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Potito Starace vs Rafael Nadal Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Potito Starace seasons:20142013201220112010
Rafael Nadal seasons:20242023202220212020
🇮🇹 Potito Starace
🇪🇸 Rafael Nadal
Age: 44y 268d (1981-07-14)
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
(1986-06-03) Age: 39y 309d
Hand: L
Backhand: 2H
0 - 6
Wins: 0.0% - 100.0%
Hard 0–2Clay 0–4Grass 0–0
250 0–2500 0–2Masters 1000 0–1Olympics 0–1
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🇮🇹Potito Starace and 🇪🇸Rafael Nadal have met 6 times. Rafael Nadal currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 6–0.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇮🇹Potito Starace has compiled an overall career record of 162–193 across 355 matches, translating to a win rate of 45.63%. On hard courts his record stands at 28–62 (31.11%), while on clay he holds a 129–115 (52.87%) mark. On grass the numbers read 1–11 (8.33%) , and on carpet 4–5 (44.44%). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 2–23 (8.00%).

🇪🇸Rafael Nadal, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 1080–228 from 1308 matches (82.57% win rate). His hard-court record is 518–151 (77.43%), on clay he stands at 484–51 (90.47%), and on grass he has gone 76–20 (79.17%) , with a carpet record of 2–6 (25.00%). He has accumulated 92 titles in total (25 hard, 63 clay, 4 grass). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 186–105 (63.92%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 2 times, with Rafael Nadal leading 2–0 (100.00%). The clay record between them sits at 4–0 (100.00% for Rafael Nadal) across 4 matches.

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2010-01-04DohaHardR162🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (2)62🇮🇹Potito Starace6-2 6-23723164.0%81.3%50.0%0/0
2008-08-11Beijing OlympicsHardR642🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (2)74🇮🇹Potito Starace6-2 3-6 6-231354163.5%82.5%56.5%2/3
2008-05-11Hamburg MastersClayR322🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (2)47🇮🇹Potito Starace6-4 7-6(6)31282281.5%69.8%41.7%0/2
2008-04-28BarcelonaClayR322🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)45🇮🇹Potito Starace6-4 6-23782172.9%74.3%84.6%2/3
2007-04-23BarcelonaClayQF2🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (1)72🇮🇹Potito Starace6-2 7-531022073.4%63.8%70.6%3/4
2005-02-07Buenos AiresClayR1648🇪🇸Rafael Nadal (7)66🇮🇹Potito Starace6-1 6-33761169.8%86.7%38.5%2/3

Wins

Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal
0–6Overall
0–1Masters 1000
0–2ATP 500
0–2ATP 250
0–1Olympics
0–2Hard
0–4Clay

Sets Format

0.0%0
100.0%6
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
0.0%0
100.0%5
2 Sets
0.0%0
100.0%1
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal

Deciding

0.0%0
100.0%1
Decider Set
0.0%0
100.0%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal

Sets

7.7%1
92.3%12
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
100.0%2
Masters 1000
20.0%1
80.0%4
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
0.0%0
100.0%8
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal

Games

34.7%41
65.3%77
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
43.5%10
56.5%13
Masters 1000
34.1%14
65.9%27
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
35.1%27
64.9%50
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal

Overview

By Surface

Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal

By Tournament Level

Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal

By Round

Potito Starace
Rafael Nadal

By Opponent Ranking

Potito StaraceRafael Nadal
0%0-5
vs Top 1
54.8%23-19
0%0-20
vs Top 5
59.6%93-63
8%2-23
vs Top 10
63.9%186-105
16.1%9-47
vs Top 20
70.4%335-141
40.1%109-163
vs Top 100
81.4%927-212
63.9%53-30
vs +100
90.5%153-16
34.4%64-122
vs Higher
55%71-58
58%98-71
vs Lower
85.6%1009-170

Opponent Breakdown

Potito StaraceRafael Nadal
43.7%107-138
Vs Younger
81.9%470-104
49.5%54-55
Vs Older
83.1%610-124
45.7%147-175
Vs Right-Handed
82%963-211
43.8%14-18
Vs Left-Handed
87.3%117-17
41.7%88-123
Vs 2H Backhand
82.5%765-162
45.7%48-57
Vs 1H Backhand
82.7%315-66
40%94-141
Vs Shorter
86.5%447-70
58%51-37
Vs Taller
80.5%498-121

Pressure Situations