Francisco Cerundolo and Luca Van Assche will play each other in the 2nd round of the Nordea Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.33
Luca Van Assche -> 3.32

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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Luca Van Assche

There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Luca Van Assche since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Francisco Cerundolo

Francisco Cerundolo

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Rank
21
High
18
LWWLWLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 38-24 12-8 21-11 5-3 0-2 0-0
2024 35-31 5-10 21-13 9-5 0-3 0-0
2023 39-26 10-10 19-12 4-2 6-2 0-0
2022 36-28 7-8 25-10 3-7 1-3 0-0
2021 44-24 3-2 39-21 0-0 2-1 0-0

Ranked no. 20, the Argentine will start his run in Bastad after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-2 6-2 6-2 to Lehecka in the 2nd round on the 6th of July.

Francisco has an overall 29-17 win-loss record in 2023, 16-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was winning the title in Eastbourne where he overcame Tommy Paul in the final 6-4 1-6 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Francisco has an overall 268-127 record. He has a positive 231-95 record on clay.

Previously in Bastad

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2022. See his history.

Bastad
Cerundolo's Record

Luca Van Assche

Luca Van Assche

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Rank
167
High
63
LWLWWLLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 32-26 7-4 15-12 9-9 1-1 0-0
2024 35-38 15-15 8-10 10-11 2-2 0-0
2023 34-30 1-7 15-11 15-9 3-3 0-0
2022 55-31 0-1 40-20 15-10 0-0 0-0
2021 26-22 3-2 8-7 15-13 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 77, Luca got to the 2nd round after beating Dragos Nicolae Madaras 7-62 6-4.

In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Nicolae Madaras (7-62 6-4). During the match Van scored 74 points vs Nicolae Madaras’s 62. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Van managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Luca Van Assche lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Van put 58% of his first serves in, winning 89% (32/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (8/26) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Nicolae Madaras 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

His best result of the season was winning the title the Pau Challenger where he defeated Ugo Humbert in the final 7-6(5) 4-6 7-6(6) and the Sanremo Challenger where he defeated Juan Pablo Varillas in the final 6-1 6-3.

Van has an aggregate 24-18 win-loss record in 2023, 13-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Bastad

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Bastad
Van's Record

Tennis Scores in Bastad

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