Francisco Cerundolo and Carlos Taberner will play each other in the 2nd round of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on G IVANISEVIC STADIUM STUDENAC ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.22
Carlos Taberner -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Carlos Taberner
There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Carlos Taberner since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Francisco Cerundolo
29 - 16win/loss
21
18
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-25 | 12-8 | 21-11 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-31 | 5-10 | 21-13 | 9-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-26 | 10-10 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 7-8 | 25-10 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-24 | 3-2 | 39-21 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19, Francisco will start his run in Umag after he played his last match in Bastad where he lost 6-2 3-6 7-6(3) to Darderi in the semifinal on the 19th of July.
Francisco has an overall 29-16 win-loss record in 2025, 21-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Francisco’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Buenos Aires.
Talking about his overall career, Cerundolo has an overall 342-183 record. He has a positive 276-120 record on clay.
Previously in Umag
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2024. See his history.
Carlos Taberner
30 - 17win/loss
103
83
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46-28 | 1-3 | 45-24 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-36 | 0-3 | 46-31 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-23 | 3-4 | 22-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-33 | 1-2 | 29-27 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-25 | 3-4 | 33-15 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 111, the Spaniard reached the 2nd round after beating Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4 7-6(1).
In the 1st round, Carlos had a good straight sets win against Herbert (6-4 7-61). During the match Taberner scored 80 points vs Herbert’s 62. Carlos was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Taberner scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Carlos Taberner was pretty effective on serve to win 84% (37/44) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Taberner broke Herbert twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Murcia Challenger where he beat Jesper De Jong in the final 7-6(3) 4-6 6-2 and the Sassuolo Challenger where he beat Dusan Lajovic in the final 7-6(1) 6-2.
The Spaniard has a composed 30-17 win-loss record in 2025, 29-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Umag
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Umag
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-75 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Terence AtmaneAtmane (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Titouan DroguetDroguet – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (1-0) – H2H and prediction