Andrej Martin and Marco Cecchinato will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marco Cecchinato is the pick to win this match.
Marco Cecchinato -> 1.66
Andrej Martin -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Andrej Martin vs. Marco Cecchinato
This will be the 7th time that Andrej Martin and Marco Cecchinato play each other. The head to head is 5-1 for Cecchinato (see full H2H stats), 4-1 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Cecchinato won 1-6 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in the Trieste Challenger back in 2022.
Andrej Martin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-21 | 0-0 | 28-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-13 | 1-1 | 39-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-20 | 0-1 | 9-18 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-35 | 0-3 | 40-31 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 306, Andrej got to the qualifications after defeating Stefanos Sakellaridis 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Sakellaridis (6-3 6-3). During the match, Martin scored 64 points vs Sakellaridis’s 43. Andrej was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Martin scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Andrej Martin was quite efficient on serve to win 90% (28/31) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovakian broke Sakellaridis 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Martin has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (261-203). 14-9 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Martin has a composed 252-169 record in the last years on clay.
Martin’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Kigali 1 Challenger.
Andrej has a compiled 14-9 win-loss record in 2025, 14-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
Andrej has never competed in this tournament before.
Marco Cecchinato
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-34 | 0-0 | 39-34 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-25 | 0-2 | 26-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-23 | 1-4 | 12-17 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-33 | 0-3 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-27 | 1-5 | 31-19 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 397, Marco reached the qualifications after beating Gabriele Piraino 6-4 7-6(2).
In the qualifications, Marco had a good straight sets win against Piraino (6-4 7-62). During the match Cecchinato scored 79 points vs Piraino’s 70. Cecchinato was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Cecchinato scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Marco Cecchinato lost the serve 6 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cecchinato put 68% of his first serves in, winning 56% (27/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 30% (7/23) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Piraino 7 times after converting 50% of his break points (7/14).
Marco’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger.
Cecchinato has an overall 15-17 win-loss record in 2025, 15-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Martin | Cecchinato |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 23 |
| Pts | 64-43 | 79-70 |
| Total Points | 107 | 149 |
| Winners | 28 | 27 |
| %Winners | 44% | 34% |
Both Martin and Cecchinato played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Martin and Cecchinato have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Martin played 5 games less than Cecchinato. Andrej scored 28 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Cecchinato fired 27 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Martin | Cecchinato |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 31/47 | 48/71 |
| %1st in | 66% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 28/31 | 27/48 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 56% |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 7/23 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 30% |
Martin made 1 ace . Cecchinato also blasted 1 ace . Martin won 90% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Cecchinato won 56% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 30% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Martin | Cecchinato |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 7 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 7/14 |
| % Converted | 33% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 9 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 6 |
Andrej broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Slovakian quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Italian broke his opponent 7 times with a 50% conversion rate. Marco conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Martin | |||
| Q1 Sakellaridis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-43 | 64-43 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/47 | 31/47 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 28/31 | 28/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 9/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Cecchinato | |||
| Q1 Piraino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 79-70 | 79-70 | |
| Total points | 149 | 149 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 48/71 | 48/71 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 27/48 | 27/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/23 | 7/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 30% | 30% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 3/9 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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