Daniel Rincon and Marco Cecchinato will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday 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 Daniel Rincon who should win in 3 sets.
Daniel Rincon -> 1.64
Marco Cecchinato -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Daniel Rincon vs. Marco Cecchinato
There is no head to head record between Daniel Rincon and Marco Cecchinato since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Daniel Rincon
20 - 16win/loss
237
181
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-28 | 8-2 | 15-21 | 9-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-28 | 3-7 | 25-19 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 19-7 | 31-18 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-29 | 6-10 | 31-16 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-18 | 9-8 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 216, Rincon will start his run in the Sassuolo Challenger after he played his last match in the Perugia Challenger where he lost 6-2 4-1 ret. to Svrcina in the 1st round on the 10th of June.
Daniel has an aggregate 20-16 win-loss record in 2025, 8-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Daniel’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 1 Challenger,the Tenerife 2 Challenger and the Glasgow Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Spaniard has an overall 168-126 record. He has a positive 107-75 record on clay.
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
The Spaniard 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. 396, Marco got to the 1st round after beating Gabriele Piraino 6-4 7-6(2) and Andrej Martin 6-1 7-6(3).
In the qualifications, Cecchinato had a good straight sets win against Martin (6-1 7-63). During the match Cecchinato scored 69 points vs Martin’s 51. Cecchinato was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Cecchinato scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Marco Cecchinato lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Cecchinato put 69% of his first serves in, winning 68% (28/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the 2nd serve. Cecchinato broke Martin 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cecchinato started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
Marco’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger.
The Italian has a compiled 16-17 win-loss record in 2025, 16-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history
.Tennis Scores in Sassuolo Challenger
- Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Andrej MartinMartin (6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Alexander WeisWeis (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Elias YmerYmer – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-4 0-6 6-4) – 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
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Taro DanielDaniel – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Jozef KovalikKovalik (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan NijboerNijboer – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (0-0) – H2H and prediction