Fabio Fognini and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri will play each other in the 2^nd round of the San Marino Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 8:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fabio Fognini who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Fabio Fognini is the pick to win this match.
Fabio Fognini -> 1.35
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri -> 3.04

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Prediction and head to head Fabio Fognini vs. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri

There is no head to head record between Fabio Fognini and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Fabio Fognini

Ranked no. 74, Fabio reached the 2^nd round after defeating Pedro Sakamoto 6-7(5) 6-1 6-2.

In the 1^st round against Sakamoto, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁵ 6-1 6-2). During the match, Fognini scored 104 points vs Sakamoto’s 81. Fabio was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Regarding the service games, Fognini bagged 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Fabio Fognini was very efficient on serve to win 75% (48/64) of his 1st serve and 53% (17/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Sakamoto 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).

Fognini has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (273-219). 16-11 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Fognini has an overall 143-99 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Fognini has a compiled 23-18 win-loss record in 2024, 16-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the San Marino Challenger

Samuel Vincent Ruggeri

Ranked no. 280, Samuel reached the 2^nd round after beating Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Samuel had a good straight sets win against Lucas Reis Da (6-4 6-1). During the match Vincent scored 60 points vs Lucas Reis Da’s 37. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Vincent fired 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri was extremely effective on serve to win 92% (24/26) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Lucas Reis Da 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Samuel’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Milan Challenger.

Samuel has a compiled 41-24 win-loss record in 2024, 25-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the San Marino Challenger

Samuel has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Fognini	Vincent
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	28	17
Pts	104-81	60-37
Total Points	185	97
Winners	48	24
%Winners	46%	40%

Both Fognini and Vincent played 1 match. At the moment, Fabio Fognini conceded 1 set while Samuel Vincent Ruggeri hasn’t conceded a set so far. Fognini has played 1 set more than Vincent (3 vs 2). Therefore, Fognini played 11 games more than Vincent. Fognini scored 48 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 24 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Fognini	Vincent
Aces	8	7
Avg per match	8	7
1st in	64/96	26/44
%1st in	67%	59%
1st pts	48/64	24/26
%1st pts	75%	92%
2nd pts	17/32	12/18
%2nd pts	53%	67%

Fognini managed to score 8 aces . Vincent scored 7 aces . Fognini won 75% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Vincent won 92% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Fognini	Vincent
Won	6	3
Converted	6/9	3/10
% Converted	67%	30%
Conceded	6	0
Saved	4	0
% Saved	67%	0%
Times Broken	2	0

Fognini broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Italian dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Vincent broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Samuel was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Fognini
	R1 Sakamoto	Total
Score	6-75 6-1 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	104-81	104-81
Total points	185	185
Winners	48	48
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	64/96	64/96
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	48/64	48/64
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	17/32	17/32
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/9	6/9
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Vincent
	R1 Lucas Reis Da	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	60-37	60-37
Total points	97	97
Winners	24	24
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	26/44	26/44
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	24/26	24/26
% 1st pts	92%	92%
2nd pts	12/18	12/18
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/10	3/10
Converted %	30%	30%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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• Alexandre MullerMuller – Giovanni FonioFonio (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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