Cezar Cretu and Francesco Forti will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Como Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesco Forti who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francesco Forti is the pick to win this match.
Francesco Forti -> 1.51
Cezar Cretu -> 2.42
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Prediction and head to head Cezar Cretu vs. Francesco Forti
There is no head to head record between Cezar Cretu and Francesco Forti since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Cezar Cretu
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| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-22 | 13-9 | 42-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-19 | 0-3 | 41-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 14-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 401 (career-high), Cretu got to the qualifications after defeating Lukas Neumayer 1-6 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications against Neumayer, The Romanian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-4 6-3).During the match, Cretu scored less points (3) than Neumayer. In fact, the world no. 401 won 88 points vs Neumayer’s. That means that Cretu was more focused during the important points. Cezar was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cretu struck 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Cezar Cretu lost the serve 6 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Cretu put 57% of his first serves in, winning 64% (35/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 37% (15/41) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Neumayer 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Cretu has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 69% of his matches (120-53). 43-17 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cretu has a composed106-45 record in the last 5 years on clay.
Cretu’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Cairo,M15 Bucharest and M15 Craiova.
Cezar has an overall 43-17 win-loss record in 2022, 43-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Como Challenger
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Forti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-33 | 20-8 | 26-21 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 31-22 | 1-1 | 29-18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-29 | 1-1 | 35-20 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 456, Francesco reached the qualifications after beating Johannes Ingildsen 4-6 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications against Ingildsen, Francesco recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-5). During the match Forti scored 109 points vs Ingildsen’s 101. Forti was pretty aggressive to blast 50 winners.
About the serving games, Forti made 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Francesco Forti lost the serve twice and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Forti put 69% of his first serves in, winning 65% (50/77) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Ingildsen 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Forti’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Casinalbo,M15 Gubbio and M25 Bolzano.
Forti has an aggregate 22-15 win-loss record in 2022, 22-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Como Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018, 2019 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cretu | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 30 |
| Pts | 88-91 | 109-101 |
| Total Points | 179 | 210 |
| Winners | 35 | 50 |
| %Winners | 40% | 46% |
Both Cretu and Forti played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Cezar Cretu conceded 1 set, while Francesco Forti conceded 1 set. Talking about their workload, Cretu and Forti have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Cretu played 4 games less than Forti. Cezar scored 35 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian struck 50 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cretu | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 55/96 | 77/111 |
| %1st in | 57% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 35/55 | 50/77 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 15/41 | 19/34 |
| %2nd pts | 37% | 56% |
Cretu fired 3 aces . Forti struck 6 aces . Cretu won 64% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 37% of the points. On the other side, Forti won 65% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cretu | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 60% | 44% |
| Conceded | 15 | 14 |
| Saved | 9 | 12 |
| % Saved | 60% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 2 |
The Romanian broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Cezar dropped his serve 6 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Francesco broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Francesco conceded his serve twice and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cretu | |||
| Q1 Neumayer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 88-91 | 88-91 | |
| Total points | 179 | 179 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 55/96 | 55/96 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 35/55 | 35/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/41 | 15/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 37% | 37% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 15 | |
| Saved | 9/15 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
| Forti | |||
| Q1 Ingildsen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 109-101 | 109-101 | |
| Total points | 210 | 210 | |
| Winners | 50 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 77/111 | 77/111 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 50/77 | 50/77 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/34 | 19/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 14 | 14 | |
| Saved | 12/14 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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