Francesco Passaro and Nicholas David Ionel will face off in the 2nd round of the Vicenza Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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.
As per the initial odds, Francesco Passaro is the pick to win this match.
Francesco Passaro -> 1.58
Nicholas David Ionel -> 2.27
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Prediction and head to head Francesco Passaro vs. Nicholas David Ionel
This will be the 2nd time that Francesco Passaro and Nicholas David Ionel play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Passaro (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Passaro won 6-0 6-4 in the 1st round in the Milan Challenger back in 2022.
Francesco Passaro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-23 | 4-5 | 31-17 | 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 |
| 2020 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128, the Italian reached the 2nd round after defeating Maximilian Neuchrist 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, Passaro had a good straight sets win against Neuchrist (7-5 6-3). During the match, Passaro scored 67 points vs Neuchrist’s 53. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Passaro wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Francesco Passaro was very effective on serve to win 72% (33/46) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Francesco was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Neuchrist 3 times.
Passaro has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 57% of his matches (121-90). 6-8 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Passaro has an overall95-63 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Madrid Challenger.
Francesco has a compiled 14-18 win-loss record in 2023, 6-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Vicenza Challenger
Nicholas David Ionel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56-30 | 0-2 | 56-27 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-38 | 7-7 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-33 | 17-9 | 48-20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-33 | 14-4 | 33-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 16-8 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 196 (career-high), David reached the 2nd round after defeating Nerman Fatic 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Nicholas had a good straight sets win against Fatic (6-4 6-4). During the match David scored 67 points vs Fatic’s 55. Nicholas was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, David wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nicholas David Ionel lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, David put 84% of his first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (3/8) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Fatic 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
The Romanian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Jakarta and Larnaca.
Nicholas has a composed 29-17 win-loss record in 2023, 22-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Vicenza Challenger
Nicholas has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Passaro | David |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 20 |
| Pts | 67-53 | 67-55 |
| Total Points | 120 | 122 |
| Winners | 33 | 29 |
| %Winners | 49% | 43% |
Both Passaro and David played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Passaro and David have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Passaro played 1 game more than David. The Italian scored 33 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Nicholas blasted 29 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Passaro | David |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 46/63 | 43/51 |
| %1st in | 73% | 84% |
| 1st pts | 33/46 | 29/43 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 3/8 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 38% |
Passaro didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. David also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Passaro won 72% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, David won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Passaro | David |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Passaro lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Nicholas broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. David conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Passaro | |||
| R1 Neuchrist |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 67-53 | 67-53 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 46/63 | 46/63 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 33/46 | 33/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| David | |||
| R1 Fatic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 67-55 | 67-55 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 43/51 | 43/51 | |
| % 1st in | 84% | 84% | |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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