Quentin Halys and Luca Nardi will face off in the quarter of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Quentin Halys who should win in 3 sets.
Quentin Halys -> 1.63
Luca Nardi -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Quentin Halys vs. Luca Nardi
This will be the 2nd time that Quentin Halys and Luca Nardi clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Halys (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Halys won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in the Ortisei Challenger back in 2021.
Quentin Halys
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 16-18 | 10-6 | 4-6 | 0-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
2024 | 47-27 | 6-6 | 14-10 | 22-10 | 5-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 26-26 | 11-13 | 10-6 | 3-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 57-26 | 5-7 | 9-4 | 32-10 | 6-5 | 5-0 |
2021 | 35-27 | 14-8 | 10-9 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
Ranked no. 77, Quentin got to the quarter after defeating Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 7-6(4), Pavel Kotov 7-6(3) 7-5, Andrey Rublev 3-6 6-4 7-6(5) and Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6(5) 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Bautista-Agut (7-65 6-4). During the match, Halys scored 74 points vs Bautista-Agut’s 68. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Halys blasted 15 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Quentin Halys lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Halys put 55% of his first serves in, winning 90% (36/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (16/33) on the 2nd serve. Quentin broke Bautista-Agut twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has lost 1 set in this competition to win 52% of the points he played.
Halys has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (322-253). 7-3 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Halys has a compiled 88-82 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Quentin has an aggregate 7-5 win-loss record in 2025, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Luca Nardi
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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 |
Ranked no. 79, Luca reached the quarter after beating Lloyd Harris 6-3 7-5, Marton Fucsovics 7-6(5) 6-4, Marton Fucsovics 1-6 6-2 6-3 and Zizou Bergs 6-4 7-6(3).
In the 2nd round, Nardi had a good straight sets win against Bergs (6-4 7-63). During the match Nardi scored 74 points vs Bergs’s 63. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Nardi bagged 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Luca Nardi was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Bergs 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Luca’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Koblenz Challenger.
Luca has an overall 15-7 win-loss record in 2025, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Halys | Nardi |
---|---|---|
Match played | 4 | 3 |
Tot Set | 9 | 7 |
Tot Games | 102 | 68 |
Pts | 335-307 | 242-211 |
Total Points | 642 | 453 |
Winners | 151 | 93 |
%Winners | 45% | 38% |
Halys played 4 matches while Nardi competed in 3 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Quentin Halys lost 1 set, while Luca Nardi lost 1 set. Halys has played 2 sets more than Nardi (9 vs 7). Therefore, Halys played 34 games more than Nardi. The French player scored 151 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Luca fired 93 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Halys | Nardi |
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Aces | 51 | 10 |
Avg per match | 12.8 | 3.3 |
1st in | 184/329 | 132/249 |
%1st in | 56% | 53% |
1st pts | 151/184 | 93/132 |
%1st pts | 82% | 70% |
2nd pts | 78/145 | 67/117 |
%2nd pts | 54% | 57% |
Halys blasted 51 aces (12.8 per match). Nardi blasted 10 aces (3.3 per match). Halys won 82% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Nardi won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Halys | Nardi |
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Won | 7 | 9 |
Converted | 7/22 | 9/12 |
% Converted | 32% | 75% |
Conceded | 24 | 24 |
Saved | 20 | 19 |
% Saved | 83% | 79% |
Times Broken | 4 | 5 |
Halys broke his opponents 7 times with a 32% conversion rate. Quentin dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Luca broke his opponents 9 times with a 75% conversion rate. Luca conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded.
Halys | ||||||
Q1 Uchiyama | Q3 Kotov | R1 Rublev | R2 Bautista-Agut | Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 7-64 | 7-63 7-5 | 3-6 6-4 7-65 | 7-65 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 25 | 32 | 23 | 102 | |
pts | 77-60 | 90-84 | 94-95 | 74-68 | 335-307 | |
Total points | 137 | 174 | 189 | 142 | 642 | |
Winners | 32 | 40 | 43 | 36 | 151 | |
%Winners | 42% | 44% | 46% | 49% | 45% | |
SERVE | ||||||
Aces | 7 | 11 | 18 | 15 | 51 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 16 | |
1st in | 37/66 | 53/92 | 54/98 | 40/73 | 184/329 | |
% 1st in | 56% | 58% | 55% | 55% | 56% | |
1st pts | 32/37 | 40/53 | 43/54 | 36/40 | 151/184 | |
% 1st pts | 86% | 75% | 80% | 90% | 82% | |
2nd pts | 17/29 | 20/39 | 25/44 | 16/33 | 78/145 | |
% 2nd pts | 59% | 51% | 57% | 48% | 54% | |
Breaks | ||||||
Won | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
Converted | 2/6 | 1/5 | 2/6 | 2/5 | 7/22 | |
Converted % | 33% | 20% | 33% | 40% | 32% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 24 | |
Saved | 2/3 | 3/3 | 10/12 | 5/6 | 20 | |
Saved % | 67% | 100% | 83% | 83% | 83% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Nardi | ||||||
Q1 Lloyd | Q3 Fucsovics | R1 Fucsovics | R2 Bergs | Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 7-5 | 7-65 6-4 | 1-6 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 7-63 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 91 | |
pts | 76-60 | 88-92 | 92-88 | 74-63 | 330-303 | |
Total points | 136 | 180 | 180 | 137 | 633 | |
Winners | 22 | 26 | 38 | 33 | 119 | |
%Winners | 29% | 30% | 41% | 45% | 36% | |
SERVE | ||||||
Aces | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 17 | |
1st in | 31/65 | 39/69 | 56/111 | 45/73 | 171/318 | |
% 1st in | 48% | 57% | 50% | 62% | 54% | |
1st pts | 22/31 | 26/39 | 38/56 | 33/45 | 119/171 | |
% 1st pts | 71% | 67% | 68% | 73% | 70% | |
2nd pts | 27/34 | 14/30 | 25/55 | 15/28 | 81/147 | |
% 2nd pts | 79% | 47% | 45% | 54% | 55% | |
Breaks | ||||||
Won | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | |
Converted | 2/3 | 3/15 | 4/6 | 3/3 | 12/27 | |
Converted % | 67% | 20% | 67% | 100% | 44% | |
Conceded | 2 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 30 | |
Saved | 2/2 | 2/6 | 12/15 | 5/7 | 21 | |
Saved % | 100% | 33% | 80% | 71% | 71% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
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