Alessandro Giannessi and Stefano Napolitano will face off in the 1st round of the Trieste Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTRAL COURT GIORGI. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefano Napolitano who should win in 3 sets.
Stefano Napolitano -> 1.53
Alessandro Giannessi -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Alessandro Giannessi vs. Stefano Napolitano
This will be the 4th time that Alessandro Giannessi and Stefano Napolitano play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Giannessi (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Giannessi won 6-0 6-2 in the 1st round in the Gran Canaria 1 Challenger back in 2021.
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. 235, Alessandro will start his run in the Trieste Challenger after he played his last match in the Milan Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Onclin in the 2nd round on the 5th of July.
Alessandro has a compiled 28-20 win-loss record in 2023, 26-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Zadar Challenger where he overcame Sebastian Ofner in the final 6-4 5-7 7-6(6).
Talking about his overall career, Alessandro has an overall 439-377 record. He has a positive 382-298 record on clay.
Previously in the Trieste Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Stefano Napolitano
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-19 | 2-5 | 12-10 | 5-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-17 | 10-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-23 | 9-6 | 38-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 1-1 | 20-15 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-17 | 1-2 | 1-9 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 348, Napolitano got to the 1st round after defeating Niccolo Ciavarella 6-0 6-3 and Gonzalo Villanueva 6-75 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications against Villanueva, Napolitano recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-2 6-3). During the match Napolitano scored 105 points vs Villanueva’s 87. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Napolitano recorded 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Stefano Napolitano was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (45/62) of his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Villanueva 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian 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.
Napolitano’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Frascati and M25 Biella.
Napolitano has an overall 33-13 win-loss record in 2023, 27-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Trieste Challenger
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – Tomas Barrios VeraBarrios Vera (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Hugo GastonGaston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement TaburTabur – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-1) – H2H and prediction