Joel Schwaerzler and Gabriele Pennaforti will play each other in the 1st round of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Joel Schwaerzler who should win in 2 sets.
Joel Schwaerzler -> 1.35
Gabriele Pennaforti -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Joel Schwaerzler vs. Gabriele Pennaforti
There is no head to head record between Joel Schwaerzler and Gabriele Pennaforti since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Joel Schwaerzler
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-26 | 0-0 | 39-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-23 | 3-3 | 21-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-9 | 1-2 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 307 (career-high), Schwaerzler will start his run in the Kigali 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Kigali 1 Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-6(5) 6-1 to Neuchrist in the 2nd round on the 26th of February.
Joel has a compiled 7-5 win-loss record in 2025, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Austrian has an overall 38-37 record. He has a positive 33-28 record on clay.
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
Schwaerzler has never competed in this tournament before.
Gabriele Pennaforti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-29 | 0-0 | 36-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-27 | 0-0 | 46-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-28 | 2-3 | 47-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-26 | 12-11 | 26-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-8 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 433, Pennaforti got to the 1st round after beating Thijmen Loof 6-1 6-3 and Maik Steiner 7-5 4-6 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Italian defeated Steiner (7-5 4-6 6-1). During the match Pennaforti scored 102 points vs Steiner’s 86. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Pennaforti blasted 3 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Gabriele Pennaforti lost the serve 5 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Pennaforti put 57% of his first serves in, winning 72% (36/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (17/38) on the 2nd serve. Pennaforti broke Steiner 7 times after converting 64% of his break points (7/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Pennaforti started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Gabriele’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Valencia.
Pennaforti has an overall 12-6 win-loss record in 2025, 12-6 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Kigali 2 Challenger
- Max HoukesHoukes – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Guy Den OudenDen Ouden – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-5 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime ChazalChazal – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Clement TaburTabur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Andrej MartinMartin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Max HoukesHoukes (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PicchionePicchione – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction