H2H, prediction of Zizou Bergs vs Luca Nardi in Dubai with odds, preview, pick | 26th February 2025

PREVIEW. Dubai. Bergs and Nardi will play each other in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their next match on Wednesday the 26th of February

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Mark Hall
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Prediction and head to head Zizou Bergs vs. Luca Nardi

Zizou Bergs and Luca Nardi will play each other in the 2nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zizou Bergs who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Zizou Bergs is the pick to win this match.
Zizou Bergs -> 1.57
Luca Nardi -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Zizou Bergs vs. Luca Nardi

This will be the 3rd time that Zizou Bergs and Luca Nardi face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Bergs and Nardi (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Bergs won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Auckland back in January 2025.

Zizou Bergs

Zizou Bergs
Zizou Bergs

14 - 5win/loss

Hard
9-4
I Hard
5-1
Rank
53
High
49
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 23-17 12-7 2-5 5-1 4-4 0-0
2024 47-29 9-9 17-7 15-9 6-4 0-0
2023 38-27 8-7 16-7 9-10 5-3 0-0
2022 39-30 7-5 7-7 17-16 8-2 0-0
2021 38-21 2-5 15-10 21-6 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 56 (career-high), Bergs got to the 2nd round after defeating Aziz Dougaz 6-3 6-3.

In the 1st round, Bergs had a good straight sets win against Dougaz (6-3 6-3). During the match, Bergs scored 59 points vs Dougaz’s 37. The Belgian was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bergs scored just 1 ace in the match and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Zizou Bergs was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (20/27) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zizou broke Dougaz 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Bergs has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (315-185). 9-4 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Bergs has an overall 87-51 match record in the last years on hard.

Zizou’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Auckland.

Zizou has a composed 14-5 win-loss record in 2025, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Zizou has never competed in this tournament before.

Bergs
Dubai
Bergs's Record

Luca Nardi

Luca Nardi
Luca Nardi

14 - 7win/loss

Hard
8-4
I Hard
6-3
Rank
95
High
67
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 23-22 9-8 8-9 6-3 0-2 0-0
2024 32-27 14-14 8-5 9-4 1-4 0-0
2023 41-36 20-10 8-13 12-12 1-1 0-0
2022 33-20 5-2 11-10 17-8 0-0 0-0
2021 33-24 3-3 26-13 4-8 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 79, Nardi got to the 2nd round after beating Lloyd Harris 6-3 7-5, Marton Fucsovics 7-6(5) 6-4 and Marton Fucsovics 1-6 6-2 6-3.

In the 1st round against Fucsovics, Nardi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-3). During the match Nardi scored 92 points vs Fucsovics’s 88. Luca was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Nardi bagged 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Luca Nardi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Nardi put 50% of his first serves in, winning 68% (38/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (25/55) on the 2nd serve. Luca broke Fucsovics 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Nardi’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Koblenz Challenger.

Nardi has a composed 14-7 win-loss record in 2025, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Nardi
Dubai
Nardi's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

Z.Bergs
L.Nardi
1h:14
1h:14
Time on court​
!
5h:56
5h:56
1h:14
1h:14
Last match​
!
2h:12
2h:12
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
18
18
Games Played​
68
68
2
2
Set played​​
7
7
59
59
Total points​
256
256
59
59
Avg point​
85.3
85.3
20
20
Winners
86
86
20
20
Avg Winners​
28.7
28.7
34%
34%
Ratio winners
34%
34%
-- Serve --
1
1
Aces
9
9
1
1
Avg Aces
3
3
0
0
Double Faults
15
15
0
0
Avg Double Faults
5
5
20/27
20/27
1st won total​
86/126
86/126
!
74%
74%
1st won %
68%
68%
16/23
16/23
2nd won total​
66/119
66/119
!
70%
70%
2nd won %
55%
55%
-- Break Points --
4/5
4/5
BP won
9/24
9/24
4/5
4/5
Avg BP won
3/8
3/8
!
80%
80%
Won
38%
38%
1
1
Conceded
23
23
1
1
Avg Conceded
7.7
7.7
1
1
Broken
7
7
1
1
Avg Broken
2.3
2.3
0
0
Saved
16
16
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Bergs Nardi
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 5
Tot Games 18 45
Pts 59-37 168-148
Total Points 96 316
Winners 20 60
%Winners 34% 36%

Bergs played 1 match while Nardi competed in 2 matches. Nardi started his run from the qualifications while Bergs had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Luca Nardi surrendered 1 set while Zizou Bergs hasn’t conceded a set so far. Bergs has played 3 set(s) less than Nardi (2 vs 5). Therefore, Bergs played 27 games less than Nardi. Bergs scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Luca struck 60 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve Bergs Nardi
Aces 1 5
Avg per match 1 2.5
1st in 27/50 87/176
%1st in 54% 49%
1st pts 20/27 60/87
%1st pts 74% 69%
2nd pts 16/23 52/89
%2nd pts 70% 58%

Bergs managed to score 1 ace . Nardi also recorded 5 aces (2.5 per match). Bergs won 74% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Nardi won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Bergs Nardi
Won 4 6
Converted 4/5 6/9
% Converted 80% 67%
Conceded 1 17
Saved 0 14
% Saved 0% 82%
Times Broken 1 3

Zizou broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Zizou dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponents 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.

Bergs
R1
Dougaz		 Total
Score 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 59-37 59-37
Total points 96 96
Winners 20 20
%Winners 34% 34%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 27/50 27/50
% 1st in 54% 54%
1st pts 20/27 20/27
% 1st pts 74% 74%
2nd pts 16/23 16/23
% 2nd pts 70% 70%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/5 4/5
Converted % 80% 80%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Nardi
Q1
Lloyd		 Q3
Fucsovics		 R1
Fucsovics		 Total
Score 6-3 7-5 7-65 6-4 1-6 6-2 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 3 7
Tot Games 21 23 24 68
pts 76-60 88-92 92-88 256-240
Total points 136 180 180 496
Winners 22 26 38 86
%Winners 29% 30% 41% 34%
SERVE
Aces 3 4 2 9
Double Faults 3 6 6 15
1st in 31/65 39/69 56/111 126/245
% 1st in 48% 57% 50% 51%
1st pts 22/31 26/39 38/56 86/126
% 1st pts 71% 67% 68% 68%
2nd pts 27/34 14/30 25/55 66/119
% 2nd pts 79% 47% 45% 55%
Breaks
Won 2 3 4 9
Converted 2/3 3/15 4/6 9/24
Converted % 67% 20% 67% 38%
Conceded 2 6 15 23
Saved 2/2 2/6 12/15 16
Saved % 100% 33% 80% 213%
Times Broken 0 4 3 7

Head 2 Head

Zizou Bergs
  • 0Slam
  • 0Main
  • 8Chall
  • 4Minor
Luca Nardi
  • 0Slam
  • 0Main
  • 7Chall
  • 3Minor

Zizou
Bergs

1:2

Luca
Nardi

Rank

53

High

49

1Hard2

Rank

95

High

67

Win Loss
Bergs
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Nardi
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2025 2024 2023
21 - 17
23 - 22
12-7
Hard
9-8
3-1
I Hard
6-3
2-5
Clay
8-9
4-4
Grass
0-2

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