Luca Castelnuovo and Sidharth Rawat will play each other in the qualifications of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COVERED COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Castelnuovo who should win in 2 sets.
Luca Castelnuovo -> 1.38
Sidharth Rawat -> 2.875
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Prediction and head to head Luca Castelnuovo vs. Sidharth Rawat
There is no head to head record between Luca Castelnuovo and Sidharth Rawat since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Luca Castelnuovo
41 - 20win/loss
410
400
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-23 | 32-18 | 3-2 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-21 | 25-20 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-23 | 22-15 | 4-3 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 9-16 | 8-7 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-2 |
| 2021 | 21-30 | 9-10 | 11-18 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 409 (career-high), the Swiss reached the qualifications after beating Duckhee Lee 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Hee Lee (6-2 6-4). During the match, Castelnuovo scored 64 points vs Hee Lee’s 49. Castelnuovo was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Castelnuovo recorded 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Luca Castelnuovo was very effective on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Swiss broke Hee Lee 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Castelnuovo has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (235-208). 30-16 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Castelnuovo has a compiled 145-126 record in the last years on hard.
Luca’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Kayseri,M25 Luzhou,M15 Maanshan and M25 Guiyang.
Castelnuovo has a composed 41-20 win-loss record in 2025, 30-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger
The Swiss has never competed in this tournament before.
Sidharth Rawat
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-23 | 29-22 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-15 | 16-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-24 | 35-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-16 | 24-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-14 | 11-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 665, Sidharth got to the qualifications after defeating Yaojie Zeng 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Zeng (6-2 6-2). During the match Rawat scored 63 points vs Zeng’s 40. Rawat was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Rawat scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Sidharth Rawat was quite effective on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sidharth was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Zeng 4 times.
Rawat’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Pathom.
Rawat has a composed 29-20 win-loss record in 2025, 29-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Castelnuovo | Rawat |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 |
| Pts | 64-49 | 63-40 |
| Total Points | 113 | 103 |
| Winners | 24 | 21 |
| %Winners | 38% | 33% |
Both Castelnuovo and Rawat played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Castelnuovo and Rawat have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Castelnuovo played 2 games more than Rawat. The Swiss scored 24 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Indian struck 21 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Castelnuovo | Rawat |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 1 |
| 1st in | 28/50 | 23/46 |
| %1st in | 56% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 21/23 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 13/22 | 14/23 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 61% |
Castelnuovo blasted 8 aces . Rawat made 1 ace . Castelnuovo won 86% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Rawat won 91% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Castelnuovo | Rawat |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 30% | 100% |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Luca broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Luca very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Indian broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Rawat was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Castelnuovo | |||
| Q1 Hee Lee | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-49 | 64-49 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/50 | 28/50 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 24/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/22 | 13/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Rawat | |||
| Q1 Zeng | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 63-40 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 23/46 | 23/46 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 21/23 | 21/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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