Andrea Pellegrino and Francesco Forti will face off in the 1st round of the Rome Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. 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 Andrea Pellegrino who should win in 3 sets.
Andrea Pellegrino -> 1.43
Francesco Forti -> 2.67
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Prediction and head to head Andrea Pellegrino vs. Francesco Forti
This will be the 2nd time that Andrea Pellegrino and Francesco Forti clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pellegrino (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Pellegrino won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in the Como Challenger back in 2019.
Andrea Pellegrino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-24 | 0-2 | 37-18 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-30 | 0-2 | 24-26 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-29 | 2-2 | 28-26 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-28 | 0-3 | 27-20 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-29 | 2-3 | 22-23 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 170, the Italian will start his run in the Rome Challenger after he played his last match in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi Challenger where he lost 6-1 4-6 6-4 to Misolic in the quarter on the 21st of April.
The Italian has a composed 9-10 win-loss record in 2023, 7-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Andrea has an overall 233-208 record. He has a positive 191-146 record on clay.
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2021. See his history.
Francesco Forti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-19 | 0-3 | 30-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 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 |
Ranked no. 357, Forti reached the 1st round after beating Nicolas Barrientos 6-3 6-1 and Denis Istomin 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Francesco had a good straight sets win against Istomin (6-1 6-3). During the match Forti scored 62 points vs Istomin’s 44. Francesco was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Forti managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Francesco Forti lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Forti put 72% of his first serves in, winning 68% (26/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the 2nd serve. Francesco broke Istomin 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Forti started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
The Italian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Monastir.
Forti has an aggregate 19-10 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Rome Challenger
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (7-63 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Michael GeertsGeerts (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriele PirainoPiraino – Nerman FaticFatic (5-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (7-610 4-6 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Gianluca MagerMager (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Skander MansouriMansouri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Francesco FortiForti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alexander WeisWeis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Jelle SelsSels (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max HoukesHoukes – Valentin VacherotVacherot (0-1) – H2H and prediction