Rudolf Molleker and Francesco Passaro will face off in the 1st round of the BMW Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 6:30 pm on CENTER 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 Rudolf Molleker who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rudolf Molleker is the pick to win this match.
Rudolf Molleker -> 1.68
Francesco Passaro -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Rudolf Molleker vs. Francesco Passaro
There is no head to head record between Rudolf Molleker and Francesco Passaro since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rudolf Molleker
13 - 11win/loss
172
146
LWLWLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-12 | 4-4 | 3-4 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-7 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 182, Molleker will start his run in Munich after he played his last match in the Madrid Challenger where he lost 6-7(1) 6-1 6-1 to Kukushkin in the 2nd round on the 11th of April.
The German has a compiled 13-11 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The German’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Lugano Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Rudolf has an overall 216-183 record. He has a positive 157-109 record on clay.
Previously in Munich
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Francesco Passaro
11 - 10win/loss
238
108
LWLLWWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-13 | 3-3 | 9-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-35 | 8-11 | 18-20 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-28 | 12-6 | 35-18 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-27 | 4-5 | 39-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 219, Passaro reached the 1st round after beating Yannik Kelm 6-3 6-2 and Andrea Pellegrino 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Pellegrino (6-3 6-4). During the match Passaro scored 80 points vs Pellegrino’s 60. Francesco was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Passaro bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Francesco Passaro was very effective on serve to win 84% (36/43) of his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Passaro broke Pellegrino twice after converting 13% of his break points (2/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Francesco started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Passaro’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Naples Challenger.
The Italian has an overall 11-10 win-loss record in 2024, 8-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWLLWL Tennis Scores in Munich
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Henri SquireSquire (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Nerman FaticFatic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (7-67 6-74 6-3) – See score progression
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Henri SquireSquire (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (7-6(7) 6-7(4) 6-3) – See score progression
- Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Nerman FaticFatic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
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- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Jack DraperDraper (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Dominic ThiemThiem (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (0-1) – H2H and prediction
