Jesper De Jong and Francesco Passaro will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Cagliari Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:30 am on CAMPO 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jesper De Jong who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jesper De Jong is the pick to win this match.
Jesper De Jong -> 1.68
Francesco Passaro -> 2.1
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Prediction and head to head Jesper De Jong vs. Francesco Passaro
There is no head to head record between Jesper De Jong and Francesco Passaro since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Jesper De Jong
16 - 10win/loss
162
135
LLWLWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-13 | 7-3 | 10-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-23 | 19-4 | 30-14 | 0-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-28 | 12-7 | 10-13 | 2-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-29 | 2-6 | 27-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 31-12 | 7-3 | 14-5 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 156, De Jong got to the qualifications after defeating Petr Nouza 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, De Jong had a good straight sets win against Nouza (6-2 6-1). During the match, De Jong scored 58 points vs Nouza’s 31. Jesper was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, De Jong struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Jesper De Jong was pretty efficient on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. De Jong broke Nouza 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
De Jong has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 62% of his matches (220-132). 8-5 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, De Jong has an aggregate120-68 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
De Jong has a composed 15-10 win-loss record in 2024, 8-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cagliari Challenger
Jesper has never competed in this tournament before.
Francesco Passaro
12 - 13win/loss
240
108
LWWWWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-14 | 3-3 | 13-11 | 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. 238, Passaro got to the qualifications after beating Lucas Miedler 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Miedler (6-3 6-3). During the match Passaro scored 66 points vs Miedler’s 45. Francesco was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Passaro struck 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Francesco Passaro was exceptionally effective on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Miedler 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The Italian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Naples Challenger.
The Italian has an overall 12-12 win-loss record in 2024, 9-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cagliari Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | De Jong | Passaro |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 18 |
| Pts | 58-31 | 66-45 |
| Total Points | 89 | 111 |
| Winners | 20 | 25 |
| %Winners | 34% | 38% |
Both De Jong and Passaro played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, De Jong and Passaro have played the same amount of sets 2. However, De Jong played 3 games less than Passaro. The Dutch scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Passaro fired 25 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | De Jong | Passaro |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
| 1st in | 24/44 | 31/56 |
| %1st in | 55% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 25/31 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 13/25 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 52% |
De Jong blasted 2 aces . Passaro struck 6 aces . De Jong won 83% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Passaro won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | De Jong | Passaro |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 80% | 67% |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Dutch broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Dutch had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Francesco broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| De Jong | |||
| Q1 Nouza |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-31 | 58-31 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/44 | 24/44 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 20/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Passaro | |||
| Q1 Miedler |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 66-45 | 66-45 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 31/56 | 31/56 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 13/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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