Francisco Cerundolo and Matteo Gigante will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 8:30 pm on PIETRANGELI. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.4
Matteo Gigante -> 2.96

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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Matteo Gigante

There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Matteo Gigante since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Francisco Cerundolo

Francisco Cerundolo

12 - 13win/loss

Hard
3-5
I Hard
0-0
Clay
9-8
Rank
30
High
19
WLWLWWLLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 35-31 5-10 21-13 9-5 0-3 0-0
2023 39-26 10-10 19-12 4-2 6-2 0-0
2022 36-28 7-8 25-10 3-7 1-3 0-0
2021 44-24 3-2 39-21 0-0 2-1 0-0
2020 36-11 5-0 31-11 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 22, Cerundolo will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-1 3-6 6-3 to Fritz in the quarter on the 1st of May.

Francisco has an overall 12-13 win-loss record in 2024, 9-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Argentine’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Rio de Janeiro.

Talking about his overall career, Cerundolo has an overall 290-149 record. He has a positive 243-105 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.

Rome
Cerundolo's Record

Matteo Gigante

Matteo Gigante

23 - 8win/loss

Hard
18-3
I Hard
0-2
Clay
5-3
Rank
141
High
132
LLLWWWLLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 41-25 27-10 11-10 2-4 1-1 0-0
2023 32-29 10-5 19-18 1-5 2-1 0-0
2022 38-20 9-1 27-15 2-4 0-0 0-0
2021 21-15 2-2 16-7 3-6 0-0 0-0
2020 4-9 1-1 2-5 1-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 139 (career-high), the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Giulio Zeppieri 7-62 6-4.

In the 1st round, Matteo had a good straight sets win against Zeppieri (7-62 6-4). During the match Gigante scored 94 points vs Zeppieri’s 77. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about serving, Gigante bagged 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Matteo Gigante lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Gigante put 64% of his first serves in, winning 70% (35/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Zeppieri 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he overcame Seong Chan Hong in the final 6-4 6-1 and the Tenerife 2 Challenger where he beat Stefano Travaglia in the final 6-2 6-4.

Matteo has a compiled 23-8 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2020 and 2023. See his history.

Rome
Gigante's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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