Saba Purtseladze and Federico Cina will clash against each other in the final of the Tbilisi Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Federico Cina who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Federico Cina is the pick to win this match.
Federico Cina -> 1.36
Saba Purtseladze -> 2.94

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Prediction and head to head Saba Purtseladze vs. Federico Cina

This will be the 2^nd time that Saba Purtseladze and Federico Cina face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Cina won 7-6(4) 6-3 in the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh back in March 2025.

Saba Purtseladze

Ranked no. 286 (career-high), the Georgean reached the final after beating Giles Hussey 2-6 7-6(2) 7-5, Sergey Fomin 6-3 7-6(4), Daniil Glinka 7-6(5) 5-7 7-6(10) and Martin Damm 7-5 6-7(4) 7-6(7).

In the semifinal, The Georgean defeated Damm (7-5 6-7⁴ 7-6⁷).During the match, Purtseladze scored less points (5) than Damm. In fact, the world no. 286 won 105 points vs Damm’s. That means that Purtseladze was more focused during the important points. Purtseladze was exceptionally aggressive to blast 50 winners.

Talking about the service games, Purtseladze submerged his opponent with 24 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Saba Purtseladze was very effective on serve to win 82% (50/61) of his 1st serve and 58% (30/52) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Purtseladze broke Damm twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Georgean has conceded 3 set in this tournament to conquer 51% of the points he played.

Purtseladze has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (200-158). 45-9 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Purtseladze has an overall171-101 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

Purtseladze’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M25 Sharm ElSheikh.

The Georgean has an overall 45-10 win-loss record in 2025, 45-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tbilisi Challenger

Purtseladze has never competed in this tournament before.

Federico Cina

Ranked no. 323 (career-high), the Italian reached the final after beating Petr Bar Biryukov 6-4 6-4, Ilya Snitari 6-1 7-5, Eliakim Coulibaly 6-4 7-6(4) and Charles Broom 6-2 6-7(5) 7-6(5).

In the semifinal, The Italian defeated Broom (6-2 6-7⁵ 7-6⁵). During the match Cina scored 107 points vs Broom’s 106. Federico was quite aggressive to blast 51 winners.

About the serving games, Cina fired 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Federico Cina lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Cina put 66% of his first serves in, winning 74% (51/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. Federico broke Broom 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Italian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

The Italian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and the Hersonissos 2 Challenger.

Federico has a compiled 15-6 win-loss record in 2025, 14-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Purtseladze	Cina
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	11	9
Tot Games	131	96
Pts	404-396	319-267
Total Points	800	586
Winners	194	138
%Winners	48%	43%

Both Purtseladze and Cina played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Saba Purtseladze dropped 3 sets, while Federico Cina lost 1 set. Purtseladze has played 2 sets more than Cina (11 vs 9). Therefore, Purtseladze played 35 games more than Cina. Saba scored 194 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Federico blasted 138 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Purtseladze	Cina
Aces	61	22
Avg per match	15.3	5.5
1st in	244/405	173/288
%1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	194/244	138/173
%1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	91/161	62/115
%2nd pts	57%	54%

Purtseladze managed to score 61 aces (15.3 per match). Cina managed to score 22 aces (5.5 per match). Purtseladze won 80% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Cina won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Purtseladze	Cina
Won	5	12
Converted	5/16	12/23
% Converted	31%	52%
Conceded	15	13
Saved	10	9
% Saved	67%	69%
Times Broken	5	4

The Georgean broke his opponents 5 times with a 31% conversion rate. Purtseladze dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Cina broke his opponents 12 times with a 52% conversion rate. Federico conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.

Purtseladze
	R1 Hussey	R2 Fomin	1/4 Glinka	1/2 Damm	Total
Score	2-6 7-62 7-5	6-3 7-64	7-65 5-7 7-610	7-5 6-74 7-67
Tot Set	3	2	3	3	11
Tot Games	33	22	38	38	131
pts	110-105	77-68	112-113	105-110	404-396
Total points	215	145	225	215	800
Winners	43	37	64	50	194
%Winners	39%	48%	57%	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	9	15	13	24	61
Double Faults	5	6	4	7	22
1st in	58/99	51/82	74/111	61/113	244/405
% 1st in	59%	62%	67%	54%	60%
1st pts	43/58	37/51	64/74	50/61	194/244
% 1st pts	74%	73%	86%	82%	80%
2nd pts	24/41	19/31	18/37	30/52	91/161
% 2nd pts	59%	61%	49%	58%	57%
Breaks
Won	1	1	1	2	5
Converted	1/6	1/1	1/5	2/4	5/16
Converted %	17%	100%	20%	50%	31%
Conceded	7	4	3	1	15
Saved	5/7	4/4	1/3	0/1	10
Saved %	71%	100%	33%	0%	51%
Times Broken	2	0	2	1	5

Cina
	R1 Bar	R2 Snitari	1/4 Coulibaly	1/2 Broom	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	6-1 7-5	6-4 7-64	6-2 6-75 7-65
Tot Set	2	2	2	3	9
Tot Games	20	19	23	34	96
pts	66-46	63-44	83-71	107-106	319-267
Total points	112	107	154	213	586
Winners	25	28	34	51	138
%Winners	38%	44%	41%	48%	43%
SERVE
Aces	2	3	7	10	22
Double Faults	2	0	9	1	12
1st in	26/48	32/56	46/80	69/104	173/288
% 1st in	54%	57%	58%	66%	60%
1st pts	25/26	28/32	34/46	51/69	138/173
% 1st pts	96%	88%	74%	74%	80%
2nd pts	15/22	13/24	17/34	17/35	62/115
% 2nd pts	68%	54%	50%	49%	54%
Breaks
Won	2	3	3	4	12
Converted	2/2	3/5	3/5	4/11	12/23
Converted %	100%	60%	60%	36%	52%
Conceded	0	1	10	2	13
Saved	0/0	1/1	8/10	0/2	9
Saved %	–	100%	80%	0%	45%
Times Broken	0	0	2	2	4

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