Francesco Passaro and Alessandro Giannessi will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Cagliari Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on CENTRALE. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesco Passaro who should win in 3 sets.
Francesco Passaro -> 1.48
Alessandro Giannessi -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Francesco Passaro vs. Alessandro Giannessi
There is no head to head record between Francesco Passaro and Alessandro Giannessi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Francesco Passaro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-26 | 8-5 | 23-14 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-25 | 4-5 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-35 | 8-11 | 18-20 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-28 | 12-6 | 35-18 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-27 | 4-5 | 39-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 120, Francesco will start his run in the Cagliari Challenger after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 3-6 7-6(4) 6-2 to Paire in the qualifications on the 24th of April.
Francesco has an overall 13-14 win-loss record in 2023, 5-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Passaro’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Madrid Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Passaro has an overall 120-86 record. He has a positive 94-59 record on clay.
Previously in the Cagliari Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 246, the Italian got to the 1st
round after defeating Alexander Erler 7-5 6-1.In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Erler (7-5 6-1). During the match Giannessi scored 74 points vs Erler’s 53. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Giannessi scored 5 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alessandro Giannessi was quite effective on serve to win 72% (33/46) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Giannessi broke Erler 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Zadar Challenger where he beat Sebastian Ofner in the final 6-4 5-7 7-6(6).
Alessandro has a composed 20-12 win-loss record in 2023, 18-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Cagliari Challenger
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (7-60 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (2-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taro DanielDaniel – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-1 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander Erler/Lucas MiedlerErler/Lucas Miedler – Nikola Cacic/Aleksandr NedovyesovCacic/Aleksandr Nedovyesov (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Francesco PassaroPassaro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steven DiezDiez – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Taro DanielDaniel (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (0-0) – H2H and prediction