Mattia Bellucci and Giovanni Fonio will face off in the 1st round of the Rome Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CAMPO 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giovanni Fonio is the pick to win this match.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.77
Mattia Bellucci -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Mattia Bellucci vs. Giovanni Fonio
This will be the 2nd time that Mattia Bellucci and Giovanni Fonio clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fonio (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Fonio won 4-6 6-1 10-4 in the qualifications in M15 Caslano back in 2020.
Mattia Bellucci
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-31 | 10-13 | 3-7 | 6-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-33 | 31-18 | 5-2 | 9-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-34 | 22-19 | 2-9 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-23 | 30-4 | 25-12 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-18 | 29-10 | 5-3 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 165, Mattia will start his run in the Rome Challenger after he played his last match in Banja Luka where he lost 6-3 6-0 to Prizmic in the qualifications on the 16th of April.
The Italian has an overall 5-11 win-loss record in 2023, 0-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Bellucci has an overall 156-78 record. He has a positive 44-27 record on clay.
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Bellucci has never competed in this tournament before.
Giovanni Fonio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-24 | 6-3 | 27-19 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-33 | 12-8 | 24-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-39 | 22-12 | 28-26 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 0-0 | 40-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 304, Fonio reached the 1st round after beating Federico Salomone 6-1 6-1 and Miguel Damas 6-0 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Damas (6-0 6-0). During the match Fonio scored 52 points vs Damas’s 21. Giovanni was quite aggressive to blast 16 winners.
About the serving games, Fonio managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Giovanni Fonio was quite effective on serve to win 84% (16/19) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Giovanni broke Damas 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fonio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 71% of the points he played.
Fonio’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and M25 Loule.
Giovanni has a composed 24-12 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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