Filippo Romano and Fausto Tabacco will face off in the 1^st round of the Todi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on GRAND STAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Filippo Romano who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Filippo Romano is the pick to win this match.
Filippo Romano -> 1.55
Fausto Tabacco -> 2.33

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Prediction and head to head Filippo Romano vs. Fausto Tabacco

There is no head to head record between Filippo Romano and Fausto Tabacco since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Filippo Romano

Ranked no. 592, Filippo got to the 1^st

round after beating Arturo Umena 6-0 6-0 and Andrea Guerrieri 6-3 4-6 6-3.

Romano has a weak record in the last 4 years having won 47% of his matches (59-67). 22-14 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Romano has an aggregate35-41 match record in the last 4 years on clay.

Romano’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne and M25 Cervia.

Romano has a compiled 24-18 win-loss record in 2025, 22-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Todi Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Fausto Tabacco

Ranked no. 763, Tabacco got to the 1^st round after beating N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-1 6-2 and Andrea Picchione w/o.

In the qualifications, The Italian defeated Picchione (w/o). During the match Tabacco and Picchione scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 592 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Italian was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

Talking about serving, Tabacco couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Fausto Tabacco conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

Tabacco’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Manacor.

Tabacco has a composed 23-17 win-loss record in 2025, 7-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Romano	Tabacco
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	12	15
Pts	56-20	64-41
Total Points	76	105
Winners	16	25
%Winners	29%	39%

Both Romano and Tabacco played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Romano and Tabacco have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Romano played 3 games less than Tabacco. Filippo scored 16 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, Tabacco blasted 25 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Romano	Tabacco
Aces	5	3
Avg per match	5	3
1st in	18/30	36/50
%1st in	60%	72%
1st pts	16/18	25/36
%1st pts	89%	69%
2nd pts	9/12	8/14
%2nd pts	75%	57%

Romano made 5 aces . Tabacco fired 3 aces . Romano won 89% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Tabacco won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Romano	Tabacco
Won	6	5
Converted	6/13	5/11
% Converted	46%	45%
Conceded	2	5
Saved	2	4
% Saved	100%	80%
Times Broken	0	1

Romano broke his opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. The Italian extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Romano
	Q1 Umena	Q3 Guerrieri	Total
Score	6-0 6-0	6-3 4-6 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	12	28	40
pts	56-20	–	56-20
Total points	76	0	76
Winners	16		16
%Winners	29%	0%	29%
SERVE
Aces	5	0	5
Double Faults	2		2
1st in	18/30	/	18/30
% 1st in	60%	0%	60%
1st pts	16/18	/	16/18
% 1st pts	89%	0%	89%
2nd pts	9/12	/	9/12
% 2nd pts	75%	0%	75%
Breaks
Won	6		6
Converted	6/13	/	6/13
Converted %	46%	0%	46%
Conceded	2		2
Saved	2/2	0/	2
Saved %	100%	–	50%
Times Broken	0		0

Tabacco
	Q1 Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Q3 Picchione	Total
Score	6-1 6-2	w/o
Tot Set	2	–	2
Tot Games	15	–	15
pts	64-41	–	64-41
Total points	105	–	105
Winners	25	–	25
%Winners	39%	–	39%
SERVE
Aces	3	–	3
Double Faults	1	–	1
1st in	36/50	–	36/50
% 1st in	72%	–	72%
1st pts	25/36	–	25/36
% 1st pts	69%	–	69%
2nd pts	8/14	–	8/14
% 2nd pts	57%	–	57%
Breaks
Won	5	–	5
Converted	5/11	–	5/11
Converted %	45%	–	45%
Conceded	5	–	5
Saved	4/5	–	4
Saved %	80%	–	40%
Times Broken	1	–	1

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• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicolai Budkov KjaerBudkov Kjaer – Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres (6-2 4-6 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Tiago PereiraPereira (4-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matheus Pucinelli De AlmeidaPucinelli De Almeida – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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