Federico Gaio and Francesco Forti will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Ortisei Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 6:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Federico Gaio who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Federico Gaio is the pick to win this match.
Federico Gaio -> 1.69
Francesco Forti -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Federico Gaio vs. Francesco Forti
This will be the 3rd time that Federico Gaio and Francesco Forti fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Gaio and Forti (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Gaio won 7-6(4) 7-6(2) in the 1st round in the Montechiarugolo Challenger back in June 2023.
Federico Gaio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-17 | 2-7 | 12-10 | 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. 213, Federico reached the 2nd round after beating Maximilian Neuchrist 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Federico had a good straight sets win against Neuchrist (6-4 6-4). During the match, Gaio scored 61 points vs Neuchrist’s 50. Gaio was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gaio struck 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Federico Gaio was very efficient on serve to win 80% (33/41) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gaio broke Neuchrist twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Gaio has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (362-315). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gaio has a compiled 37-44 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Federico’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Monastir,M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio and the Turin Challenger.
The Italian has a composed 41-28 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ortisei Challenger
Francesco Forti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 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. 312 (career-high), the Italian got to the 2nd round after defeating Norbert Gombos 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round, Francesco had a good straight sets win against Gombos (7-65 6-4). During the match Forti scored 72 points vs Gombos’s 64. Francesco was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Forti managed to score 10 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Francesco Forti was exceptionally effective on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 68% (17/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Gombos once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).
Francesco’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Monastir and M25 Pozzuoli.
Francesco has a composed 50-30 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gaio | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 23 |
| Pts | 61-50 | 72-64 |
| Total Points | 111 | 136 |
| Winners | 33 | 32 |
| %Winners | 54% | 44% |
Both Gaio and Forti played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gaio and Forti have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gaio played 3 games less than Forti. The Italian scored 33 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, Forti scored 32 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gaio | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 10 |
| 1st in | 41/57 | 40/65 |
| %1st in | 72% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 33/41 | 32/40 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 17/25 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 68% |
Gaio recorded 5 aces . Forti blasted 10 aces . Gaio won 80% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Forti won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gaio | Forti |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 1 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 1/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 20% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Federico broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Federico was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Italian broke his opponent once with a 20% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Gaio | |||
| R1 Neuchrist |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 61-50 | 61-50 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/57 | 41/57 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 33/41 | 33/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Forti | |||
| R1 Gombos |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 72-64 | 72-64 | |
| Total points | 136 | 136 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 40/65 | 40/65 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 32/40 | 32/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/25 | 17/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/5 | 1/5 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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