Francisco Cerundolo and Pedro Sousa will square off in the 1st round of the Nordea Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.3
Pedro Sousa -> 3.66
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Pedro Sousa
This will be the 2nd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Pedro Sousa fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cerundolo (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Cerundolo won 4-6 6-3 7-6(4) in the final in the Split Challenger back in 2020.
Francisco Cerundolo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-25 | 12-8 | 21-11 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-31 | 5-10 | 21-13 | 9-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-26 | 10-10 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 7-8 | 25-10 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-24 | 3-2 | 39-21 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 39 (career-high), Francisco will start his run in Bastad after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-4 6-3 3-6 6-4 to Nadal in the 1st round on the 28th of June.
The Argentine has an overall 25-17 win-loss record in 2022, 17-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Francisco’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Francisco has an overall 228-99 record. He has a positive 207-84 record on clay.
Previously in Bastad
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Pedro Sousa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-17 | 1-2 | 12-14 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-17 | 1-5 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-16 | 0-2 | 21-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 35-29 | 0-4 | 35-23 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 430, Pedro got to the 1st round after defeating Facundo Bagnis 6-4 7-63 and Jaume Antoni Munar Clar 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Pedro had a good straight sets win against Munar Clar (6-4 6-4). During the match Sousa scored 69 points vs Munar Clar’s 61. Pedro was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Sousa couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Pedro Sousa lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sousa put 72% of his first serves in, winning 61% (25/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the 2nd serve. Sousa broke Munar Clar 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Portuguese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.
The Portuguese has a compiled 10-9 win-loss record in 2022, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Bastad
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Bastad
- Laslo DjereDjere – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Elias YmerYmer (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Joao SousaSousa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Dominic ThiemThiem (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Pedro SousaSousa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction