Sumit Nagal and Alexander Ritschard will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Valencia Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on PISTA 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sumit Nagal who should win in 3 sets.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.62
Alexander Ritschard -> 2.2
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Prediction and head to head Sumit Nagal vs. Alexander Ritschard
This will be the 2nd time that Sumit Nagal and Alexander Ritschard play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nagal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Nagal won 6-1 6-7(5) 6-3 in the final in the Heilbronn Challenger back in 2024.
Sumit Nagal
31 - 26win/loss
273
68
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-27 | 2-3 | 30-23 | 2-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-29 | 15-13 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 9-8 | 32-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-18 | 0-1 | 16-17 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-26 | 1-4 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 289, Nagal reached the qualifications after defeating Andres Santamarta Roig 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Sumit had a good straight sets win against Santamarta Roig (6-4 6-2). During the match, Nagal scored 65 points vs Santamarta Roig’s 49. Sumit was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nagal scored 2 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Sumit Nagal was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nagal broke Santamarta Roig 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Nagal has good match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (315-228). 27-22 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Nagal has an aggregate 242-149 match record in the last years on clay.
Nagal’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Trieste Challenger and the Tampere Challenger.
The Indian has a compiled 31-26 win-loss record in 2025, 27-22 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
Alexander Ritschard
15 - 14win/loss
530
99
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-15 | 0-1 | 11-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-23 | 7-5 | 29-8 | 5-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 539, the Swiss reached the qualifications after beating Javier Barranco Cosano 6-1 4-6 7-6(2).
In the qualifications, Ritschard defeated Barranco Cosano (6-1 4-6 7-62). During the match Ritschard scored 103 points vs Barranco Cosano’s 84. The Swiss was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about serving, Ritschard bagged 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Alexander Ritschard was very effective on serve to win 74% (42/57) of his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Alexander broke Barranco Cosano 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
The Swiss’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Augsburg Challenger.
Ritschard has an overall 15-14 win-loss record in 2025, 11-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nagal | Ritschard |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 30 |
| Pts | 65-49 | 103-84 |
| Total Points | 114 | 187 |
| Winners | 32 | 42 |
| %Winners | 49% | 41% |
Both Nagal and Ritschard played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Alexander Ritschard dropped 1 set while Sumit Nagal hasn’t conceded a set so far. Nagal has played 1 set(s) less than Ritschard (2 vs 3). Therefore, Nagal played 12 games less than Ritschard. Nagal scored 32 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, The Swiss struck 42 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nagal | Ritschard |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 43/55 | 57/91 |
| %1st in | 78% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 32/43 | 42/57 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 20/34 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 59% |
Nagal managed to score 2 aces . Ritschard recorded 2 aces . Nagal won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Ritschard won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nagal | Ritschard |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 38% | 44% |
| Conceded | 2 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Nagal broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Nagal was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Ritschard broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Alexander conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nagal | |||
| Q1 Santamarta | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-49 | 65-49 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 43/55 | 43/55 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 32/43 | 32/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ritschard | |||
| Q1 Barranco | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 4-6 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 103-84 | 103-84 | |
| Total points | 187 | 187 | |
| Winners | 42 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 57/91 | 57/91 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 42/57 | 42/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/34 | 20/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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