Francisco Cerundolo and Sebastian Ofner will face off in the 3^rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on PIETRANGELI. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.23
Sebastian Ofner -> 4.2

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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Sebastian Ofner

This will be the 3^rd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Sebastian Ofner fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Cerundolo (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Cerundolo won 5-7 6-4 6-4 6-2 in the 1^st round in at the U.S. Open back in 2024.

Highlights Francisco Cerundolo vs Sebastian Ofner – U.S. Open 26-August-2024

Francisco Cerundolo

Ranked no. 18 (career-high), the Argentine got to the 3^rd round after defeating Nicolas Jarry 7-6(4) 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Francisco had a good straight sets win against Jarry (7-6⁴ 6-3). During the match, Cerundolo scored 83 points vs Jarry’s 72. Francisco was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cerundolo managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Francisco Cerundolo lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cerundolo put 66% of his first serves in, winning 69% (35/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (18/26) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Jarry twice after converting 13% of his break points (2/16).

Cerundolo has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 66% of his matches (338-177). 17-6 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Cerundolo has a compiled 272-116 match record in the last years on clay.

The Argentine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Buenos Aires.

Cerundolo has an overall 25-10 win-loss record in 2025, 17-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Sebastian Ofner

Ranked no. 143, Ofner reached the 3^rd round after beating Kamil Majchrzak 6-4 6-4, Yannick Hanfmann 7-6(1) 6-2, Roberto Carballes Baena 6-3 ret. and Frances Tiafoe 6-2 6-7(2) 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Ofner defeated Tiafoe (6-2 6-7² 6-3). During the match Ofner scored 87 points vs Tiafoe’s 81. The Austrian was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Ofner struck 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Sebastian Ofner was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (35/42) of his 1st serve and 59% (27/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sebastian broke Tiafoe 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sebastian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Sebastian has a compiled 10-5 win-loss record in 2025, 10-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cerundolo	Ofner
Match played	1	4
Tot Set	2	9
Tot Games	22	80
Pts	83-72	266-230
Total Points	155	496
Winners	35	108
%Winners	42%	41%

Cerundolo played 1 match while Ofner competed in 4 matches. Ofner started his run from the qualifications while Cerundolo had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Sebastian Ofner lost 1 set while Francisco Cerundolo hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Cerundolo has played 7 set(s) less than Ofner (2 vs 9). Therefore, Cerundolo played 58 games less than Ofner. Francisco scored 35 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Sebastian managed to score 108 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cerundolo	Ofner
Aces	3	33
Avg per match	3	8.3
1st in	51/77	132/247
%1st in	66%	53%
1st pts	35/51	108/132
%1st pts	69%	82%
2nd pts	18/26	68/115
%2nd pts	69%	59%

Cerundolo scored 3 aces . Ofner struck 33 aces (8.3 per match). Cerundolo won 69% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Ofner won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cerundolo	Ofner
Won	2	9
Converted	2/16	9/23
% Converted	13%	39%
Conceded	4	8
Saved	3	7
% Saved	75%	88%
Times Broken	1	1

Francisco broke his opponent twice with a 13% conversion rate. The Argentine lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Sebastian broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. Ofner conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Cerundolo
	R2 Jarry	Total
Score	7-64 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	83-72	83-72
Total points	155	155
Winners	35	35
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	51/77	51/77
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	35/51	35/51
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	18/26	18/26
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/16	2/16
Converted %	13%	13%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Ofner
	Q1 Majchrzak	Q3 Hanfmann	R1 Carballes Baena	R2 Tiafoe	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	7-61 6-2	6-3 ret.	6-2 6-72 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	1	3	8
Tot Games	20	21	9	30	80
pts	66-63	74-59	39-27	87-81	266-230
Total points	129	133	66	168	496
Winners	29	33	11	35	108
%Winners	44%	45%	28%	40%	41%
SERVE
Aces	10	14	3	6	33
Double Faults	0	0	2	1	3
1st in	35/67	43/67	12/25	42/88	132/247
% 1st in	52%	64%	48%	48%	53%
1st pts	29/35	33/43	11/12	35/42	108/132
% 1st pts	83%	77%	92%	83%	82%
2nd pts	16/32	16/24	9/13	27/46	68/115
% 2nd pts	50%	67%	69%	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	2	2	1	4	9
Converted	2/7	2/4	1/5	4/7	9/23
Converted %	29%	50%	20%	57%	39%
Conceded	2	2	0	4	8
Saved	2/2	2/2	0/0	3/4	7
Saved %	100%	100%	–	75%	275%
Times Broken	0	0	0	1	1

Tennis Scores in Rome

• Jack DraperDraper – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Vilius GaubasGaubas (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Arthur FilsFils – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (2-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Holger RuneRune (7-5 5-7 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Jannik SinnerSinner – Jesper De JongDe Jong (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Sebastian OfnerOfner (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jack DraperDraper – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-2) – H2H and prediction