Giovanni Fonio and Benoit Paire will square off in the 1st round of the Francavilla Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giovanni Fonio is the pick to win this match.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.53
Benoit Paire -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Giovanni Fonio vs. Benoit Paire
There is no head to head record between Giovanni Fonio and Benoit Paire since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Giovanni Fonio
20 - 10win/loss
359
269
LWLWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-13 | 6-3 | 14-8 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-33 | 12-8 | 24-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-39 | 22-12 | 28-26 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 0-0 | 40-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 331, the Italian reached the 1st round after defeating Gabriele Maria Noce 6-3 6-4 and Alex Marti Pujolras 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications against Marti Pujolras, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 7-5 6-2). During the match, Fonio scored 109 points vs Marti Pujolras’s 95. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about the service games, Fonio struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Giovanni Fonio lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Fonio put 70% of his first serves in, winning 70% (46/66) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the 2nd serve. Fonio broke Marti Pujolras 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Giovanni started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has surrendered 1 set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Fonio has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (322-227). 11-5 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Fonio has a composed 236-170 match record in the last years on clay.
Giovanni’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
The Italian has a compiled 20-10 win-loss record in 2025, 11-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Francavilla Challenger
Benoit Paire
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-11 | 3-5 | 3-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 11-30 | 6-12 | 0-9 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-38 | 13-12 | 27-17 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-31 | 7-13 | 6-14 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-32 | 6-12 | 7-13 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 556, Paire will start his run in the Francavilla Challenger after he played his last match in the Aix En Provence Challenger where he lost 6-0 6-1 to Lajal in the qualifications on the 29th of April.
Paire has an aggregate 5-9 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Paire has an overall 574-514 record. He has a positive 265-208 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWLLLL Tennis Scores in Francavilla Challenger
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Luca PredaPreda (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (4-6 7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mark LajalLajal – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-76 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Andrea CollariniCollarini (2-6 7-5 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Radu AlbotAlbot – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – Giovanni FonioFonio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo MenaMena – Alexey VatutinVatutin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – Valentin VacherotVacherot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
