Tallon Griekspoor and Francesco Passaro will clash 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 6:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tallon Griekspoor who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tallon Griekspoor is the pick to win this match.
Tallon Griekspoor -> 1.41
Francesco Passaro -> 2.92

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Prediction and head to head Tallon Griekspoor vs. Francesco Passaro

There is no head to head record between Tallon Griekspoor and Francesco Passaro since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tallon Griekspoor

Tallon Griekspoor

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Rank
25
High
21
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 32-24 10-11 13-8 5-4 4-1 0-0
2024 33-30 10-11 8-8 11-8 4-3 0-0
2023 36-24 14-10 3-5 12-7 7-2 0-0
2022 28-27 5-6 12-6 4-11 7-4 0-0
2021 59-17 11-3 36-10 9-3 3-1 0-0

Ranked no. 26, Griekspoor will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Rublev in the 4th round on the 30th of April.

Griekspoor has an aggregate 13-10 win-loss record in 2024, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Griekspoor’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Rotterdam.

Talking about his overall career, Tallon has an overall 352-203 record. He has a positive 152-82 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.

Rome
Griekspoor's Record

Francesco Passaro

Francesco Passaro

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Rank
128
High
89
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 41-27 8-5 23-14 10-7 0-1 0-0
2024 39-25 4-5 35-19 0-0 0-1 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

Ranked no. 240, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Aleksandar Kovacevic 7-5 7-5, Duje Ajdukovic 7-65 6-76 7-63 and Arthur Rinderknech 6-73 7-5 7-67.

In the 1st round against Rinderknech, Francesco recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 7-5 7-67). During the match Passaro scored 120 points vs Rinderknech’s 114. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 53 winners.

About the serving games, Passaro managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Francesco Passaro was very efficient on serve to win 75% (53/71) of his 1st serve and 70% (32/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Passaro broke Rinderknech twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Passaro’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Naples Challenger.

Passaro has a composed 15-13 win-loss record in 2024, 12-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.

Rome
Passaro's Record

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