Federico Coria and Marco Cecchinato will square off in the quarter of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:30 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 Federico Coria who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Federico Coria is the pick to win this match.
Federico Coria -> 1.55
Marco Cecchinato -> 2.31

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Prediction and head to head Federico Coria vs. Marco Cecchinato

This will be the 6^th time that Federico Coria and Marco Cecchinato fight against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Coria (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Coria won 6-3 3-1 ret. in the 2^nd round in Cordoba back in 2023.

Federico Coria

Ranked no. 73, the Argentine got to the quarter after beating Francesco Maestrelli 6-1 6-3 and Federico Arnaboldi 6-4 5-7 6-0.

In the 2^nd round, Federico defeated Arnaboldi (6-4 5-7 6-0). During the match, Coria scored 99 points vs Arnaboldi’s 83. The Argentine was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Regarding the service games, Coria blasted 4 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Federico Coria lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Coria put 61% of his first serves in, winning 61% (40/66) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (20/42) on the 2nd serve. Federico broke Arnaboldi 7 times after converting 78% of his break points (7/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Federico has dropped 1 set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Coria has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (425-274). 22-16 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Coria has an overall 409-228 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Federico’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Piracicaba Challenger.

The Argentine has an overall 22-17 win-loss record in 2024, 22-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger

The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.

Marco Cecchinato

Ranked no. 404, the Italian reached the quarter after defeating Nino Serdarusic 6-3 6-3, David Jorda Sanchis 7-6⁷ 7-6⁰, Francisco Comesana 7-6⁴ 6-2 and Gerard Campana Lee 6-3 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, Cecchinato had a good straight sets win against Campana Lee (6-3 6-2). During the match Cecchinato scored 63 points vs Campana Lee’s 45. Cecchinato was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Cecchinato scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marco Cecchinato lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cecchinato put 51% of his first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 66% (19/29) on the 2nd serve. Cecchinato broke Campana Lee 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.

The Italian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Punta Del Este Challenger.

Cecchinato has an aggregate 18-17 win-loss record in 2024, 18-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Coria	Cecchinato
Match played	2	4
Tot Set	5	8
Tot Games	44	82
Pts	150-116	314-253
Total Points	266	567
Winners	58	110
%Winners	39%	35%

Coria played 2 matches while Cecchinato competed in 4 matches. Cecchinato started his run from the qualifications while Coria had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Federico Coria lost 1 set while Marco Cecchinato hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Coria has played 3 set(s) less than Cecchinato (5 vs 8). Therefore, Coria played 38 games less than Cecchinato. Coria scored 58 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 110 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Coria	Cecchinato
Aces	4	7
Avg per match	2	1.8
1st in	91/151	154/273
%1st in	60%	56%
1st pts	58/91	110/154
%1st pts	64%	71%
2nd pts	29/60	67/119
%2nd pts	48%	56%

Coria managed to score 4 aces (2 per match). Cecchinato managed to score 7 aces (1.8 per match). Coria won 64% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Cecchinato won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Coria	Cecchinato
Won	13	16
Converted	13/17	16/38
% Converted	76%	42%
Conceded	11	24
Saved	5	16
% Saved	45%	67%
Times Broken	6	8

Coria broke his opponents 13 times with a 76% conversion rate. Coria surrendered his serve 6 times and he saved 45% of the break points that he conceded. Marco broke his opponents 16 times with a 42% conversion rate. Marco conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Coria
	R1 Maestrelli	R2 Arnaboldi	Total
Score	6-1 6-3	6-4 5-7 6-0
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	16	28	44
pts	51-33	99-83	150-116
Total points	84	182	266
Winners	18	40	58
%Winners	35%	40%	39%
SERVE
Aces	0	4	4
Double Faults	3	6	9
1st in	25/43	66/108	91/151
% 1st in	58%	61%	60%
1st pts	18/25	40/66	58/91
% 1st pts	72%	61%	64%
2nd pts	9/18	20/42	29/60
% 2nd pts	50%	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	6	7	13
Converted	6/8	7/9	13/17
Converted %	75%	78%	76%
Conceded	2	9	11
Saved	0/2	5/9	5
Saved %	0%	56%	28%
Times Broken	2	4	6

Cecchinato
	Q1 Serdarusic	Q3 Jorda Sanchis	R1 Comesana	R2 Campana	Total
Score	6-3 6-3	7-67 7-60	7-64 6-2	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	18	26	21	17	82
pts	68-49	98-87	85-72	63-45	314-253
Total points	117	185	157	108	567
Winners	24	37	28	21	110
%Winners	35%	38%	33%	33%	35%
SERVE
Aces	5	1	0	1	7
Double Faults	2	7	2	1	12
1st in	28/51	54/96	42/67	30/59	154/273
% 1st in	55%	56%	63%	51%	56%
1st pts	24/28	37/54	28/42	21/30	110/154
% 1st pts	86%	69%	67%	70%	71%
2nd pts	12/23	21/42	15/25	19/29	67/119
% 2nd pts	52%	50%	60%	66%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4	4	4	16
Converted	4/11	4/13	4/9	4/5	16/38
Converted %	36%	31%	44%	80%	42%
Conceded	3	12	5	4	24
Saved	2/3	8/12	3/5	3/4	16
Saved %	67%	67%	60%	75%	135%
Times Broken	1	4	2	1	8

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