Ryan Nijboer and Lorenzo Bocchi will square off in the qualifications of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ryan Nijboer who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ryan Nijboer is the pick to win this match.
Ryan Nijboer -> 1.32
Lorenzo Bocchi -> 3.15

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Prediction and head to head Ryan Nijboer vs. Lorenzo Bocchi

There is no head to head record between Ryan Nijboer and Lorenzo Bocchi since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Ryan Nijboer

Ranked no. 434, Nijboer got to the qualifications after defeating Gianluca Mager 7-5 ret.

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In the qualifications against Mager, the Dutch had a free pass after Mager retired on a 7-5 . scoreline.

Nijboer has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 57% of his matches (274-209). 17-11 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Nijboer has an aggregate172-124 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.

Ryan’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Manacor.

Nijboer has an overall 22-19 win-loss record in 2025, 17-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger

The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.

Lorenzo Bocchi

Ranked no. 795, the Italian reached the qualifications after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Uchida (6-3 6-3). During the match Bocchi scored 62 points vs Uchida’s 48. Lorenzo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Bocchi fired 12 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Lorenzo Bocchi was very efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bocchi broke Uchida 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Bocchi’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Tsaghkadzor.

The Italian has an overall 6-3 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nijboer	Bocchi
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	12	18
Pts	30-29	62-48
Total Points	59	110
Winners	15	29
%Winners	50%	47%

Both Nijboer and Bocchi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nijboer and Bocchi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nijboer played 6 games less than Bocchi. Nijboer scored 15 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian scored 29 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nijboer	Bocchi
Aces	2	12
Avg per match	2	12
1st in	21/33	36/54
%1st in	64%	67%
1st pts	15/21	29/36
%1st pts	71%	81%
2nd pts	6/12	10/18
%2nd pts	50%	56%

Nijboer managed to score 2 aces . Bocchi blasted 12 aces . Nijboer won 71% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Bocchi won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Nijboer	Bocchi
Won	2	3
Converted	2/2	3/8
% Converted	100%	38%
Conceded	1	3
Saved	0	3
% Saved	0%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Ryan broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The Dutch lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Lorenzo was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Nijboer
	Q1 Mager	Total
Score	7-5 ret.
Tot Set	1	1
Tot Games	12	12
pts	30-29	30-29
Total points	59	59
Winners	15	15
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	21/33	21/33
% 1st in	64%	64%
1st pts	15/21	15/21
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	6/12	6/12
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Bocchi
	Q1 Uchida	Total
Score	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	62-48	62-48
Total points	110	110
Winners	29	29
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	36/54	36/54
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	29/36	29/36
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	10/18	10/18
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/8	3/8
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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