Matteo Gigante and Stefano Travaglia will square off in the 2nd round of the Montechiarugolo Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefano Travaglia who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefano Travaglia is the pick to win this match.
Stefano Travaglia -> 1.78
Matteo Gigante -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Gigante vs. Stefano Travaglia
This will be the 3rd time that Matteo Gigante and Stefano Travaglia play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Gigante (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Gigante won 6-3 6-2 in the final in the Tenerife 3 Challenger back in February 2023.
Matteo Gigante
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-23 | 9-9 | 15-8 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-25 | 27-10 | 11-10 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 10-5 | 19-18 | 1-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 9-1 | 27-15 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-15 | 2-2 | 16-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 242, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Jozef Kovalik 6-4 7-65.
In the 1st round, Matteo had a good straight sets win against Kovalik (6-4 7-65). During the match, Gigante scored 75 points vs Kovalik’s 62. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gigante fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Matteo Gigante was extremely efficient on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gigante broke Kovalik once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Gigante has a winning record in the last 5 years having won 58% of his matches (86-63). 6-9 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Gigante has an aggregate57-39 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Tenerife 3 Challenger where he beat Stefano Travaglia in the final 6-3 6-2.
Gigante has a compiled 17-16 win-loss record in 2023, 6-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montechiarugolo Challenger
Gigante has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefano Travaglia
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-25 | 0-2 | 32-20 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-34 | 5-6 | 24-22 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-37 | 9-7 | 29-24 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-27 | 5-8 | 2-11 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-28 | 7-7 | 20-14 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 256, will start his run in the Montechiarugolo Challenger after he played his last match in the Montechiarugolo Challenger where he defeated 6-2 ret. to Lavagno in the 1st round on the 20th of June.
Stefano has an overall 29-20 win-loss record in 2023, 21-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Stefano’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Tenerife 3 Challenger and M25 Palmanova.
In terms of his career, The Italian has an overall 458-265 record. He has a positive 351-170 record on clay.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gigante | Travaglia |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 8 |
| Pts | 75-62 | 27-19 |
| Total Points | 137 | 46 |
| Winners | 30 | 6 |
| %Winners | 40% | 22% |
Both Gigante and Travaglia played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gigante and Travaglia have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gigante played 15 games more than Travaglia. The Italian scored 30 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Stefano scored 6 winners (22%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gigante | Travaglia |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 1 |
| 1st in | 36/64 | 9/23 |
| %1st in | 56% | 39% |
| 1st pts | 30/36 | 6/9 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 18/28 | 7/14 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 50% |
Gigante fired 6 aces . Travaglia recorded 1 ace . Gigante won 83% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Travaglia won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gigante | Travaglia |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 3 |
| Converted | 1/4 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 25% | 75% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Italian broke his opponent once with a 25% conversion rate. The Italian quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Stefano broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Stefano conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gigante | |||
| R1 Kovalik |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 75-62 | 75-62 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/64 | 36/64 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 30/36 | 30/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/28 | 18/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/4 | 1/4 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Travaglia | |||
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | |||
| Tot Set | 0 | ||
| Tot Games | 0 | ||
| pts | 0-0 | ||
| Total points | 0 | ||
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | ||
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st in | 0% | ||
| 1st pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st pts | 0% | ||
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 0% | ||
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | 0/0 | ||
| Converted % | 0% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0 | ||
| Saved % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWWWLW Tennis Scores in Montechiarugolo Challenger
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Luciano DarderiDarderi (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Filippo MoroniMoroni (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Blaz RolaRola – Alexander WeisWeis (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Jozef KovalikKovalik (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Federico GaioGaio – Francesco FortiForti (7-64 7-62) – See score progression
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Filippo MoroniMoroni (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Luciano DarderiDarderi (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-4 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Blaz RolaRola – Alexander WeisWeis (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Giovanni FonioFonio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Alexandre MullerMuller (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Pablo CuevasCuevas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bogdan BobrovBobrov – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (1-4) – H2H and prediction
