Stefano Travaglia and Cezar Cretu will square off in the quarter of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:30 pm on COURT CENTRE. 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 Stefano Travaglia who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefano Travaglia is the pick to win this match.
Stefano Travaglia -> 1.43
Cezar Cretu -> 2.69
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Prediction and head to head Stefano Travaglia vs. Cezar Cretu
There is no head to head record between Stefano Travaglia and Cezar Cretu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Stefano Travaglia
31 - 29win/loss
220
60
LLLWLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-34 | 5-6 | 24-22 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-37 | 9-7 | 29-24 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-27 | 5-8 | 2-11 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-28 | 7-7 | 20-14 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 9-7 | 8-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 196, Stefano got to the quarter after defeating Filip Jeff Planinsek 6-2 6-3 and Miguel Damas 6-3 6-7(4) 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Italian defeated Damas (6-3 6-74 6-4). During the match, Travaglia scored 109 points vs Damas’s 94. Stefano was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Travaglia bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Stefano Travaglia was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (37/51) of his 1st serve and 63% (25/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Damas 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian has dropped 1 set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Travaglia has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (365-244). 24-21 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Travaglia has a composed 250-143 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Tenerife 2 Challenger.
Travaglia has a composed 31-29 win-loss record in 2024, 24-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Cezar Cretu
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44 - 19win/loss
313
288
WLWWLWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 50-24 | 4-5 | 44-19 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-22 | 13-9 | 42-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-19 | 0-3 | 41-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 14-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 307, Cretu reached the quarter after defeating Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-4 7-6(3) and Artem Dubrivnyy 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Cretu had a good straight sets win against Dubrivnyy (6-3 6-1). During the match Cretu scored 58 points vs Dubrivnyy’s 35. Cretu was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Cretu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Cezar Cretu was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cezar broke Dubrivnyy 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cezar hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Cezar’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Oradea,M25 Satu Mare and M25+H Bacau.
Cezar has a compiled 44-19 win-loss record in 2024, 42-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Travaglia | Cretu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 49 | 39 |
| Pts | 181-146 | 130-102 |
| Total Points | 327 | 232 |
| Winners | 59 | 53 |
| %Winners | 33% | 41% |
Both Travaglia and Cretu played 2 matches. At the moment, Stefano Travaglia conceded 1 set while Cezar Cretu hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Travaglia has played 1 set more than Cretu (5 vs 4). Therefore, Travaglia played 10 games more than Cretu. The Italian scored 59 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian blasted 53 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Travaglia | Cretu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 81/140 | 72/111 |
| %1st in | 58% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 59/81 | 53/72 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 39/59 | 22/39 |
| %2nd pts | 66% | 56% |
Travaglia recorded 9 aces (4.5 per match). Cretu recorded 2 aces (1 per match). Travaglia won 73% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Cretu won 74% 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 | Travaglia | Cretu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 7 |
| Converted | 9/25 | 7/12 |
| % Converted | 36% | 58% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 71% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Travaglia broke his opponents 9 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Italian surrendered his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. The Romanian broke his opponents 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Cretu conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Travaglia | ||||
| R1 Jeff |
R2 Damas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-3 6-74 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 32 | 49 | |
| pts | 72-52 | 109-94 | 181-146 | |
| Total points | 124 | 203 | 327 | |
| Winners | 22 | 37 | 59 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 34% | 33% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 51/91 | 81/140 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 56% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 37/51 | 59/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 25/40 | 39/59 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 63% | 66% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/13 | 5/12 | 9/25 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 42% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 0/2 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Cretu | ||||
| R1 Sanchez-Izquierdo |
R2 Dubrivnyy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 16 | 39 | |
| pts | 72-67 | 58-35 | 130-102 | |
| Total points | 139 | 93 | 232 | |
| Winners | 33 | 20 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 34% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 46/68 | 26/43 | 72/111 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 60% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 33/46 | 20/26 | 53/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 77% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 12/17 | 22/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 71% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/7 | 7/12 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 57% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | – | 17% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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