Alex Molcan and Franco Roncadelli will square off in the quarter of the Sofia 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Molcan who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Molcan is the pick to win this match.
Alex Molcan -> 1.3
Franco Roncadelli -> 3.28

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Prediction and head to head Alex Molcan vs. Franco Roncadelli

There is no head to head record between Alex Molcan and Franco Roncadelli since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Alex Molcan

Ranked no. 362, Alex got to the quarter after beating S D Prajwal Dev 6-0 6-2

, Filip Pieczonka 6-3 6-1, Ivan Ivanov 6-2 7-6(2) and Alexander Vasilev 6-4 6-0.

In the 2^nd round, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Vasilev (6-4 6-0). During the match, Molcan scored 71 points vs Vasilev’s 49. The Slovakian was extremely aggressive to blast 16 winners.

Talking about the service games, Molcan was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Alex Molcan lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Molcan put 45% of his first serves in, winning 70% (16/23) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Vasilev 5 times after converting 26% of his break points (5/19).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alex started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 60% of the points he played.

Molcan has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (283-181). 35-10 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Molcan has an overall 189-105 record in the last years on clay.

Molcan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Reggio Emilia.

Alex has an overall 35-11 win-loss record in 2025, 35-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sofia 2 Challenger

Molcan has never competed in this tournament before.

Franco Roncadelli

Ranked no. 400, the Uruguayan reached the quarter after defeating Adil Kalyanpur 6-2 6-7(5) 6-2, Jozef Kovalik 7-5 6-2, Dimitar Kuzmanov 3-6 6-3 6-1 and Marco Cecchinato 6-2 7-6(4).

In the 2^nd round, Franco had a good straight sets win against Cecchinato (6-2 7-6⁴). During the match Roncadelli scored 81 points vs Cecchinato’s 67. Franco was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Roncadelli wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Franco Roncadelli lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Roncadelli put 77% of his first serves in, winning 64% (34/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. The Uruguayan broke Cecchinato 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Uruguayan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Franco’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger,M25+H Bacau and M25 Pitesti.

The Uruguayan has an overall 30-18 win-loss record in 2025, 29-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Molcan	Roncadelli
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	8	10
Tot Games	67	95
Pts	278-188	346-284
Total Points	466	630
Winners	82	135
%Winners	29%	39%

Both Molcan and Roncadelli played 4 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Franco Roncadelli dropped 2 sets while Alex Molcan hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Molcan has played 2 set(s) less than Roncadelli (8 vs 10). Therefore, Molcan played 28 games less than Roncadelli. Alex scored 82 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, The Uruguayan made 135 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Molcan	Roncadelli
Aces	15	0
Avg per match	3.8	0
1st in	110/203	211/297
%1st in	54%	71%
1st pts	82/110	135/211
%1st pts	75%	64%
2nd pts	58/93	46/86
%2nd pts	62%	53%

Molcan scored 15 aces (3.8 per match). Roncadelli didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Molcan won 75% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Roncadelli won 64% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Molcan	Roncadelli
Won	19	23
Converted	19/54	23/58
% Converted	35%	40%
Conceded	14	29
Saved	10	18
% Saved	71%	62%
Times Broken	4	11

Molcan broke his opponents 19 times with a 35% conversion rate. Molcan dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Roncadelli broke his opponents 23 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Uruguayan conceded his serve 11 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded.

Molcan
	Q1 D Prajwal Dev	Q3 Pieczonka	R1 Ivanov	R2 Vasilev	Total
Score	6-0 6-2	6-3 6-1	6-2 7-62	6-4 6-0
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	14	16	21	16	67
pts	59-30	62-39	86-70	71-49	278-188
Total points	89	101	156	120	466
Winners	17	21	28	16	82
%Winners	29%	34%	33%	23%	29%
SERVE
Aces	5	5	5	0	15
Double Faults	3	1	1	1	6
1st in	22/46	29/49	36/57	23/51	110/203
% 1st in	48%	59%	63%	45%	54%
1st pts	17/22	21/29	28/36	16/23	82/110
% 1st pts	77%	72%	78%	70%	75%
2nd pts	16/24	11/20	13/21	18/28	58/93
% 2nd pts	67%	55%	62%	64%	62%
Breaks
Won	5	6	3	5	19
Converted	5/6	6/13	3/16	5/19	19/54
Converted %	83%	46%	19%	26%	35%
Conceded	5	5	2	2	14
Saved	5/5	3/5	1/2	1/2	10
Saved %	100%	60%	50%	50%	65%
Times Broken	0	2	1	1	4

Roncadelli
	Q1 Kalyanpur	Q3 Kovalik	R1 Kuzmanov	R2 Cecchinato	Total
Score	6-2 6-75 6-2	7-5 6-2	3-6 6-3 6-1	6-2 7-64
Tot Set	3	2	3	2	10
Tot Games	29	20	25	21	95
pts	105-84	74-57	86-76	81-67	346-284
Total points	189	131	162	148	630
Winners	36	32	33	34	135
%Winners	34%	43%	38%	42%	39%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	0	0	0
Double Faults	1	1	1	0	3
1st in	61/90	44/62	53/76	53/69	211/297
% 1st in	68%	71%	70%	77%	71%
1st pts	36/61	32/44	33/53	34/53	135/211
% 1st pts	59%	73%	62%	64%	64%
2nd pts	18/29	7/18	11/23	10/16	46/86
% 2nd pts	62%	39%	48%	63%	53%
Breaks
Won	8	5	7	3	23
Converted	8/17	5/13	7/15	3/13	23/58
Converted %	47%	38%	47%	23%	40%
Conceded	8	7	9	5	29
Saved	4/8	5/7	5/9	4/5	18
Saved %	50%	71%	56%	80%	64%
Times Broken	4	2	4	1	11

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