Francesco Forti and Francesco Maestrelli will face off in the 1st round of the Bari Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesco Maestrelli who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francesco Maestrelli is the pick to win this match.
Francesco Maestrelli -> 1.88
Francesco Forti -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Francesco Forti vs. Francesco Maestrelli
This will be the 2nd time that Francesco Forti and Francesco Maestrelli clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Forti (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Forti won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Sultan back in February 2021.
Francesco Forti
Ranked no. 327, the Italian will start his run in the Bari Challenger after he played his last match in the Ortisei Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(5) to Simon in the qualifications on the 7th of November.
Forti has an overall 41-27 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
The Italian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Kiseljak and M25 Klosters.
Talking about his overall career, Forti has an overall 126-95 record. He has a positive 26-17 record on hard.
Previously in the Bari Challenger
Francesco has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Maestrelli
Ranked no. 813 (career-high), Maestrelli got to the 1st round after beating Marco Miceli 6-3 6-3 and Gabriele Maria Noce 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Francesco had a good straight sets win against Maria Noce (6-3 6-1). During the match Maestrelli scored 60 points vs Maria Noce’s 40. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Maestrelli made 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Francesco Maestrelli was pretty efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Francesco broke Maria Noce 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Maestrelli started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
The Italian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Heraklion.
The Italian has an aggregate 31-15 win-loss record in 2021, 8-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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