Filippo Romano and Andrea Picchione will square off in the qualifications of the Verona Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:00 pm on VOLVO ARENA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrea Picchione who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrea Picchione is the pick to win this match.
Andrea Picchione -> 1.21
Filippo Romano -> 4.1
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Prediction and head to head Filippo Romano vs. Andrea Picchione
This will be the 2nd time that Filippo Romano and Andrea Picchione clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Picchione (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Picchione won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in M15 Pescara back in 2022.
Filippo Romano
15 - 20win/loss
796
796
LWLWWLWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-26 | 1-1 | 8-17 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 6-2 |
| 2023 | 9-13 | 3-6 | 4-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Italian reached the qualifications after beating Pedro Sakamoto 7-6(3) 6-4.
In the qualifications, Romano had a good straight sets win against Sakamoto (7-63 6-4). During the match, Romano scored 79 points vs Sakamoto’s 69. Filippo was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Romano made 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Filippo Romano lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Romano put 56% of his first serves in, winning 77% (34/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Romano broke Sakamoto 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Romano has a negative win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 40% of his matches (25-37). 4-11 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Romano has an overall8-19 record in the last 3 years on clay.
Romano’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Foncenex.
Romano has a composed 15-20 win-loss record in 2024, 4-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Andrea Picchione
32 - 17win/loss
353
351
LWWWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-24 | 1-1 | 45-19 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-31 | 16-9 | 30-19 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-31 | 10-5 | 32-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-21 | 6-4 | 28-16 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 380, will start his run in the Verona Challenger after he played his last match in the Verona Challenger where he beat 6-3 6-3 to Tammaro in the qualifications on the 21st of July.
Picchione has a compiled 31-17 win-loss record in 2024, 28-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Andrea’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and M25 Cattolica.
In terms of his career, Andrea has an overall 203-126 record. He has a positive 158-92 record on clay.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Romano | Picchione |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 18 |
| Pts | 79-69 | 68-50 |
| Total Points | 148 | 118 |
| Winners | 34 | 23 |
| %Winners | 43% | 34% |
Both Romano and Picchione played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Romano and Picchione have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Romano played 5 games more than Picchione. Romano scored 34 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian fired 23 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Romano | Picchione |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 15 | 2 |
| 1st in | 44/78 | 33/56 |
| %1st in | 56% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 23/33 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 17/23 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 74% |
Romano scored 15 aces . Picchione scored 2 aces . Romano won 77% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Picchione won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Romano | Picchione |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 60% | 50% |
| Conceded | 7 | 0 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 71% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Filippo broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Italian surrendered his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Picchione broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Andrea was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Romano | |||
| Q1 Sakamoto |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 79-69 | 79-69 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 44/78 | 44/78 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 34/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 17/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Picchione | |||
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | |||
| Tot Set | 0 | ||
| Tot Games | 0 | ||
| pts | 0-0 | ||
| Total points | 0 | ||
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | ||
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st in | 0% | ||
| 1st pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st pts | 0% | ||
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 0% | ||
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | 0/0 | ||
| Converted % | 0% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0 | ||
| Saved % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
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