Gilles Simon and Francesco Maestrelli will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Verona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.5
Gilles Simon -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Gilles Simon vs. Francesco Maestrelli
There is no head to head record between Gilles Simon and Francesco Maestrelli since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Gilles Simon
17 - 21win/loss
143
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LWWWWLLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25-29 | 7-6 | 4-10 | 11-10 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-24 | 2-4 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 4-4 | 1-5 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 28-27 | 8-11 | 5-5 | 7-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 35-26 | 8-7 | 10-8 | 13-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 177, Gilles will start his run in the Verona Challenger after he played his last match in the Salzburg Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Neumayer in the 1st round on the 5th of July.
The French player has a compiled 17-20 win-loss record in 2022, 4-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Gilles has an overall 663-488 record. He has a positive 196-150 record on clay.
Previously in the Verona Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Maestrelli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46-29 | 9-7 | 28-18 | 9-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-36 | 11-7 | 21-23 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-38 | 9-10 | 16-24 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-24 | 5-4 | 34-12 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-18 | 8-3 | 18-12 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 337 (career-high), Maestrelli reached the 1st round after defeating Daniele Capecchi 6-4 6-2 and Alexey Vatutin 2-6 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications against Vatutin, Maestrelli recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Maestrelli scored 84 points vs Vatutin’s 70. Francesco was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Maestrelli bagged 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Francesco Maestrelli lost the serve 4 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Maestrelli put 53% of his first serves in, winning 67% (28/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (20/38) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Vatutin 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Francesco started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Maestrelli’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and the Francavilla Challenger.
Maestrelli has an overall 31-14 win-loss record in 2022, 26-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
WWWWWLWLWW Tennis Scores in Verona Challenger
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gilles SimonSimon – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Sebastian OfnerOfner (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Gianluca MagerMager (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Pedro Boscardin DiasBoscardin Dias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Filip HoranskyHoransky (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Norbert GombosGombos (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
