Luca Nardi and Stefano Travaglia will square off in the quarter of the Helsinki Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.35
Stefano Travaglia -> 2.88

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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Stefano Travaglia

There is no head to head record between Luca Nardi and Stefano Travaglia since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Luca Nardi

Ranked no. 81, Luca reached the quarter after defeating Edas Butvilas 6-4 6-2 and Viktor Durasovic 6-2 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, Nardi had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (6-2 6-2). During the match, Nardi scored 64 points vs Durasovic’s 44. Luca was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Nardi wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Luca Nardi was exceptionally effective on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nardi broke Durasovic 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Italian hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 58% of the points he played.

Nardi has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 55% of his matches (183-149). 8-5 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nardi has a compiled51-42 match record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

Nardi’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Koblenz Challenger.

The Italian has an overall 30-29 win-loss record in 2025, 8-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Helsinki Challenger

Stefano Travaglia

Ranked no. 230, the Italian got to the quarter after defeating Stuart Parker 6-3 6-4 and Eero Vasa 6-4 5-7 7-5.

In the 2^nd round, Stefano defeated Vasa (6-4 5-7 7-5). During the match Travaglia scored 105 points vs Vasa’s 98. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Travaglia scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Stefano Travaglia was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 67% (37/55) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Vasa 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Stefano has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Modena Challenger where he overcame Thiago Seyboth Wild in the final 6-4 6-3.

Travaglia has a compiled 35-23 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Helsinki Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nardi	Travaglia
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	4	5
Tot Games	34	53
Pts	120-87	167-141
Total Points	207	308
Winners	53	50
%Winners	44%	30%

Both Nardi and Travaglia played 2 matches. At the moment, Stefano Travaglia lost 1 set while Luca Nardi hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Nardi has played 1 set(s) less than Travaglia (4 vs 5). Therefore, Nardi played 19 games less than Travaglia. The Italian scored 53 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Stefano scored 50 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nardi	Travaglia
Aces	2	4
Avg per match	1	2
1st in	66/100	61/143
%1st in	66%	43%
1st pts	53/66	50/61
%1st pts	80%	82%
2nd pts	20/34	54/82
%2nd pts	59%	66%

Nardi bagged 2 aces (1 per match). Travaglia recorded 4 aces (2 per match). Nardi won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Travaglia won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 66% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Nardi	Travaglia
Won	7	6
Converted	7/13	6/14
% Converted	54%	43%
Conceded	5	6
Saved	5	3
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	3

Nardi broke his opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Luca extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 5 break points. The Italian broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Nardi
	R1 Butvilas	R2 Durasovic	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	18	16	34
pts	56-43	64-44	120-87
Total points	99	108	207
Winners	28	25	53
%Winners	50%	39%	44%
SERVE
Aces	2	0	2
Double Faults	1	1	2
1st in	35/52	31/48	66/100
% 1st in	67%	65%	66%
1st pts	28/35	25/31	53/66
% 1st pts	80%	81%	80%
2nd pts	10/17	10/17	20/34
% 2nd pts	59%	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	3	4	7
Converted	3/5	4/8	7/13
Converted %	60%	50%	54%
Conceded	2	3	5
Saved	2/2	3/3	5
Saved %	100%	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Travaglia
	R1 Parker	R2 Vasa	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	6-4 5-7 7-5
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	19	34	53
pts	62-43	105-98	167-141
Total points	105	203	308
Winners	23	27	50
%Winners	37%	26%	30%
SERVE
Aces	3	1	4
Double Faults	1	1	2
1st in	25/52	36/91	61/143
% 1st in	48%	40%	43%
1st pts	23/25	27/36	50/61
% 1st pts	92%	75%	82%
2nd pts	17/27	37/55	54/82
% 2nd pts	63%	67%	66%
Breaks
Won	3	3	6
Converted	3/4	3/10	6/14
Converted %	75%	30%	43%
Conceded	2	4	6
Saved	1/2	2/4	3
Saved %	50%	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	2	3

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