Luca Van Assche and Giulio Zeppieri will face off in the qualifications of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 3:30 pm on G IVANISEVIC STADIUM. 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 Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.57
Luca Van Assche -> 2.28

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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Giulio Zeppieri

There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Giulio Zeppieri since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Luca Van Assche

Ranked no. 192, Van Assche reached the qualifications after beating Marco Cecchinato 6-3 7-6(3).

In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Cecchinato (6-3 7-6³). During the match, Van Assche scored 88 points vs Cecchinato’s 75. Luca was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about the service games, Van Assche managed to score 2 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Luca Van Assche lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Van Assche put 62% of his first serves in, winning 70% (30/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Van Assche broke Cecchinato 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Van Assche has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (179-142). 15-11 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Van Assche has a composed92-61 record in the last 6 years on clay.

The French player best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Zagreb Challenger.

Van Assche has an overall 22-17 win-loss record in 2025, 15-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Umag

Giulio Zeppieri

Ranked no. 296, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Federico Coria 6-2 6-1.

In the qualifications, Giulio had a good straight sets win against Coria (6-2 6-1). During the match Zeppieri scored 58 points vs Coria’s 34. Giulio was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.

About the serving games, Zeppieri made 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Giulio Zeppieri was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zeppieri broke Coria 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

Giulio’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Koblenz Challenger.

Zeppieri has an overall 21-15 win-loss record in 2025, 12-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Umag

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Van Assche	Zeppieri
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	15
Pts	88-75	58-34
Total Points	163	92
Winners	30	21
%Winners	34%	36%

Both Van Assche and Zeppieri played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Van Assche and Zeppieri have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Van Assche played 7 games more than Zeppieri. Van Assche scored 30 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian bagged 21 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Van Assche	Zeppieri
Aces	2	5
Avg per match	2	5
1st in	43/69	27/43
%1st in	62%	63%
1st pts	30/43	21/27
%1st pts	70%	78%
2nd pts	13/26	9/16
%2nd pts	50%	56%

Van Assche bagged 2 aces . Zeppieri blasted 5 aces . Van Assche won 70% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Zeppieri won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Van Assche	Zeppieri
Won	4	5
Converted	4/6	5/6
% Converted	67%	83%
Conceded	6	3
Saved	4	3
% Saved	67%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

Van Assche broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Luca conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Giulio broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Giulio was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Van Assche
	Q1 Cecchinato	Total
Score	6-3 7-63
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	88-75	88-75
Total points	163	163
Winners	30	30
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	43/69	43/69
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	30/43	30/43
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	13/26	13/26
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Zeppieri
	Q1 Coria	Total
Score	6-2 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	58-34	58-34
Total points	92	92
Winners	21	21
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	27/43	27/43
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	21/27	21/27
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	9/16	9/16
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/6	5/6
Converted %	83%	83%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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