Giovanni Fonio and Cezar Cretu will square off in the 1st round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 3 sets.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.55
Cezar Cretu -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Giovanni Fonio vs. Cezar Cretu
This will be the 2nd time that Giovanni Fonio and Cezar Cretu square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Fonio (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Fonio won 6-1 6-4 in the final in M15 Antalya back in 2022.
Giovanni Fonio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-24 | 6-3 | 27-19 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-33 | 12-8 | 24-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-39 | 22-12 | 28-26 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 0-0 | 40-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 305, Fonio will start his run in the Sibiu Challenger after he played his last match in the Genova Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 4-6 6-3 to Agamenone in the 1st round on the 4th of September.
Giovanni has an aggregate 38-28 win-loss record in 2023, 21-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Fonio’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,M25 Loule and the Todi Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Fonio has an overall 252-173 record. He has a positive 194-135 record on clay.
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Cezar Cretu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52-26 | 5-2 | 46-22 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-26 | 4-5 | 46-21 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-22 | 13-9 | 42-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-19 | 0-3 | 41-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 355, will start his run in the Sibiu Challenger after he played his last match in 3 where he overcame 6-4 6-4 to Wu in the Rubber 4 on the 16th of September.
Cezar has an overall 47-16 win-loss record in 2023, 42-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Romanian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Bucharest,M25 Pitesti and M15 Constanta.
The Romanian won his last 6 matches.
In terms of his career, The Romanian has an overall 184-78 record. He has a positive 165-66 record on clay.
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Cezar has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Sibiu Challenger
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Sebastian GimaGima (7-62 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Clement TaburTabur (6-1 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Carlos TabernerTaberner (7-64 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Steven DiezDiez (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Flavio CobolliCobolli (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Mate ValkuszValkusz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander WeisWeis – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vlad Andrei DancuAndrei Dancu – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-0) – H2H and prediction