Giulio Zeppieri and Cezar Cretu will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Como Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 2 sets.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.115
Cezar Cretu -> 5.6
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Prediction and head to head Giulio Zeppieri vs. Cezar Cretu
There is no head to head record between Giulio Zeppieri and Cezar Cretu since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Giulio Zeppieri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-25 | 17-9 | 13-11 | 9-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-18 | 8-4 | 7-10 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-26 | 7-5 | 19-13 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-31 | 1-2 | 25-22 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 0-0 | 26-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 178, Giulio will start his run in the Como Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 1-6 6-3 6-4 to Grenier in the qualifications on the 23rd of August.
The Italian has an overall 22-22 win-loss record in 2022, 20-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Giulio’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Umag.
Talking about his overall career, Zeppieri has an overall 90-76 record. He has a positive 84-60 record on clay.
Previously in the Como Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2021. See his history.
Cezar Cretu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51-24 | 5-2 | 45-20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-26 | 4-5 | 46-21 | 2-0 | 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 |
Ranked no. 401 (career-high), the Romanian got to the 1st round after beating Lukas Neumayer 1-6 6-4 6-3 and Francesco Forti 6-3 3-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Cretu defeated Forti (6-3 3-6 6-2). During the match Cretu scored 81 points vs Forti’s 76. The Romanian was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Cretu managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Cezar Cretu was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (37/52) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Cretu broke Forti 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cezar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 50% of the points he played.
Cretu’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Cairo,M15 Bucharest and M15 Craiova.
Cretu has an aggregate 44-17 win-loss record in 2022, 44-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Como Challenger
Cretu has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Como Challenger
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (2-6 7-62 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Mirza BasicBasic (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (6-74 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marius CopilCopil – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Nerman FaticFatic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Lucas GerchGerch (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Francesco PassaroPassaro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction