Alexander Bublik and Pedro Martinez Portero will square off in the 1st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on PIETRANGELI. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pedro Martinez Portero who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Pedro Martinez Portero is the pick to win this match.
Pedro Martinez Portero -> 1.57
Alexander Bublik -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Alexander Bublik vs. Pedro Martinez Portero

This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Bublik and Pedro Martinez Portero play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Martinez Portero (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Martinez Portero won 6-3 6-0 in the 1st round in Estoril back in 2021.

Alexander Bublik

Alexander Bublik

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Rank
11
High
11
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 48-24 12-11 23-6 8-6 5-1 0-0
2024 25-25 10-11 5-6 6-4 4-4 0-0
2023 28-30 3-12 7-9 9-7 9-2 0-0
2022 33-27 5-8 2-6 17-8 9-5 0-0
2021 35-30 14-12 4-6 10-8 7-4 0-0

Ranked no. 49, Alexander will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in the Aix En Provence Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-1 to Mayot in the quarter on the 5th of May.

Bublik has an aggregate 9-17 win-loss record in 2023, 3-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Alexander’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Marseille.

Talking about his overall career, Alexander has an overall 307-225 record. He has a negative 48-50 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020, 2021 and 2022. See his history.

Rome
Bublik's Record

Pedro Martinez Portero

Pedro Martinez Portero

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Rank
95
High
36
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 16-34 4-11 7-15 3-5 2-3 0-0
2024 36-31 7-9 27-13 2-6 0-3 0-0
2023 44-35 6-9 33-25 5-0 0-1 0-0
2022 21-30 7-12 13-13 0-2 1-3 0-0
2021 32-25 4-5 21-13 5-5 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 142, Martinez Portero got to the 1st round after beating Andrea Vavassori 6-2 5-7 6-2 and Francesco Maestrelli 6-0 6-2.

In the qualifications, Martinez Portero had a good straight sets win against Maestrelli (6-0 6-2). During the match Martinez Portero scored 55 points vs Maestrelli’s 24. Pedro was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Martinez Portero struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Pedro Martinez Portero was very effective on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Spaniard broke Maestrelli 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Martinez Portero started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Martinez Portero’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Girona Challenger.

Martinez Portero has a composed 9-15 win-loss record in 2023, 6-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.

Rome
Martinez Portero's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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