Stefan Popovic and Massimo Giunta will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Biella Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CAMPO 3 BIELLA COLLEZIONI. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefan Popovic who should win in 3 sets.
Stefan Popovic -> 1.55
Massimo Giunta -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Stefan Popovic vs. Massimo Giunta
There is no head to head record between Stefan Popovic and Massimo Giunta since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Stefan Popovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-30 | 0-0 | 40-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-26 | 0-0 | 44-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-26 | 0-0 | 42-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-26 | 1-2 | 34-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 507, Stefan got to the qualifications after defeating Davide Malan 6-0 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Serbian had a good straight sets win against Malan (6-0 6-0). During the match, Popovic scored 48 points vs Malan’s 13. The Serbian was pretty aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popovic was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Stefan Popovic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (15/18) of his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Stefan broke Malan 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Popovic has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 59% of his matches (155-107). 31-23 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Popovic has an overall154-104 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Popovic’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M15 Kursumlijska Banja.
Stefan has an overall 31-23 win-loss record in 2025, 31-23 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Biella Challenger
Stefan has never competed in this tournament before.
Massimo Giunta
22 - 21win/loss
628
591
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-28 | 16-12 | 17-14 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-21 | 17-13 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-23 | 22-12 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 10-5 | 9-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 786, the Italian got to the qualifications after beating Yaroslav Demin 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Giunta had a good straight sets win against Demin (6-3 6-1). During the match Giunta scored 58 points vs Demin’s 41. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Giunta recorded 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Massimo Giunta was very effective on serve to win 76% (19/25) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Giunta broke Demin 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Giunta’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Casablanca.
The Italian has a composed 22-21 win-loss record in 2025, 11-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popovic | Giunta |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 12 | 16 |
| Pts | 48-13 | 58-41 |
| Total Points | 61 | 99 |
| Winners | 15 | 19 |
| %Winners | 31% | 33% |
Both Popovic and Giunta played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Popovic and Giunta have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Popovic played 4 games less than Giunta. Popovic scored 15 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 19 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popovic | Giunta |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 4 |
| 1st in | 18/30 | 25/47 |
| %1st in | 60% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 15/18 | 19/25 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 12/22 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 55% |
Popovic didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Giunta struck 4 aces . Popovic won 83% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Giunta won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popovic | Giunta |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 75% | 71% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Popovic broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Popovic pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Massimo broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Massimo conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popovic | |||
| Q1 Malan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 12 | |
| pts | 48-13 | 48-13 | |
| Total points | 61 | 61 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 18/30 | 18/30 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 15/18 | 15/18 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Giunta | |||
| Q1 Demin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-41 | 58-41 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 25/47 | 25/47 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 19/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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