Alexandre Muller and Francesco Passaro will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Sanremo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexandre Muller who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexandre Muller is the pick to win this match.
Alexandre Muller -> 1.727
Francesco Passaro -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Alexandre Muller vs. Francesco Passaro
There is no head to head record between Alexandre Muller and Francesco Passaro since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alexandre Muller
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 16-15 | 7-8 | 8-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 21-13 | 3-2 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 206, the French player reached the 2nd round after defeating Lucas Miedler 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Alexandre had a good straight sets win against Miedler (6-3 6-4). During the match, Muller scored 60 points vs Miedler’s 45. The French player was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Muller struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Alexandre Muller lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Muller put 72% of his first serves in, winning 76% (26/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (6/13) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Miedler 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Muller has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (290-184). 1-0 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Muller has a compiled168-101 record in the last 8 years on clay.
The French player best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Bengalaru 1 Challenger.
Alexandre has an overall 11-9 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sanremo Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Passaro
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 17-14 | 3-3 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 28-35 | 8-11 | 18-20 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 49-28 | 12-6 | 35-18 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 43-27 | 4-5 | 39-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 493, Francesco reached the 2nd round after beating Ernests Gulbis 6-3 6-4, Mathieu Perchicot 6-2 6-0 and Borna Gojo 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Francesco had a good straight sets win against Gojo (6-4 6-2). During the match Passaro scored 71 points vs Gojo’s 51. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Passaro recorded 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Francesco Passaro lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Passaro put 62% of his first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Francesco broke Gojo 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
The Italian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
The Italian has an aggregate 14-8 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Muller | Passaro |
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Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
Tot Games | 19 | 51 |
Pts | 60-45 | 205-135 |
Total Points | 105 | 340 |
Winners | 26 | 71 |
%Winners | 43% | 35% |
Muller played 1 match while Passaro competed in 3 matches. Passaro started his run from the qualifications while Muller had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Muller has played 4 set(s) less than Passaro (2 vs 6). Therefore, Muller played 32 games less than Passaro. The French player scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Passaro bagged 71 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Muller | Passaro |
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Aces | 2 | 14 |
Avg per match | 2 | 4.7 |
1st in | 34/47 | 92/165 |
%1st in | 72% | 56% |
1st pts | 26/34 | 71/92 |
%1st pts | 76% | 77% |
2nd pts | 6/13 | 43/73 |
%2nd pts | 46% | 59% |
Muller managed to score 2 aces . Passaro blasted 14 aces (4.7 per match). Muller won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Passaro won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Muller | Passaro |
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Won | 5 | 13 |
Converted | 5/9 | 13/27 |
% Converted | 56% | 48% |
Conceded | 3 | 11 |
Saved | 1 | 8 |
% Saved | 33% | 73% |
Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
The French player broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Muller surrendered his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Francesco broke his opponents 13 times with a 48% conversion rate. Francesco conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.
Muller | |||
R1 Miedler |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 60-45 | 60-45 | |
Total points | 105 | 105 | |
Winners | 26 | 26 | |
%Winners | 43% | 43% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 34/47 | 34/47 | |
% 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
% 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
% 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Passaro | |||||
Q1 Gulbis |
Q3 Perchicot |
R1 Gojo |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-2 6-0 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 14 | 18 | 51 | |
pts | 78-58 | 56-26 | 71-51 | 205-135 | |
Total points | 136 | 82 | 122 | 340 | |
Winners | 21 | 21 | 29 | 71 | |
%Winners | 27% | 38% | 41% | 35% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 4 | 7 | 3 | 14 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
1st in | 27/55 | 23/42 | 42/68 | 92/165 | |
% 1st in | 49% | 55% | 62% | 56% | |
1st pts | 21/27 | 21/23 | 29/42 | 71/92 | |
% 1st pts | 78% | 91% | 69% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 20/28 | 10/19 | 13/26 | 43/73 | |
% 2nd pts | 71% | 53% | 50% | 59% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | |
Converted | 3/10 | 5/5 | 5/12 | 13/27 | |
Converted % | 30% | 100% | 42% | 48% | |
Conceded | 6 | 0 | 5 | 11 | |
Saved | 5/6 | 0/0 | 3/5 | 8 | |
Saved % | 83% | – | 60% | 143% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Sanremo Challenger
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Borna GojoGojo (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Jelle SelsSels (7-5 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Robin HaaseHaase (7-5 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Flavio Cobolli/Matteo GiganteCobolli/Matteo Gigante – Karol Drzewiecki/Piotr MatuszewskiDrzewiecki/Piotr Matuszewski (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Matteo DonatiDonati (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Valentin VacherotVacherot (6-1 6-75 7-62) – See score progression
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-3 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Gianluca MagerMager – Francesco FortiForti (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Flavio CobolliCobolli (2-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Evgenii TiurnevTiurnev (6-3 7-612) – See score progression
- Nerman FaticFatic – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Valentin VacherotVacherot (6-1 6-7(5) 7-6(2)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Alexey VatutinVatutin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Gianluca MagerMager (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Francesco PassaroPassaro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction