Francisco Cerundolo and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves will square off in the 2nd round of the Iasi Challenger for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1 pm on Court 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.56
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves
This will be the 3rd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Cerundolo (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
Francisco Cerundolo
Ranked no. 237, Cerundolo reached the 2nd round after defeating Arthur De Greef 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, Francisco had a good straight sets win against De Greef (6-1 6-4). During the match Cerundolo scored 64 points vs De Greef’s 42. Cerundolo was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cerundolo managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Francisco Cerundolo was very efficent on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke De Greef 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Cerundolo has a fantastic record in the last 5 years having won 72% of his matches (139-54). 11-7 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cerundolo has a 131-50 record in the last 5 years on clay.
Francisco’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Los Angeles.
Cerundolo has a 16-7 win-loss record in 2020, 11-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Iasi Challenger
The Argentine didn’t play in the Iasi Challenger in 2019.
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves
Ranked no. 354, the Brazilian got to the 2nd round after beating Matei Adrian Georgescu 6-0 6-4, Alexandar Lazarov 6-4 6-2 and Enzo Couacaud 1-6 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round against Couacaud, The Brazilian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-3). During the match Meligeni Rodrigues Alves scored 77 points vs Couacaud’s 75. Felipe was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves was very efficent on serve to win 74% (37/50) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves broke Couacaud 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Felipe’s best result of the season was getting to the semi-finals in the Punta Del Este Challenger.
The Brazilian has a 8-4 win-loss record in 2020, 8-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Iasi Challenger
The Brazilian didn’t compete in the Iasi Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cerundolo | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 58 |
| Pts | 64-42 | 197-156 |
| Total Points | 106 | 353 |
| Winners | 20 | 90 |
| %Winners | 31% | 46% |
Cerundolo played 1 match while Meligeni Rodrigues Alves competed in 3 matches. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves started his run from the qualifications while Cerundolo had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves surrendered 1 set while Francisco Cerundolo hasn’t conceded a set so far. Cerundolo has played 5 set(s) less than Meligeni Rodrigues Alves (2 vs 7). Therefore, Cerundolo played 41 games less than Meligeni Rodrigues Alves. Cerundolo scored 20 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves managed to score 90 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cerundolo | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 26/40 | 112/171 |
| %1st in | 65% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 90/112 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 33/59 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 56% |
Cerundolo bagged 3 aces . Meligeni Rodrigues Alves recorded 3 aces (1 per match). Cerundolo won 77% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cerundolo | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 10 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 10/21 |
| % Converted | 50% | 48% |
| Conceded | 2 | 11 |
| Saved | 1 | 9 |
| % Saved | 50% | 82% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Francisco broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Francisco lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Brazilian broke his opponents 10 times with a 48% conversion rate. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cerundolo | |||
| R1 De Greef |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 64-42 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/40 | 26/40 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Meligeni Rodrigues Alves | |||||
| Q1 Adrian Georgescu |
Q3 Lazarov |
R1 Couacaud |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | 6-4 6-2 | 1-6 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 | 24 | 58 | |
| pts | 57-34 | 63-47 | 77-75 | 197-156 | |
| Total points | 91 | 110 | 152 | 353 | |
| Winners | 19 | 34 | 37 | 90 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 54% | 48% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 21/41 | 41/53 | 50/77 | 112/171 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 77% | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 34/41 | 37/50 | 90/112 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 83% | 74% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 5/12 | 14/27 | 33/59 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 42% | 52% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 3/6 | 3/9 | 10/21 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 50% | 33% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 4/4 | 4/6 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 67% | 267% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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