Stefano Travaglia and Gianluca Cadenasso will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Genova Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm 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 Stefano Travaglia who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Stefano Travaglia is the pick to win this match.
Stefano Travaglia -> 1.33
Gianluca Cadenasso -> 3.1

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Prediction and head to head Stefano Travaglia vs. Gianluca Cadenasso

There is no head to head record between Stefano Travaglia and Gianluca Cadenasso since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Stefano Travaglia

Ranked no. 208, Travaglia got to the 2^nd round after beating Duje Ajdukovic 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Stefano had a good straight sets win against Ajdukovic (6-3 6-4). During the match, Travaglia scored 72 points vs Ajdukovic’s 54. Stefano was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about the service games, Travaglia struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Stefano Travaglia was exceptionally effective on serve to win 73% (29/40) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Ajdukovic 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Travaglia has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (364-247). 27-16 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Travaglia has a compiled 252-145 record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Modena Challenger where he beat Thiago Seyboth Wild in the final 6-4 6-3.

Stefano has a compiled 27-17 win-loss record in 2025, 27-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Genova Challenger

Gianluca Cadenasso

Ranked no. 531, Cadenasso reached the 2^nd round after defeating Franco Agamenone 6-4 2-6 6-2, Giovanni Oradini 6-3 4-6 6-3 and Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Cadenasso had a good straight sets win against Budkov Kjaer (6-4 6-4). During the match Cadenasso scored 71 points vs Budkov Kjaer’s 57. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Cadenasso couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Gianluca Cadenasso lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Cadenasso put 63% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (17/24) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Budkov Kjaer 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

The Italian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Store.

Gianluca has an overall 24-16 win-loss record in 2025, 19-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Genova Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Travaglia	Cadenasso
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	8
Tot Games	19	74
Pts	72-54	250-221
Total Points	126	471
Winners	29	75
%Winners	40%	30%

Travaglia played 1 match while Cadenasso competed in 3 matches. Cadenasso started his run from the qualifications while Travaglia had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Gianluca Cadenasso conceded 2 sets while Stefano Travaglia hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Travaglia has played 6 set(s) less than Cadenasso (2 vs 8). Therefore, Travaglia played 55 games less than Cadenasso. Travaglia scored 29 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Cadenasso fired 75 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Travaglia	Cadenasso
Aces	5	0
Avg per match	5	0
1st in	40/62	125/221
%1st in	65%	57%
1st pts	29/40	75/125
%1st pts	73%	60%
2nd pts	13/22	57/96
%2nd pts	59%	59%

Travaglia bagged 5 aces . Cadenasso didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Travaglia won 73% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Cadenasso won 60% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Travaglia	Cadenasso
Won	3	16
Converted	3/9	16/41
% Converted	33%	39%
Conceded	5	22
Saved	4	11
% Saved	80%	50%
Times Broken	1	11

Travaglia broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Stefano surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Cadenasso broke his opponents 16 times with a 39% conversion rate. Cadenasso conceded his serve 11 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Travaglia
	R1 Ajdukovic	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	72-54	72-54
Total points	126	126
Winners	29	29
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	40/62	40/62
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	29/40	29/40
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	13/22	13/22
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

Cadenasso
	Q1 Agamenone	Q3 Oradini	R1 Budkov	Total
Score	6-4 2-6 6-2	6-3 4-6 6-3	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	3	3	2	8
Tot Games	26	28	20	74
pts	95-89	84-75	71-57	250-221
Total points	184	159	128	471
Winners	20	28	27	75
%Winners	21%	33%	38%	30%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	0	0
Double Faults	8	5	2	15
1st in	40/78	45/79	40/64	125/221
% 1st in	51%	57%	63%	57%
1st pts	20/40	28/45	27/40	75/125
% 1st pts	50%	62%	68%	60%
2nd pts	20/38	20/34	17/24	57/96
% 2nd pts	53%	59%	71%	59%
Breaks
Won	7	6	3	16
Converted	7/20	6/11	3/10	16/41
Converted %	35%	55%	30%	39%
Conceded	14	5	3	22
Saved	8/14	1/5	2/3	11
Saved %	57%	20%	67%	144%
Times Broken	6	4	1	11

Tennis Scores in Genova Challenger

• Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tom GentzschGentzsch – Francesco FortiForti (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrea PicchionePicchione – Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction