Frederico Ferreira Silva and Marco Cecchinato will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Milan Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 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.

As per the initial odds, Marco Cecchinato is the pick to win this match.
Marco Cecchinato -> 1.74
Frederico Ferreira Silva -> 2

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Prediction and head to head Frederico Ferreira Silva vs. Marco Cecchinato

There is no head to head record between Frederico Ferreira Silva and Marco Cecchinato since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Frederico Ferreira Silva

Ranked no. 266, the Portuguese reached the 2^nd round after defeating Alexey Vatutin 6-3 1-1 ret..

In the 1^st round against Vatutin, the Portuguese had a free pass after Vatutin retired on a 6-3 1-1 . scoreline.

Ferreira Silva has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (339-219). 1-1 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ferreira Silva has an overall 129-102 match record in the last years on clay.

Frederico’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio.

Frederico has a compiled 15-6 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Milan Challenger

Marco Cecchinato

Ranked no. 437, the Italian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Max Alcala Gurri 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Alcala Gurri (6-4 6-1). During the match Cecchinato scored 65 points vs Alcala Gurri’s 49. Marco was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Cecchinato fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marco Cecchinato was quite effective on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marco broke Alcala Gurri 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Cecchinato’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger.

Cecchinato has a compiled 17-18 win-loss record in 2025, 17-18 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Milan Challenger

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ferreira Silva	Cecchinato
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	11	17
Pts	47-38	65-49
Total Points	85	114
Winners	19	24
%Winners	40%	37%

Both Ferreira Silva and Cecchinato played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Ferreira Silva has played 1 set more than Cecchinato (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Ferreira Silva played 6 games less than Cecchinato. Ferreira Silva scored 19 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Cecchinato blasted 24 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ferreira Silva	Cecchinato
Aces	1	2
Avg per match	1	2
1st in	23/32	30/53
%1st in	72%	57%
1st pts	19/23	24/30
%1st pts	83%	80%
2nd pts	4/9	14/23
%2nd pts	44%	61%

Ferreira Silva scored 1 ace . Cecchinato also struck 2 aces . Ferreira Silva won 83% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Cecchinato won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ferreira Silva	Cecchinato
Won	2	3
Converted	2/8	3/6
% Converted	25%	50%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1	1
% Saved	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Ferreira Silva broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Ferreira Silva quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Cecchinato broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Ferreira Silva
	R1 Vatutin	Total
Score	6-3 1-1 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	11	11
pts	47-38	47-38
Total points	85	85
Winners	19	19
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	23/32	23/32
% 1st in	72%	72%
1st pts	19/23	19/23
% 1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	4/9	4/9
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/8	2/8
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Cecchinato
	R1 Alcala	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	65-49	65-49
Total points	114	114
Winners	24	24
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	30/53	30/53
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	24/30	24/30
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	14/23	14/23
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Milan Challenger

• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-3 1-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Mili PoljicakPoljicak – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Mathys ErhardErhard (2-6 7-6⁷ 6-4) – See score progression
• Jacopo VasamiVasami – Andres Santamarta RoigSantamarta Roig (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Henri SquireSquire (7-6⁵ ret.) – See score progression
• Max HoukesHoukes – Giovanni FonioFonio (3-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Thomas FaurelFaurel – Federico BondioliBondioli (6-3 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Tiago PereiraPereira – Matias SotoSoto (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Luka MikrutMikrut – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Gabriele PirainoPiraino (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Rafael JodarJodar – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Andrej MartinMartin (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Arthur GeaGea – Diego Dedura-PalomeroDedura-Palomero (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Mathys ErhardErhard (2-6 7-6(7) 6-4) – See score progression
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-3 1-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Thomas FaurelFaurel – Federico BondioliBondioli (6-3 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Max HoukesHoukes – Giovanni FonioFonio (3-6 6-3 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Jacopo VasamiVasami – Andres Santamarta RoigSantamarta Roig (6-3 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – (1-1) – H2H and prediction