Juan Pablo Ficovich and Yibing Wu will face off in the semifinal of the Rome Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 4:00 pm on COURT 4. 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 Yibing Wu who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yibing Wu is the pick to win this match.
Yibing Wu -> 1.42
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 2.875

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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Yibing Wu

This will be the 2nd time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Yibing Wu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pablo Ficovich (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Pablo Ficovich won 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in Italy F12 (Napoli) back in 2017.

Juan Pablo Ficovich

Juan Pablo Ficovich

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Rank
164
High
125
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 34-33 11-9 21-21 0-1 2-2 0-0
2024 41-33 5-7 36-22 0-3 0-1 0-0
2023 27-33 15-13 11-18 0-1 1-1 0-0
2022 32-32 6-11 23-15 3-6 0-0 0-0
2021 16-16 2-3 14-12 0-0 0-1 0-0
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Ranked no. 139 (career-high), Pablo Ficovich reached the semifinal after defeating Aidan Mchugh 6-2 6-2, Roberto Quiroz w/o and Bjorn Fratangelo 6-4 7-65.

In the quarter, Juan had a good straight sets win against Fratangelo (6-4 7-65). During the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 79 points vs Fratangelo’s 69. Juan was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about the service games, Pablo Ficovich fired 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was very effective on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 58% (19/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Juan broke Fratangelo 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Pablo Ficovich hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.

Pablo Ficovich has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (300-207). 2-2 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Pablo Ficovich has an overall5-5 match record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

The Argentine’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Aguascalientes Challenger and the Bogota Challenger.

Juan has a compiled 27-18 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Rome Challenger

Pablo Ficovich has never competed in this tournament before.

Rome Challenger
Pablo Ficovich's Record

Yibing Wu

Yibing Wu

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Rank
181
High
54
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-10 23-8 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 9-5 7-4 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 18-17 5-7 3-5 9-1 1-4 0-0
2022 40-7 20-5 10-2 10-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 329, Wu reached the semifinal after defeating Malek Jaziri 6-4 4-0 ret., Ulises Blanch 6-3 6-4 and Jeff Wolf 6-4 6-1.

In the quarter, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Wolf (6-4 6-1). During the match Wu scored 59 points vs Wolf’s 41. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

About the serving games, Wu recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yibing Wu lost the serve once. Furthermore, Wu put 68% of his first serves in, winning 62% (21/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the 2nd serve. Yibing broke Wolf 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chinese hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Wu’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Orange Park and the Orlando Challenger.

Yibing has an overall 23-4 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Rome Challenger
Wu's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

J.Pablo Ficovich
Y.Wu
3h:06
3h:06
Time on court​
3h:53
3h:53
1h:41
1h:41
Last match​
1h:11
1h:11
2
2
Match played
!
3
3
39
39
Games Played​
50
50
4
4
Set played​​
7
7
142
142
Total points​
185
185
71
71
Avg point​
61.7
61.7
52
52
Winners
64
64
26
26
Avg Winners​
21.3
21.3
37%
37%
Ratio winners
35%
35%
-- Serve --
12
12
Aces
6
6
6
6
Avg Aces
2
2
4
4
Double Faults
1
1
2
2
Avg Double Faults
0.3
0.3
52/67
52/67
1st won total​
64/86
64/86
!
78%
78%
1st won %
!
74%
74%
31/52
31/52
2nd won total​
39/53
39/53
60%
60%
2nd won %
!
74%
74%
-- Break Points --
7/15
7/15
BP won
10/24
10/24
3.5/7.5
3.5/7.5
Avg BP won
3.3/8
3.3/8
47%
47%
Won
42%
42%
8
8
Conceded
5
5
4
4
Avg Conceded
1.7
1.7
2
2
Broken
2
2
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0.7
0.7
6
6
Saved
3
3
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Pablo Ficovich Wu
Match played 2 3
Tot Set 4 7
Tot Games 39 50
Pts 142-106 185-126
Total Points 248 311
Winners 52 64
%Winners 37% 35%

Pablo Ficovich played 2 matches while Wu competed in 3 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Pablo Ficovich has played 3 set(s) less than Wu (4 vs 7). Therefore, Pablo Ficovich played 11 games less than Wu. The Argentine scored 52 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Wu struck 64 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve Pablo Ficovich Wu
Aces 12 6
Avg per match 6 2
1st in 67/119 86/139
%1st in 56% 62%
1st pts 52/67 64/86
%1st pts 78% 74%
2nd pts 31/52 39/53
%2nd pts 60% 74%

Pablo Ficovich scored 12 aces (6 per match). Wu recorded 6 aces (2 per match). Pablo Ficovich won 78% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Wu won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Pablo Ficovich Wu
Won 7 10
Converted 7/15 10/24
% Converted 47% 42%
Conceded 8 5
Saved 6 3
% Saved 75% 60%
Times Broken 2 2

Juan broke his opponents 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. Pablo Ficovich conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Wu broke his opponents 10 times with a 42% conversion rate. Yibing conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Pablo Ficovich
R1
Mchugh 		R2
Quiroz		 1/4
Fratangelo		 Total
Score 6-2 6-2 w/o 6-4 7-65
Tot Set 2 – 2 4
Tot Games 16 – 23 39
pts 63-37 – 79-69 142-106
Total points 100 – 148 248
Winners 22 – 30 52
%Winners 35% – 38% 37%
SERVE
Aces 5 – 7 12
Double Faults 3 – 1 4
1st in 26/45 – 41/74 67/119
% 1st in 58% – 55% 56%
1st pts 22/26 – 30/41 52/67
% 1st pts 85% – 73% 78%
2nd pts 12/19 – 19/33 31/52
% 2nd pts 63% – 58% 60%
Breaks
Won 4 – 3 7
Converted 4/8 – 3/7 7/15
Converted % 50% – 43% 47%
Conceded 2 – 6 8
Saved 2/2 – 4/6 6
Saved % 100% – 67% 56%
Times Broken 0 – 2 2
Wu
R1
Jaziri		 R2
Blanch		 1/4
Wolf		 Total
Score 6-4 4-0 ret. 6-3 6-4 6-4 6-1
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 14 19 17 50
pts 57-37 69-48 59-41 185-126
Total points 94 117 100 311
Winners 16 27 21 64
%Winners 28% 39% 36% 35%
SERVE
Aces 2 2 2 6
Double Faults 0 0 1 1
1st in 21/39 31/50 34/50 86/139
% 1st in 54% 62% 68% 62%
1st pts 16/21 27/31 21/34 64/86
% 1st pts 76% 87% 62% 74%
2nd pts 13/18 13/19 13/16 39/53
% 2nd pts 72% 68% 81% 74%
Breaks
Won 4 2 4 10
Converted 4/9 2/6 4/9 10/24
Converted % 44% 33% 44% 42%
Conceded 4 0 1 5
Saved 3/4 0/0 0/1 3
Saved % 75% – 0% 25%
Times Broken 1 0 1 2

Tennis Scores in Rome Challenger

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