Ryan Peniston and Francesco Forti will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Olbia Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CAMPO 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ryan Peniston who should win in 2 sets.
Ryan Peniston -> 1.38
Francesco Forti -> 2.875
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Prediction and head to head Ryan Peniston vs. Francesco Forti
This will be the 2nd time that Ryan Peniston and Francesco Forti fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Forti (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Forti won 7-6(2) 7-6(5) in the qualifications in the Lugano Challenger back in 2021.
Ryan Peniston
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-11 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-29 | 20-12 | 1-8 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-26 | 4-8 | 5-4 | 13-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-23 | 25-9 | 12-4 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 189, Peniston will start his run in the Olbia Challenger after he played his last match in the Tiburon Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Schoolkate in the 2nd round on the 5th of October.
The Brit has a compiled 27-25 win-loss record in 2023, 20-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Winnipeg Challenger where he overcame Leandro Riedi in the final 6-4 4-6 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Peniston has an overall 232-142 record. He has a positive 144-70 record on hard.
Previously in the Olbia Challenger
Peniston has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Forti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-33 | 20-8 | 26-21 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 31-22 | 1-1 | 29-18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-29 | 1-1 | 35-20 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 351, Francesco got to the 1st round after beating Andrea Bacaloni 6-1 6-4 and Giovanni Oradini 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Forti had a good straight sets win against Oradini (6-4 6-3). During the match Forti scored 69 points vs Oradini’s 57. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Forti managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Francesco Forti lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Forti put 60% of his first serves in, winning 74% (34/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (14/31) on the 2nd serve. Forti broke Oradini 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Francesco’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Monastir and M25 Pozzuoli.
Forti has an overall 47-29 win-loss record in 2023, 15-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Olbia Challenger
- Marius CopilCopil – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (6-2 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Mats MoraingMoraing (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Vladyslav OrlovOrlov – Maks KasnikowskiKasnikowski (4-6 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Francesco FortiForti – Giovanni OradiniOradini (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Ryan NijboerNijboer (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Andrea PicchionePicchione (6-1 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Ryan NijboerNijboer (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Andrea PicchionePicchione (6-1 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Benoit PairePaire – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Harold MayotMayot (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Alex MolcanMolcan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vladyslav OrlovOrlov – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco FortiForti – Ryan PenistonPeniston (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Joris De LooreDe Loore (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Marius CopilCopil (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Emilio NavaNava (1-0) – H2H and prediction