Giulio Zeppieri and Stefano Napolitano will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.44
Stefano Napolitano -> 2.625
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Prediction and head to head Giulio Zeppieri vs. Stefano Napolitano
This will be the 3rd time that Giulio Zeppieri and Stefano Napolitano face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Zeppieri (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Zeppieri won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in the Rome 1 Challenger back in 2022.
Giulio Zeppieri
16 - 12win/loss
296
110
LLWWWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-15 | 3-3 | 11-10 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-18 | 8-4 | 7-10 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-26 | 7-5 | 19-13 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-31 | 1-2 | 25-22 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 0-0 | 26-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 368, Giulio will start his run in the Sassuolo Challenger after he played his last match in the Perugia Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Ymer in the 1st round on the 9th of June.
Zeppieri has a compiled 16-12 win-loss record in 2025, 10-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Giulio’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Koblenz Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Zeppieri has an overall 173-141 record. He has a positive 125-96 record on clay.
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
Stefano Napolitano
8 - 10win/loss
747
121
LLWWLWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-12 | 2-3 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-17 | 10-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-23 | 9-6 | 38-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 1-1 | 20-15 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-17 | 1-2 | 1-9 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 667, the Italian got to the 1st round after beating Jacopo Berrettini 7-6(7) 6-4 and Alexander Weis 4-6 6-4 6-0.
In the qualifications against Weis, Stefano recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-0). During the match Napolitano scored 85 points vs Weis’s 60. Stefano was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Napolitano fired 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Stefano Napolitano was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 66% (21/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The Italian broke Weis 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Stefano 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.
Stefano has an aggregate 8-10 win-loss record in 2025, 6-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
Napolitano has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWLLWL 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
