Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Daniel Michalski will square off in the 1st round of the Trieste Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniel Michalski who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Daniel Michalski is the pick to win this match.
Daniel Michalski -> 1.82
Santiago Rodriguez Taverna -> 1.909

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Prediction and head to head Santiago Rodriguez Taverna vs. Daniel Michalski

This will be the 2nd time that Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Daniel Michalski play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rodriguez Taverna (see full H2H stats

), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they played, Rodriguez Taverna won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in the Braga Challenger back in 2021.

Santiago Rodriguez Taverna

Santiago Rodriguez Taverna

36 - 22win/loss

Hard
4-2
I Hard
0-0
Clay
32-19
Grass
0-1
Rank
233
High
157
LWLLLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 51-40 4-4 47-35 0-0 0-1 0-0
2024 32-35 4-5 28-29 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 41-35 7-7 34-27 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 36-27 0-2 35-24 0-0 1-1 0-0
2021 67-26 40-16 26-9 1-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 191, Santiago will start his run in the Trieste Challenger after he played his last match in the Brasov Challenger where he lost 6-3 3-6 6-3 to Gueymard Wayenburg in the 1st round on the 30th of June.

The Argentine has a composed 36-22 win-loss record in 2025, 32-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title the Porto Alegre Challenger where he beat Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo in the final 4-6 6-4 7-6(6).

Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 325-229 record. He has a positive 249-176 record on clay.

Previously in the Trieste Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.

Trieste Challenger
Rodriguez Taverna's Record

Daniel Michalski

Daniel Michalski

30 - 17win/loss

Hard
2-2
I Hard
0-0
Clay
28-15
Rank
258
High
243
LWLLWWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 52-30 5-3 47-27 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 39-26 1-6 36-19 2-1 0-0 0-0
2023 40-25 4-6 36-18 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 51-24 0-0 51-24 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 47-25 0-3 47-20 0-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 297, Daniel reached the 1st round after defeating Francesco Forti 6-0 6-4 and Alessandro Pecci 7-6(5) 6-4.

In the qualifications, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Pecci (7-65 6-4). During the match Michalski scored 83 points vs Pecci’s 69. Michalski was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Michalski scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Daniel Michalski was very effective on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 66% (21/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Daniel broke Pecci 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Pole started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Michalski’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Antalya.

Daniel has a compiled 30-17 win-loss record in 2025, 28-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Trieste Challenger
Michalski's Record

Tennis Scores in Trieste Challenger

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