Nicolas Kicker and Alessandro Giannessi will play each other in the 1st round of the Tampere Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 7:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Kicker who should win in 3 sets.
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.74
Alessandro Giannessi -> 2.04
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Kicker vs. Alessandro Giannessi
This will be the 3rd time that Nicolas Kicker and Alessandro Giannessi play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Kicker (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Kicker won 6-2 6-0 in the 1st round in the Perugia Challenger back in 2016.
Nicolas Kicker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52-29 | 2-2 | 50-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-13 | 2-4 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-10 | 1-1 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-28 | 6-6 | 20-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 64-21 | 17-2 | 47-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 188, the Argentine will start his run in the Tampere Challenger after he played his last match in the Amersfoort Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 5-7 6-3 to Lamasine in the 1st round on the 12th of July.
Kicker has an aggregate 12-18 win-loss record in 2022, 9-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Argentine’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Todi Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 296-193 record. He has a positive 269-166 record on clay.
Previously in the Tampere Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2021. See his history.
Alessandro Giannessi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-25 | 0-5 | 13-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-33 | 3-5 | 33-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-30 | 2-1 | 18-28 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 0-2 | 31-20 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-14 | 0-1 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 206, the Italian will start his run in the Tampere Challenger after he played his last match in the Verona Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-3
to Ofner in the 1st round on the 11th of July.The Italian has a compiled 17-19 win-loss record in 2022, 15-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Italian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Oeiras 2 Challenger.
In terms of his career, The Italian has an overall 408-346 record. He has a positive 353-271 record on clay.
Previously in the Tampere Challenger
Alessandro has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Tampere Challenger
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Leo BorgBorg (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evan FurnessFurness – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gerald MelzerMelzer – Mats MoraingMoraing (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas KickerKicker – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrik Niklas-SalminenNiklas-Salminen – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eero VasaVasa – Harold MayotMayot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan FurnessFurness – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luigi SorrentinoSorrentino – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement TaburTabur – Jelle SelsSels (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Filip HoranskyHoransky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (0-0) – H2H and prediction