Luca Nardi and Edas Butvilas will square off in the 1st round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Luca Nardi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.45
Edas Butvilas -> 2.52

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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Edas Butvilas

There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Edas Butvilas since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Luca Nardi

Luca Nardi

28 - 29win/loss

Hard
14-13
I Hard
6-5
Clay
8-9
Grass
0-2
Rank
87
High
67
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 30-30 14-13 8-9 8-6 0-2 0-0
2024 32-27 14-14 8-5 9-4 1-4 0-0
2023 41-36 20-10 8-13 12-12 1-1 0-0
2022 33-20 5-2 11-10 17-8 0-0 0-0
2021 33-24 3-3 26-13 4-8 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 81, Luca will start his run in the Helsinki Challenger after he played his last match in the Brest Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Galarneau in the 1st round on the 21st of October.

The Italian has an aggregate 28-29 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Luca’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Koblenz Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Luca has an overall 181-149 record. He has a positive 49-42 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Helsinki Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2024. See his history.

Helsinki Challenger
Nardi's Record

Edas Butvilas

Edas Butvilas

32 - 29win/loss

Hard
20-12
I Hard
10-6
Clay
2-9
Grass
0-2
Rank
261
High
201
LLWWLWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 32-31 20-12 2-9 10-8 0-2 0-0
2024 54-26 28-12 26-11 0-3 0-0 0-0
2023 32-23 14-9 9-9 9-4 0-0 0-1
2022 4-10 1-2 2-4 1-3 0-1 0-0
2021 1-5 0-1 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 267, Edas got to the 1st round after beating Otso Martikainen 6-2 3-6 6-3 and Henri Squire 7-6(3) 3-6 6-0.

In the qualifications, Edas defeated Squire (7-63 3-6 6-0). During the match Butvilas scored 97 points vs Squire’s 80. Edas was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.

About the serving games, Butvilas blasted 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Edas Butvilas was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 70% (19/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Edas broke Squire 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Lithuanian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Hersonissos 1 Challenger where he defeated Stuart Parker in the final 6-3 6-3.

Butvilas has a composed 32-29 win-loss record in 2025, 10-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Helsinki Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.

Helsinki Challenger
Butvilas's Record

Tennis Scores in Helsinki Challenger

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