Flavio Cobolli and Federico Gaio will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Milan Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Flavio Cobolli who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Flavio Cobolli is the pick to win this match.
Flavio Cobolli -> 1.61
Federico Gaio -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Flavio Cobolli vs. Federico Gaio
This will be the 3rd time that Flavio Cobolli and Federico Gaio clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Cobolli and Gaio (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Cobolli won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 2 Challenger back in 2022.
Flavio Cobolli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-18 | 14-7 | 8-7 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-36 | 10-6 | 43-23 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 6-4 | 24-21 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-30 | 5-4 | 39-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-8 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 150, Cobolli got to the 2nd round after beating Michael Vrbensky 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, Flavio had a good straight sets win against Vrbensky (6-4 6-0). During the match, Cobolli scored 55 points vs Vrbensky’s 33. Flavio was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cobolli blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Flavio Cobolli was very efficient on serve to win 75% (18/24) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cobolli broke Vrbensky 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Cobolli has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 55% of his matches (117-95). 22-13 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Cobolli has an aggregate91-63 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.
Flavio’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Zadar Challenger and the Rome Challenger.
The Italian has an aggregate 26-18 win-loss record in 2023, 22-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Milan Challenger
Cobolli has never competed in this tournament before.
Federico Gaio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-15 | 2-7 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-30 | 14-12 | 25-15 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-28 | 9-9 | 8-15 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-38 | 6-8 | 14-16 | 13-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-19 | 5-4 | 10-12 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 222, the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Maximilian Neuchrist 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Neuchrist (6-2 6-4). During the match Gaio scored 56 points vs Neuchrist’s 48. Federico was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Gaio made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Federico Gaio was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (18/24) of his 1st serve and 65% (20/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gaio was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Neuchrist 3 times.
The Italian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Monastir,M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio and the Turin Challenger.
Federico has a compiled 35-18 win-loss record in 2023, 24-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cobolli | Gaio |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 |
| Pts | 55-33 | 56-48 |
| Total Points | 88 | 104 |
| Winners | 18 | 18 |
| %Winners | 33% | 32% |
Both Cobolli and Gaio played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cobolli and Gaio have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cobolli played 2 games less than Gaio. Cobolli scored 18 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Federico managed to score 18 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cobolli | Gaio |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 2 |
| 1st in | 24/42 | 24/55 |
| %1st in | 57% | 44% |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 18/24 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 20/31 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 65% |
Cobolli blasted 3 aces . Gaio made 2 aces . Cobolli won 75% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Gaio won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cobolli | Gaio |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 71% | 100% |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Flavio broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Cobolli conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Gaio was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Cobolli | |||
| R1 Vrbensky |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 55-33 | 55-33 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 24/42 | 24/42 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 18/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gaio | |||
| R1 Neuchrist |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 56-48 | 56-48 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/55 | 24/55 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 44% | |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 18/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/31 | 20/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLLWWWW Tennis Scores in Milan Challenger
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Cristian GarinGarin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Gonzalo BuenoBueno – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-2 4-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Alexander WeisWeis – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Lautaro MidonMidon – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-1 5-7 6-0) – See score progression
- Francesco FortiForti – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-3 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Francesco PassaroPassaro (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Luca NardiNardi – Marcello SerafiniSerafini (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Federico IannacconeIannaccone – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-1 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Giovanni OradiniOradini – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (6-2 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Federico GaioGaio – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Gianmarco FerrariFerrari (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Federico GaioGaio – Flavio CobolliCobolli (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Federico IannacconeIannaccone (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Pablo CuevasCuevas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
