26-29 1-3 9-12 14-11 2-3 0-0
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Ranked no. 351, Novak got to the 2nd round after defeating Edas Butvilas 7-6(3) 6-3.

In the 1st round, Dennis had a good straight sets win against Butvilas (7-63 6-3). During the match, Novak scored 89 points vs Butvilas’s 75. Novak was pretty aggressive to blast 46 winners.

Regarding the service games, Novak couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Dennis Novak lost the serve once and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Novak put 76% of his first serves in, winning 71% (46/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. The Austrian broke Butvilas twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Novak has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (328-216). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Novak has an overall 76-57 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

The Austrian has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Nottingham Challenger

Dennis has never competed in this tournament before.

Nottingham Challenger
Novak's Record

Raul Brancaccio

Raul Brancaccio

3 - 0win/loss

Rank
451
High
121
WWW
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 3-0 0-0 0-0 3-0 0-0 0-0
2024 27-27 6-6 21-19 0-2 0-0 0-0
2023 28-32 14-7 11-19 2-4 1-2 0-0
2022 39-26 7-6 31-18 1-2 0-0 0-0
2021 47-26 2-1 43-21 2-4 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 451, Brancaccio got to the 2nd round after defeating Toby Martin 6-4 6-1, Patrick Brady 7-6(4) 3-6 6-3 and Tristan Lamasine 6-4 6-2.

In the 1st round, Raul had a good straight sets win against Lamasine (6-4 6-2). During the match Brancaccio scored 63 points vs Lamasine’s 49. Raul was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Brancaccio couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Raul Brancaccio lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Brancaccio put 60% of his first serves in, winning 70% (23/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the 2nd serve. Brancaccio broke Lamasine 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Raul has an overall 3-0 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Nottingham Challenger
Brancaccio's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

D.Novak
R.Brancaccio
1h:42
1h:42
Time on court​
!
5h:07
5h:07
1h:42
1h:42
Last match​
1h:19
1h:19
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
22
22
Games Played​
66
66
2
2
Set played​​
7
7
89
89
Total points​
227
227
89
89
Avg point​
75.7
75.7
46
46
Winners
95
95
46
46
Avg Winners​
31.7
31.7
52%
52%
Ratio winners
42%
42%
-- Serve --
0
0
Aces
10
10
0
0
Avg Aces
3.3
3.3
1
1
Double Faults
10
10
1
1
Avg Double Faults
3.3
3.3
46/65
46/65
1st won total​
95/128
95/128
!
71%
71%
1st won %
!
74%
74%
10/21
10/21
2nd won total​
39/82
39/82
48%
48%
2nd won %
48%
48%
-- Break Points --
2/6
2/6
BP won
13/20
13/20
2/6
2/6
Avg BP won
4.3/6.7
4.3/6.7
33%
33%
Won
!
65%
65%
9
9
Conceded
19
19
9
9
Avg Conceded
6.3
6.3
1
1
Broken
7
7
1
1
Avg Broken
2.3
2.3
8
8
Saved
12
12
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Novak Brancaccio
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 7
Tot Games 22 66
Pts 89-75 227-191
Total Points 164 418
Winners 46 95
%Winners 52% 42%

Novak played 1 match while Brancaccio competed in 3 matches. Brancaccio started his run from the qualifications while Novak had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Raul Brancaccio conceded 1 set while Dennis Novak hasn’t dropped a set so far. Novak has played 5 set(s) less than Brancaccio (2 vs 7). Therefore, Novak played 44 games less than Brancaccio. The Austrian scored 46 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Brancaccio made 95 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Novak Brancaccio
Aces 0 10
Avg per match 0 3.3
1st in 65/86 128/210
%1st in 76% 61%
1st pts 46/65 95/128
%1st pts 71% 74%
2nd pts 10/21 39/82
%2nd pts 48% 48%

Novak didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Brancaccio recorded 10 aces (3.3 per match). Novak won 71% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Brancaccio won 74% 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 Novak Brancaccio
Won 2 13
Converted 2/6 13/20
% Converted 33% 65%
Conceded 9 19
Saved 8 12
% Saved 89% 63%
Times Broken 1 7

The Austrian broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Novak conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. Raul broke his opponents 13 times with a 65% conversion rate. Raul conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.

Novak
R1
Butvilas		 Total
Score 7-63 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
pts 89-75 89-75
Total points 164 164
Winners 46 46
%Winners 52% 52%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 65/86 65/86
% 1st in 76% 76%
1st pts 46/65 46/65
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 10/21 10/21
% 2nd pts 48% 48%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/6 2/6
Converted % 33% 33%
Conceded 9 9
Saved 8/9 8
Saved % 89% 89%
Times Broken 1 1
Brancaccio
Q1
Martin		 Q3
Brady		 R1
Lamasine		 Total
Score 6-4 6-1 7-64 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 3 2 7
Tot Games 17 31 18 66
pts 57-43 107-99 63-49 227-191
Total points 100 206 112 418
Winners 29 43 23 95
%Winners 51% 40% 37% 42%
SERVE
Aces 4 6 0 10
Double Faults 2 5 3 10
1st in 39/61 56/94 33/55 128/210
% 1st in 64% 60% 60% 61%
1st pts 29/39 43/56 23/33 95/128
% 1st pts 74% 77% 70% 74%
2nd pts 9/22 18/38 12/22 39/82
% 2nd pts 41% 47% 55% 48%
Breaks
Won 4 4 5 13
Converted 4/4 4/8 5/8 13/20
Converted % 100% 50% 63% 65%
Conceded 5 8 6 19
Saved 4/5 4/8 4/6 12
Saved % 80% 50% 67% 197%
Times Broken 1 4 2 7

Tennis Scores in Nottingham Challenger

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