Giovanni Fonio and Gabriele Pennaforti will square off in the qualifications of the Genova Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giovanni Fonio who should win in 2 sets.
Giovanni Fonio -> 1.24
Gabriele Pennaforti -> 3.72
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Prediction and head to head Giovanni Fonio vs. Gabriele Pennaforti
There is no head to head record between Giovanni Fonio and Gabriele Pennaforti since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Giovanni Fonio
35 - 21win/loss
431
269
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-24 | 6-3 | 27-19 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-33 | 12-8 | 24-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-39 | 22-12 | 28-26 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 0-0 | 40-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 407, the Italian got to the qualifications after defeating Parikshit Somani 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Fonio had a good straight sets win against Somani (6-3 6-2). During the match, Fonio scored 66 points vs Somani’s 47. Giovanni was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fonio fired 9 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Giovanni Fonio was very efficient on serve to win 89% (25/28) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Somani 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Fonio has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (337-238). 26-16 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Fonio has a composed 251-181 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
Giovanni has an overall 35-21 win-loss record in 2025, 26-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Gabriele Pennaforti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-29 | 0-0 | 36-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-27 | 0-0 | 46-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-28 | 2-3 | 47-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-26 | 12-11 | 26-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-8 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 472, the Italian reached the qualifications after defeating Adil Kalyanpur 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Kalyanpur (6-1 6-2). During the match Pennaforti scored 55 points vs Kalyanpur’s 26. Pennaforti was exceptionally aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Pennaforti scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Gabriele Pennaforti was extremely effective on serve to win 89% (17/19) of his 1st serve and 79% (11/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pennaforti broke Kalyanpur 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Pennaforti’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Valencia and M25 Bolzano.
The Italian has an overall 31-23 win-loss record in 2025, 31-23 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Genova Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fonio | Pennaforti |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 15 |
| Pts | 66-47 | 55-26 |
| Total Points | 113 | 81 |
| Winners | 25 | 17 |
| %Winners | 38% | 31% |
Both Fonio and Pennaforti 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, Fonio and Pennaforti have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Fonio played 2 games more than Pennaforti. The Italian scored 25 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Gabriele fired 17 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fonio | Pennaforti |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 1 |
| 1st in | 28/55 | 19/33 |
| %1st in | 51% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 25/28 | 17/19 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 11/14 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 79% |
Fonio blasted 9 aces . Pennaforti made 1 ace . Fonio won 89% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Pennaforti won 89% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 79% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fonio | Pennaforti |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 30% | 83% |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Fonio broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Giovanni was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 5 break points. The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Fonio | |||
| Q1 Somani | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-47 | 66-47 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 28/55 | 28/55 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 25/28 | 25/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Pennaforti | |||
| Q1 Kalyanpur | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 55-26 | 55-26 | |
| Total points | 81 | 81 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 19/33 | 19/33 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 17/19 | 17/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/14 | 11/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 79% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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