Marco Cecchinato and Timo Stodder will square off in the 2nd round of the Luedenscheid Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marco Cecchinato who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marco Cecchinato is the pick to win this match.
Marco Cecchinato -> 1.29
Timo Stodder -> 3.6
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Prediction and head to head Marco Cecchinato vs. Timo Stodder
There is no head to head record between Marco Cecchinato and Timo Stodder since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Marco Cecchinato
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-20 | 0-2 | 22-18 | 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 |
| 2021 | 32-27 | 1-5 | 31-19 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 25-17 | 1-4 | 22-11 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 166, the Italian reached the 2nd round after defeating Nicholas David Ionel 6-0 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against David Ionel (6-0 6-0). During the match, Cecchinato scored 48 points vs David Ionel’s 16. Marco was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cecchinato blasted 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Marco Cecchinato was extremely effective on serve to win 90% (19/21) of his 1st serve and 56% (5/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break David Ionel 6 times.
Cecchinato has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (360-257). 9-14 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cecchinato has an overall 320-176 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Cecchinato’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Parma Challenger.
The Italian has an aggregate 9-17 win-loss record in 2022, 9-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Luedenscheid Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Timo Stodder
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 7-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-34 | 0-1 | 40-31 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 62-24 | 0-0 | 62-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-15 | 4-4 | 29-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-5 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 433, the German got to the 2nd round after defeating Lambert Ruland 4-6 6-3 6-4, Damien Wenger 6-3 7-66 and Georgii Kravchenko 6-74 7-64 6-2.
In the 1st round against Kravchenko, Stodder recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 7-64 6-2). During the match Stodder scored 112 points vs Kravchenko’s 101. The German was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Stodder fired 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Timo Stodder was very efficient on serve to win 73% (43/59) of his 1st serve and 59% (27/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Stodder broke Kravchenko 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Timo’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Weston,M15 Antalya and M15 Bytom.
The German has an aggregate 29-12 win-loss record in 2022, 29-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cecchinato | Stodder |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 12 | 85 |
| Pts | 48-16 | 291-259 |
| Total Points | 64 | 550 |
| Winners | 19 | 107 |
| %Winners | 40% | 37% |
Cecchinato played 1 match while Stodder competed in 3 matches. Stodder started his run from the qualifications while Cecchinato had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Timo Stodder conceded 2 sets while Marco Cecchinato hasn’t lost a set so far. Cecchinato has played 6 set(s) less than Stodder (2 vs 8). Therefore, Cecchinato played 73 games less than Stodder. Cecchinato scored 19 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Timo fired 107 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cecchinato | Stodder |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1.3 |
| 1st in | 21/30 | 166/278 |
| %1st in | 70% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 107/166 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 72/112 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 64% |
Cecchinato bagged 2 aces . Stodder recorded 4 aces (1.3 per match). Cecchinato won 90% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Stodder won 64% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cecchinato | Stodder |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 13 |
| Converted | 6/6 | 13/31 |
| % Converted | 100% | 42% |
| Conceded | 0 | 21 |
| Saved | 0 | 12 |
| % Saved | 0% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 9 |
The Italian broke his opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. Marco was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Stodder broke his opponents 13 times with a 42% conversion rate. Stodder conceded his serve 9 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cecchinato | |||
| R1 David |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 12 | |
| pts | 48-16 | 48-16 | |
| Total points | 64 | 64 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 21/30 | 21/30 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 19/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/6 | 6/6 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Stodder | |||||
| Q1 Ruland |
Q3 Wenger |
R1 Kravchenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 6-4 | 6-3 7-66 | 6-74 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 22 | 34 | 85 | |
| pts | 98-87 | 81-71 | 112-101 | 291-259 | |
| Total points | 185 | 152 | 213 | 550 | |
| Winners | 34 | 30 | 43 | 107 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 37% | 38% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 52/91 | 55/82 | 59/105 | 166/278 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 67% | 56% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 34/52 | 30/55 | 43/59 | 107/166 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 55% | 73% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/39 | 19/27 | 27/46 | 72/112 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 70% | 59% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 4/7 | 5/8 | 13/31 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 57% | 63% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 7 | 6 | 21 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 4/7 | 3/6 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 57% | 50% | 170% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
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