
Max Houkes and Marco Cecchinato will square off in the 2nd round of the Modena Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and 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 -> 1.49
Max Houkes -> 2.48
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Prediction and head to head Max Houkes vs. Marco Cecchinato
This will be the 2nd time that Max Houkes and Marco Cecchinato fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cecchinato (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cecchinato won 6-4 6-2 in the quarter in the Milan Challenger back in June 2025.
Max Houkes
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 25-18 | 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. 245 (career-high), Houkes reached the 2nd round after beating Federico Agustin Gomez 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Max had a good straight sets win against Agustin Gomez (6-4 6-3). During the match, Houkes scored 63 points vs Agustin Gomez’s 52. The Dutch was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Houkes scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Max Houkes was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Houkes broke Agustin Gomez 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Houkes has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (273-146). 24-16 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Houkes has an overall259-127 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
Houkes’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
The Dutch has a compiled 24-18 win-loss record in 2025, 24-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Modena Challenger
Marco Cecchinato
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 24-20 | 0-0 | 24-20 | 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. 300, Marco got to the 2nd round after defeating Thiago Moura Monteiro 7-6(1) 3-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Italian defeated Moura Monteiro (7-61 3-6 6-1). During the match Cecchinato scored 98 points vs Moura Monteiro’s 82. Marco was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Cecchinato struck 3 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Marco Cecchinato was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Cecchinato broke Moura Monteiro 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Milan Challenger where he defeated Dino Prizmic in the final 6-2 6-3.
Marco has an overall 22-18 win-loss record in 2025, 22-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Modena Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Houkes | Cecchinato |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
Tot Games | 19 | 29 |
Pts | 63-52 | 98-82 |
Total Points | 115 | 180 |
Winners | 24 | 39 |
%Winners | 38% | 40% |
Both Houkes and Cecchinato played 1 match. At the moment, Marco Cecchinato dropped 1 set while Max Houkes hasn’t conceded a set so far. Houkes has played 1 set(s) less than Cecchinato (2 vs 3). Therefore, Houkes played 10 games less than Cecchinato. Max scored 24 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Cecchinato recorded 39 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Houkes | Cecchinato |
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Aces | 1 | 3 |
Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
1st in | 32/60 | 52/92 |
%1st in | 53% | 57% |
1st pts | 24/32 | 39/52 |
%1st pts | 75% | 75% |
2nd pts | 16/28 | 22/40 |
%2nd pts | 57% | 55% |
Houkes made 1 ace . Cecchinato also struck 3 aces . Houkes won 75% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Cecchinato won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Houkes | Cecchinato |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 3 |
Converted | 3/8 | 3/6 |
% Converted | 38% | 50% |
Conceded | 3 | 8 |
Saved | 2 | 6 |
% Saved | 67% | 75% |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Max broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Max dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Cecchinato conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
Houkes | |||
R1 Agustin |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 63-52 | 63-52 | |
Total points | 115 | 115 | |
Winners | 24 | 24 | |
%Winners | 38% | 38% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 32/60 | 32/60 | |
% 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
% 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 16/28 | 16/28 | |
% 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Cecchinato | |||
R1 Moura Monteiro |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-61 3-6 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
pts | 98-82 | 98-82 | |
Total points | 180 | 180 | |
Winners | 39 | 39 | |
%Winners | 40% | 40% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
1st in | 52/92 | 52/92 | |
% 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
1st pts | 39/52 | 39/52 | |
% 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 22/40 | 22/40 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
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