Max Alcala Gurri and Marco Cecchinato will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Milan Challenger for the 1st 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 Marco Cecchinato who should win in 3 sets.
Marco Cecchinato -> 1.77
Max Alcala Gurri -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Max Alcala Gurri vs. Marco Cecchinato
There is no head to head record between Max Alcala Gurri and Marco Cecchinato since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Max Alcala Gurri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49-27 | 0-1 | 49-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-29 | 0-0 | 44-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-32 | 1-2 | 42-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-25 | 0-3 | 38-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-24 | 4-4 | 38-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 435, Alcala Gurri reached the 1st round after beating Luca Castagnola 6-3 7-6(4) and Petr Nesterov 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Nesterov (6-3 6-3). During the match, Alcala Gurri scored 63 points vs Nesterov’s 52. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Alcala Gurri scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Max Alcala Gurri lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Alcala Gurri put 70% of his first serves in, winning 60% (21/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Nesterov 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alcala Gurri started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Alcala Gurri has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (212-141). 33-13 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Alcala Gurri has an aggregate207-129 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Spaniard’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Valencia,M15 Antalya and M25 Santa margherita di Pula.
The Spaniard has a composed 33-13 win-loss record in 2025, 33-13 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Milan Challenger
Alcala Gurri 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. 437, the Italian will start his run in the Milan Challenger after he played his last match in the Sassuolo Challenger where he lost 7-5 3-6 6-3
to Rincon in the 1st round on the 17th of June.The Italian has a compiled 16-18 win-loss record in 2025, 16-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Cecchinato’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger.
In terms of his career, Marco has an overall 481-361 record. He has a positive 440-270 record on clay.
Previously in the Milan Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Milan Challenger
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Gabriele PirainoPiraino (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luka MikrutMikrut – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rafael JodarJodar – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Andrej MartinMartin (3-6 6-1 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur GeaGea – Diego Dedura-PalomeroDedura-Palomero (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Alexey VatutinVatutin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Max HoukesHoukes (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Henri SquireSquire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Christoph NegrituNegritu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matias SotoSoto – (0-0) – H2H and prediction