Valentin Royer and Marco Cecchinato will face off in the 2^nd round of the Perugia Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.54
Marco Cecchinato -> 2.28

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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Marco Cecchinato

This will be the 3^rd time that Valentin Royer and Marco Cecchinato clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Royer (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Royer won 6-2 1-6 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Oeiras 3 Challenger back in April 2026.

Valentin Royer

Valentin Royer

12 - 18win/loss

Hard

2-8

I Hard

0-2

Clay

10-8

Rank
104

High
54

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	23-26	9-11	13-11	0-2	1-2	0-0
2025	61-31	16-8	31-11	10-10	4-2	0-0
2024	48-30	6-5	32-13	10-11	0-1	0-0
2023	51-20	24-7	22-10	5-3	0-0	0-0
2022	51-25	8-4	30-15	13-6	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 74, Valentin got to the 2^nd round after beating Nicolas Alvarez Varona 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Royer had a good straight sets win against Alvarez Varona (6-4 6-3). During the match, Royer scored 64 points vs Alvarez Varona’s 51. Royer was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about the service games, Royer blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Valentin Royer was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (29/40) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The French player broke Alvarez Varona 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Royer has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (281-165). 10-8 on clay in 2026. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Royer has an aggregate145-69 match record in the last 9 years on clay.

The French player best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Oeiras 3 Challenger.

Royer has an aggregate 12-18 win-loss record in 2026, 10-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Perugia Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Perugia Challenger

Royer's Record

Marco Cecchinato

Marco Cecchinato

21 - 15win/loss

Hard

0-1

I Hard

0-0

Clay

21-14

Rank
161

High
16

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	40-27	1-2	39-24	0-0	0-1	0-0
2025	39-34	0-0	39-34	0-0	0-0	0-0
2024	26-25	0-2	26-23	0-0	0-0	0-0
2023	13-23	1-4	12-17	0-0	0-2	0-0
2022	43-33	0-3	43-30	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 178, Cecchinato got to the 2^nd round after defeating Ilia Simakin 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Simakin (6-3 6-4). During the match Cecchinato scored 57 points vs Simakin’s 42. Cecchinato was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Cecchinato bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marco Cecchinato was quite effective on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 78% (14/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marco broke Simakin twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Marco’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Kigali 2 Challenger.

Cecchinato has a composed 21-15 win-loss record in 2026, 21-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Perugia Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2015. See his history.

Perugia Challenger

Cecchinato's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Royer and Cecchinato played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Royer and Cecchinato have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). Royer scored 29 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Marco managed to score 27 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Royer blasted 6 aces . Cecchinato struck 6 aces . Royer won 73% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Cecchinato won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 78% of the points.

How they played the important points

Valentin broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Royer surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Cecchinato broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Marco was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Valentin
Royer

2:1

Marco
Cecchinato

Rank

104

High

54

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Rank

161

High

16

Win Loss

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2026 2025 2024

23 - 26

40 - 27

9-11

Hard

1-2

13-11

Clay

39-24

1-2

Grass

0-1

Tennis Scores in Perugia Challenger

• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Luca NardiNardi – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Jacopo VasamiVasami – Cezar CretuCretu (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Henrique RochaRocha – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-4 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Francesco FortiForti – Jelle SelsSels (6-0 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Lorenzo CarboniCarboni (3-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Lucio RattiRatti (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Gonzalo BuenoBueno (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Pierluigi BasileBasile – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-6³ 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Moez EcharguiEchargui (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Liam BroadyBroady – David Jorda SanchisJorda Sanchis (5-7 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Ilia SimakinSimakin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Vilius GaubasGaubas (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Michele RibecaiRibecai (6-4 3-6 7-6²) – See score progression
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Moez EcharguiEchargui (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Henrique RochaRocha – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-4 7-6(7)) – See score progression
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Gonzalo BuenoBueno (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Luca NardiNardi – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Lucio RattiRatti (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Jacopo VasamiVasami – Cezar CretuCretu (7-6(4) 6-4) – See score progression
• Liam BroadyBroady – David Jorda SanchisJorda Sanchis (5-7 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Lorenzo CarboniCarboni (3-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Pierluigi BasileBasile – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-6(3) 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Francesco FortiForti – Jelle SelsSels (6-0 7-6(4)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Liam BroadyBroady – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Timofey SkatovSkatov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Royer

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Cecchinato