Nishesh Basavareddy and Giulio Zeppieri will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nishesh Basavareddy who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nishesh Basavareddy is the pick to win this match.
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 1.56
Giulio Zeppieri -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Nishesh Basavareddy vs. Giulio Zeppieri

There is no head to head record between Nishesh Basavareddy and Giulio Zeppieri since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Nishesh Basavareddy

Ranked no. 108, Basavareddy got to the 2^nd round after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (6-1 6-4). During the match, Basavareddy scored 54 points vs Ramanathan’s 31. Nishesh was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about the service games, Basavareddy recorded 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Nishesh Basavareddy was pretty effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Basavareddy broke Ramanathan 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Basavareddy has a solid record in the last 4 years having won 63% of his matches (85-49). 17-10 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Basavareddy has an aggregate62-27 win-loss record in the last 4 years on hard.

Basavareddy’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Auckland.

The American has a compiled 22-20 win-loss record in 2025, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Giulio Zeppieri

Ranked no. 171, Giulio got to the 2^nd round after defeating Evan Zhu 7-6(4) 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Zeppieri had a good straight sets win against Zhu (7-6⁴ 6-2). During the match Zeppieri scored 82 points vs Zhu’s 59. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Zeppieri recorded 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Giulio Zeppieri was extremely efficient on serve to win 89% (32/36) 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. The Italian broke Zhu twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Shanghai Challenger where he beat Yasutaka Uchiyama in the final 7-6(2) 7-5.

Giulio has a compiled 33-19 win-loss record in 2025, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Basavareddy	Zeppieri
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	21
Pts	54-31	82-59
Total Points	85	141
Winners	22	32
%Winners	41%	39%

Both Basavareddy and Zeppieri played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Basavareddy and Zeppieri have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Basavareddy played 4 games less than Zeppieri. The American scored 22 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Giulio fired 32 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Basavareddy	Zeppieri
Aces	11	11
Avg per match	11	11
1st in	26/44	36/55
%1st in	59%	65%
1st pts	22/26	32/36
%1st pts	85%	89%
2nd pts	12/18	13/19
%2nd pts	67%	68%

Basavareddy struck 11 aces . Zeppieri managed to score 11 aces . Basavareddy won 85% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Zeppieri won 89% 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	Basavareddy	Zeppieri
Won	4	2
Converted	4/5	2/6
% Converted	80%	33%
Conceded	1	0
Saved	0	0
% Saved	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	0

Nishesh broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Basavareddy lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Giulio was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Basavareddy
	R1 Ramanathan	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	54-31	54-31
Total points	85	85
Winners	22	22
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	26/44	26/44
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	22/26	22/26
% 1st pts	85%	85%
2nd pts	12/18	12/18
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
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

Zeppieri
	R1 Zhu	Total
Score	7-64 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	82-59	82-59
Total points	141	141
Winners	32	32
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	36/55	36/55
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	32/36	32/36
% 1st pts	89%	89%
2nd pts	13/19	13/19
% 2nd pts	68%	68%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/6	2/6
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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