Alexander Ritschard and Giovanni Fonio will face off in the 1st round of the Sarasota Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Ritschard who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Ritschard is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Ritschard -> 1.49
Giovanni Fonio -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Ritschard vs. Giovanni Fonio
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Ritschard and Giovanni Fonio face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ritschard (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Ritschard won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Todi Challenger back in 2021.
Alexander Ritschard
15 - 8win/loss
209
160
WWWWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-10 | 7-3 | 10-3 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-13 | 11-5 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 195, Alexander will start his run in the Sarasota Challenger after he played his last match in Houston where he lost 6-3 2-6 6-4 to Wolf in the 1st round on the 1st of April.
Alexander has an aggregate 14-8 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Swiss has an overall 301-204 record. He has a positive 158-90 record on clay.
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Giovanni Fonio
11 - 11win/loss
301
269
LLWWLLLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-12 | 9-7 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 19-7 | 8-3 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 304, Giovanni got to the 1st round after beating Duarte Vale 6-3 6-4 and Kyle Edmund 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Giovanni had a good straight sets win against Edmund (6-2 6-3). During the match Fonio scored 66 points vs Edmund’s 50. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Fonio blasted 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Giovanni Fonio was quite effective on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Giovanni broke Edmund 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Giovanni started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.
Fonio’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger.
Giovanni has a compiled 11-10 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLLLLLW Tennis Scores in Sarasota Challenger
- Martin DammDamm – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-71 7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zizou BergsBergs – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Jeff WolfWolf (7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Patrick KypsonKypson (6-2 3-6 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Clement TaburTabur (6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Calvin HemeryHemery (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Giovanni FonioFonio (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Denis KudlaKudla (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix CorwinCorwin – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
