Samuel Vincent Ruggeri and Giovanni Fonio will square off in the qualifications of the Milan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 2 sets.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.41
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri -> 2.82
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Prediction and head to head Samuel Vincent Ruggeri vs. Giovanni Fonio
There is no head to head record between Samuel Vincent Ruggeri and Giovanni Fonio since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-15 | 0-1 | 3-9 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-33 | 12-6 | 26-21 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-29 | 25-11 | 22-14 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-28 | 29-10 | 26-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-24 | 18-13 | 15-9 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 404 (career-high), Vincent Ruggeri reached the qualifications after defeating Grigoriy Lomakin 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Samuel had a good straight sets win against Lomakin (6-3 6-2). During the match, Vincent Ruggeri scored 58 points vs Lomakin’s 41. Vincent Ruggeri was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Vincent Ruggeri fired 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (24/29) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Samuel broke Lomakin 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Vincent Ruggeri has a solid record in the last 3 years having won 65% of his matches (74-39). 17-7 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Vincent Ruggeri has an overall32-16 match record in the last 3 years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Ulcinj and M25 Ulcinj.
The Italian has a composed 37-15 win-loss record in 2022, 17-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Milan Challenger
Samuel 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. 460, Giovanni got to the qualifications after beating Simone Roncalli 4-6 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications against Roncalli, Fonio recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-5). During the match Fonio scored 101 points vs Roncalli’s 89. Fonio was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Fonio bagged 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Giovanni Fonio lost the serve 5 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Fonio put 59% of his first serves in, winning 65% (33/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (19/36) on the 2nd serve. Fonio broke Roncalli 7 times after converting 50% of his break points (7/14).
Fonio’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya.
Fonio has an overall 17-15 win-loss record in 2022, 17-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vincent Ruggeri | Fonio |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 30 |
| Pts | 58-41 | 101-89 |
| Total Points | 99 | 190 |
| Winners | 24 | 33 |
| %Winners | 41% | 33% |
Both Vincent Ruggeri and Fonio played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Giovanni Fonio lost 1 set while Samuel Vincent Ruggeri hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Vincent Ruggeri has played 1 set(s) less than Fonio (2 vs 3). Therefore, Vincent Ruggeri played 13 games less than Fonio. Vincent Ruggeri scored 24 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 33 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vincent Ruggeri | Fonio |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 51/87 |
| %1st in | 58% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 24/29 | 33/51 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 19/36 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 53% |
Vincent Ruggeri recorded 3 aces . Fonio blasted 6 aces . Vincent Ruggeri won 83% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Fonio won 65% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vincent Ruggeri | Fonio |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 7 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 7/14 |
| % Converted | 60% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 55% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Samuel broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Samuel very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Giovanni broke his opponent 7 times with a 50% conversion rate. Fonio conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded.
| Vincent Ruggeri | |||
| Q1 Lomakin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 58-41 | 58-41 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 29/50 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 24/29 | 24/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Fonio | |||
| Q1 Roncalli | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 101-89 | 101-89 | |
| Total points | 190 | 190 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 51/87 | 51/87 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/36 | 19/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 6/11 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 55% | 55% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
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