Oriol Roca Batalla and Giovanni Fonio will face off in the 1^st round of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Giovanni Fonio is the pick to win this match.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.86
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Oriol Roca Batalla vs. Giovanni Fonio

This will be the 6^th time that Oriol Roca Batalla and Giovanni Fonio square off. The head to head is 3-2 for Fonio (see full H2H stats), 3-2 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Fonio won 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in the Sassuolo Challenger back in June 2025.

Oriol Roca Batalla

Ranked no. 346, Oriol got to the 1^st round after defeating Ryan Seggerman 6-1 6-0 and Giovanni Fonio 6-4 6-4.

Roca Batalla has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (394-246). 12-13 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Roca Batalla has a composed 360-215 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

The Spaniard’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Ostrava Challenger.

Roca Batalla has an aggregate 12-14 win-loss record in 2025, 12-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger

The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.

Giovanni Fonio

Ranked no. 376, the Italian got to the 1^st round after beating Federico Iannaccone 6-3 3-6 7-5 and Oriol Roca Batalla 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Roca Batalla (6-4 6-4). During the match Fonio scored 63 points vs Roca Batalla’s 43. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Fonio blasted 4 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Giovanni Fonio was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 93% (13/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Giovanni broke Roca Batalla twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Fonio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Fonio’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.

Fonio has a composed 25-14 win-loss record in 2025, 16-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Roca Batalla	Fonio
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	13	50
Pts	53-19	166-136
Total Points	72	302
Winners	20	63
%Winners	38%	38%

Roca Batalla played 1 match while Fonio competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Giovanni Fonio surrendered 1 set while Oriol Roca Batalla hasn’t lost a set so far. Roca Batalla has played 3 set(s) less than Fonio (2 vs 5). Therefore, Roca Batalla played 37 games less than Fonio. The Spaniard scored 20 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian recorded 63 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Roca Batalla	Fonio
Aces	7	8
Avg per match	7	4
1st in	23/33	88/148
%1st in	70%	59%
1st pts	20/23	63/88
%1st pts	87%	72%
2nd pts	8/10	35/60
%2nd pts	80%	58%

Roca Batalla bagged 7 aces . Fonio made 8 aces (4 per match). Roca Batalla won 87% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 80% of the points. On the other side, Fonio won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Roca Batalla	Fonio
Won	5	8
Converted	5/7	8/19
% Converted	71%	42%
Conceded	0	12
Saved	0	7
% Saved	0%	58%
Times Broken	0	5

The Spaniard broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Roca Batalla quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Fonio broke his opponents 8 times with a 42% conversion rate. Giovanni conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 58% of the break points that he conceded.

Roca Batalla
	Q1 Seggerman	Q3 Fonio	Total
Score	6-1 6-0	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	13	20	33
pts	53-19	–	53-19
Total points	72	0	72
Winners	20		20
%Winners	38%	0%	38%
SERVE
Aces	7	0	7
Double Faults	0		0
1st in	23/33	/	23/33
% 1st in	70%	0%	70%
1st pts	20/23	/	20/23
% 1st pts	87%	0%	87%
2nd pts	8/10	/	8/10
% 2nd pts	80%	0%	80%
Breaks
Won	5		5
Converted	5/7	/	5/7
Converted %	71%	0%	71%
Conceded	0		0
Saved	0/0	0/	0
Saved %	–	–	0%
Times Broken	0		0

Fonio
	Q1 Iannaccone	Q3 Roca Batalla	Total
Score	6-3 3-6 7-5	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	30	20	50
pts	103-93	63-43	166-136
Total points	196	106	302
Winners	36	27	63
%Winners	35%	43%	38%
SERVE
Aces	4	4	8
Double Faults	8	0	8
1st in	55/101	33/47	88/148
% 1st in	54%	70%	59%
1st pts	36/55	27/33	63/88
% 1st pts	65%	82%	72%
2nd pts	22/46	13/14	35/60
% 2nd pts	48%	93%	58%
Breaks
Won	6	2	8
Converted	6/16	2/3	8/19
Converted %	38%	67%	42%
Conceded	12	0	12
Saved	7/12	0/0	7
Saved %	58%	–	29%
Times Broken	5	0	5

Tennis Scores in Sassuolo Challenger

• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Andrej MartinMartin (6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-4 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Giovanni FonioFonio – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Alexander WeisWeis (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Ryan NijboerNijboer – Lorenzo BocchiBocchi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Ryan NijboerNijboer – Lorenzo BocchiBocchi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-4 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Giovanni FonioFonio – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 6-4) – See score progression

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