Max Houkes and Giovanni Fonio will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Milan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 10. 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 -> 1.7
Max Houkes -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Max Houkes vs. Giovanni Fonio
This will be the 2nd time that Max Houkes and Giovanni Fonio square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Fonio (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Fonio won 1-6 7-6(1) 6-2 in the qualifications in the Naples Challenger back in March 2025.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-21 | 0-0 | 26-19 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-17 | 0-0 | 44-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 256, the Dutch will start his run in the Milan Challenger after he played his last match in S Hertogenbosch where he lost 6-2 6-0 to Blockx in the qualifications on the 8th of June.
The Dutch has a compiled 21-17 win-loss record in 2025, 21-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Houkes’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
Talking about his overall career, Houkes has an overall 270-145 record. He has a positive 256-126 record on clay.
Previously in the Milan Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Giovanni Fonio
27 - 15win/loss
382
269
LWLWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-18 | 6-3 | 20-13 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-33 | 12-8 | 24-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-39 | 22-12 | 28-26 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 0-0 | 40-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 378, Giovanni got to the 1st round after beating Gianluca Mager 6-3 6-3 and Tom Gentzsch 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Gentzsch (6-2 6-2). During the match Fonio scored 69 points vs Gentzsch’s 49. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Fonio recorded 5 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Giovanni Fonio was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Giovanni broke Gentzsch 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fonio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Fonio’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
Giovanni has a composed 27-15 win-loss record in 2025, 18-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Milan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022 and 2024. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- 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
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Gabriele PirainoPiraino (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Henri SquireSquire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Matias SotoSoto – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
