Gabriele Piraino and Dennis Novak will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gabriele Piraino who should win in 3 sets.
Gabriele Piraino -> 1.84
Dennis Novak -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Gabriele Piraino vs. Dennis Novak
There is no head to head record between Gabriele Piraino and Dennis Novak since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Gabriele Piraino
35 - 16win/loss
371
345
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-21 | 0-1 | 43-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-27 | 5-6 | 28-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-31 | 4-3 | 23-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-26 | 2-2 | 35-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 351, Gabriele got to the qualifications after defeating Gregor Ramskogler 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Ramskogler (7-5 6-4). During the match, Piraino scored 93 points vs Ramskogler’s 81. Piraino was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Piraino couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Gabriele Piraino was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (36/49) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Piraino broke Ramskogler 3 times after converting 21% of his break points (3/14).
Piraino has a winning record in the last 5 years having won 58% of his matches (152-112). 35-15 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Piraino has a compiled141-100 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Santa margherita di Pula,M15 Gubbio and M25 Wetzlar.
Gabriele has a composed 35-16 win-loss record in 2025, 35-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Dennis Novak
25 - 19win/loss
532
85
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-22 | 5-5 | 14-12 | 8-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 399, Dennis got to the qualifications after beating Syl Gaxherri 6-2 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, Novak had a good straight sets win against Gaxherri (6-2 7-64). During the match Novak scored 83 points vs Gaxherri’s 68. Novak was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Novak recorded 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dennis Novak lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Novak put 69% of his first serves in, winning 70% (31/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. The Austrian broke Gaxherri 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
The Austrian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Sunderland,M25 Kramsach and M25 Maribor.
The Austrian has an overall 25-19 win-loss record in 2025, 13-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Piraino | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 21 |
| Pts | 93-81 | 83-68 |
| Total Points | 174 | 151 |
| Winners | 36 | 31 |
| %Winners | 39% | 37% |
Both Piraino and Novak played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Piraino and Novak have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Piraino played 1 game more than Novak. Piraino scored 36 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Novak fired 31 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Piraino | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 7 |
| 1st in | 49/80 | 44/64 |
| %1st in | 61% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 31/44 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 14/20 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 70% |
Piraino didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Novak scored 7 aces . Piraino won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Novak won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Piraino | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/14 | 3/12 |
| % Converted | 21% | 25% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Gabriele broke his opponent 3 times with a 21% conversion rate. Piraino surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Novak broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Novak conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Piraino | |||
| Q1 Ramskogler | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 93-81 | 93-81 | |
| Total points | 174 | 174 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 49/80 | 49/80 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 16/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/14 | 3/14 | |
| Converted % | 21% | 21% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Novak | |||
| Q1 Gaxherri | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 83-68 | 83-68 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/64 | 44/64 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 31/44 | 31/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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