Francisco Cerundolo and Inigo Cervantes will face off in the 2nd round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3 pm on Court 5. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.37
Inigo Cervantes -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Inigo Cervantes
There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Inigo Cervantes since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Francisco Cerundolo
Ranked no. 235, the Argentine reached the 2nd round after beating Mathieu Perchicot 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Francisco had a good straight sets win against Perchicot (6-4 6-3). During the match Cerundolo scored 63 points vs Perchicot’s 52. Francisco was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cerundolo fired 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Francisco Cerundolo was very effective on serve to win 80% (28/35) 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. The Argentine broke Perchicot 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Cerundolo has a fantastic record in the last 5 years having won 72% of his matches (140-55). 12-8 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cerundolo has a 132-51 record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Los Angeles.
Cerundolo has a 17-8 win-loss record in 2020, 12-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Sibiu Challenger
The Argentine didn’t play in the Sibiu Challenger in 2019.
Inigo Cervantes
Ranked no. 618, Inigo got to the 2nd round after defeating Elmar Ejupovic 6-3 7-62.
In the 1st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Ejupovic (6-3 7-62). During the match Cervantes scored 80 points vs Ejupovic’s 66. Inigo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Cervantes fired 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Inigo Cervantes was quite effective on serve to win 78% (29/37) of his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Inigo broke Ejupovic twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Cervantes has a 9-2 win-loss record in 2020, 9-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Sibiu Challenger
Cervantes didn’t compete in the Sibiu Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cerundolo | Cervantes |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 22 |
| Pts | 63-52 | 80-66 |
| Total Points | 115 | 146 |
| Winners | 28 | 29 |
| %Winners | 44% | 36% |
Both Cerundolo and Cervantes played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cerundolo and Cervantes have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cerundolo played 3 games less than Cervantes. The Argentine scored 28 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard managed to score 29 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cerundolo | Cervantes |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 5 |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 37/67 |
| %1st in | 67% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 29/37 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 18/30 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 60% |
Cerundolo blasted 2 aces . Cervantes managed to score 5 aces . Cerundolo won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Cervantes won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cerundolo | Cervantes |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 33% | 33% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Francisco broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Francisco extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. Inigo broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cerundolo | |||
| R1 Perchicot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-52 | 63-52 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 35/52 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 28/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Cervantes | |||
| R1 Ejupovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 80-66 | 80-66 | |
| Total points | 146 | 146 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 37/67 | 37/67 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 29/37 | 29/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/30 | 18/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Sibiu Challenger
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-3 5-7 6-0) – See score progression
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Dragos DimaDima (7-5 7-66) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Orlando LuzLuz – Vlad Victor CorneaVictor Cornea (6-1 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Inigo CervantesCervantes – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Johannes HaerteisHaerteis – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Kacper ZukZuk (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Mathieu PerchicotPerchicot (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Quentin HalysHalys (7-63 4-6 7-62) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Orlando LuzLuz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Inigo CervantesCervantes – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Corentin DenollyDenolly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-1) – H2H and prediction
