Salvatore Caruso and Giovanni Fonio will face off in the 1st round of the Francavilla Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 3 sets.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.666
Salvatore Caruso -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Giovanni Fonio
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Giovanni Fonio since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 8-9 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 286, Salvatore will start his run in the Francavilla Challenger after he played his last match in the Cagliari Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 6-3 to Mager in the qualifications on the 2nd of May.
Caruso has an overall 16-14 win-loss record in 2023, 11-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Italian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Manama Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Salvatore has an overall 365-300 record. He has a positive 216-162 record on clay.
Previously in the Francavilla Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Giovanni Fonio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-24 | 6-3 | 27-19 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-33 | 12-8 | 24-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-39 | 22-12 | 28-26 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 0-0 | 40-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 291 (career-high), Fonio got to the 1st round after defeating Andrea Picchione 6-3 7-5 and Alexander Weis 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Weis (6-1 6-2). During the match Fonio scored 53 points vs Weis’s 28. Fonio was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Fonio fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Giovanni Fonio was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (20/28) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Fonio broke Weis 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Giovanni started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 60% of the points he played.
Fonio’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and M25 Loule.
The Italian has a composed 27-13 win-loss record in 2023, 10-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Francavilla Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Francavilla Challenger
- Gianluca MagerMager – Gabriele PirainoPiraino (7-62 5-7 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Raphael CollignonCollignon – Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Giovanni FonioFonio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elmar EjupovicEjupovic – Moez EcharguiEchargui (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Renzo OlivoOlivo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Edoardo LavagnoLavagno – Jesper De JongDe Jong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-0) – H2H and prediction