Thiago Moura Monteiro and Marco Cecchinato will square off in the 1st round of the Lisbon Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT LISBOA. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thiago Moura Monteiro who should win in 3 sets.
Thiago Moura Monteiro -> 1.86
Marco Cecchinato -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Thiago Moura Monteiro vs. Marco Cecchinato
This will be the 4th time that Thiago Moura Monteiro and Marco Cecchinato fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Moura Monteiro (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Cecchinato won 7-6(1) 3-6 6-1 in the 1st round in the Modena Challenger back in July 2025.
Thiago Moura Monteiro
24 - 26win/loss
186
61
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-30 | 3-4 | 23-25 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-28 | 1-3 | 33-17 | 4-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 3-7 | 30-22 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-33 | 8-8 | 28-16 | 4-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-27 | 8-8 | 25-18 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 170, Moura Monteiro will start his run in the Lisbon Challenger after he played his last match in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-7(2) 6-0 to Andres Burruchaga in the 2nd round on the 18th of September.
Thiago has a composed 24-26 win-loss record in 2025, 21-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Moura Monteiro’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Santiago Challenger and the Asuncion Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Moura Monteiro has an overall 527-392 record. He has a positive 430-282 record on clay.
Previously in the Lisbon Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Marco Cecchinato
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-34 | 0-0 | 39-34 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-25 | 0-2 | 26-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-23 | 1-4 | 12-17 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-33 | 0-3 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-27 | 1-5 | 31-19 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 275, Cecchinato got to the 1st round after defeating Tiago Cacao 6-4 7-5 and Duje Ajdukovic 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, Marco had a good straight sets win against Ajdukovic (6-0 6-3). During the match Cecchinato scored 67 points vs Ajdukovic’s 45. Marco was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Cecchinato scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Marco Cecchinato was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (21/29) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cecchinato broke Ajdukovic 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Milan Challenger where he defeated Dino Prizmic in the final 6-2 6-3.
Cecchinato has a compiled 33-28 win-loss record in 2025, 33-28 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Lisbon Challenger
- Tiago PereiraPereira – Elmer MollerMoller (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vilius GaubasGaubas – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Jerome KymKym (6-2 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henrique RochaRocha – Pedro AraujoAraujo (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco RochaRocha – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (1-4) – H2H and prediction