Marco Cecchinato and Pierluigi Basile will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Perugia Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marco Cecchinato who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marco Cecchinato is the pick to win this match.
Marco Cecchinato -> 1.36
Pierluigi Basile -> 2.94

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Prediction and head to head Marco Cecchinato vs. Pierluigi Basile

There is no head to head record between Marco Cecchinato and Pierluigi Basile since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Marco Cecchinato

Ranked no. 402, the Italian got to the qualifications after defeating Luca Castagnola 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, Cecchinato had a good straight sets win against Castagnola (6-3 6-3). During the match, Cecchinato scored 69 points vs Castagnola’s 55. Cecchinato was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cecchinato blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marco Cecchinato lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Cecchinato put 55% of his first serves in, winning 75% (24/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (10/26) on the 2nd serve. Cecchinato broke Castagnola 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Cecchinato has good match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (290-252). 14-15 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cecchinato has a composed 273-188 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Cecchinato’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger.

Cecchinato has a composed 14-15 win-loss record in 2025, 14-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Perugia Challenger

Pierluigi Basile

Ranked no. 820, will start his run in the Perugia Challenger after he played his last match in the Perugia Challenger where he beat 7-6(3) 7-6(4) to Fonio in the qualifications on the 8^th of June.

Pierluigi has a compiled 0-4 win-loss record in 2025, 0-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

In terms of his career, The Italian has an overall 15-11 record. He has a positive 11-9 record on clay.

Previously in the Perugia Challenger

Basile has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cecchinato	Basile
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	26
Pts	69-55	91-85
Total Points	124	176
Winners	24	35
%Winners	35%	38%

Both Cecchinato and Basile played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cecchinato and Basile have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cecchinato played 8 games less than Basile. Cecchinato scored 24 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 35 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cecchinato	Basile
Aces	2	9
Avg per match	2	9
1st in	32/58	49/92
%1st in	55%	53%
1st pts	24/32	35/49
%1st pts	75%	71%
2nd pts	10/26	23/43
%2nd pts	38%	53%

Cecchinato blasted 2 aces . Basile recorded 9 aces . Cecchinato won 75% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Basile won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cecchinato	Basile
Won	5	2
Converted	5/8	2/5
% Converted	63%	40%
Conceded	6	5
Saved	4	3
% Saved	67%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Marco broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Italian surrendered his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Basile broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Basile conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Cecchinato
	Q1 Castagnola	Total
Score	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	69-55	69-55
Total points	124	124
Winners	24	24
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	32/58	32/58
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	24/32	24/32
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	10/26	10/26
% 2nd pts	38%	38%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Basile
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	0%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

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