Francesco Passaro and Nicolai Budkov Kjaer will play each other in the quarter of the Mouilleron for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolai Budkov Kjaer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nicolai Budkov Kjaer is the pick to win this match.
Nicolai Budkov Kjaer -> 1.83
Francesco Passaro -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Francesco Passaro vs. Nicolai Budkov Kjaer

This will be the 2^nd time that Francesco Passaro and Nicolai Budkov Kjaer fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Budkov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played each other, Budkov won 7-6(4) 4-6 6-0 in the 1^st round in the Montemar Challenger back in 2024.

Francesco Passaro

Ranked no. 139, Francesco reached the quarter after defeating Chris Rodesch 6-3 7-6(6) and Robert Strombachs 5-7 6-3 7-6(0).

In the 2^nd round against Strombachs, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 7-6⁰). During the match, Passaro scored 102 points vs Strombachs’s 101. Passaro was very aggressive to blast 65 winners.

Regarding the service games, Passaro buried his opponent with 20 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Francesco Passaro lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Passaro put 70% of his first serves in, winning 79% (65/82) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (15/35) on the 2nd serve. Passaro was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Strombachs once.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Italian has conceded 1 set in this tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

Passaro has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 58% of his matches (207-152). 2-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Passaro has a composed6-7 win-loss record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Sassuolo Challenger.

Passaro has a composed 33-20 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Le

Passaro has never competed in this tournament before.

Nicolai Budkov Kjaer

Ranked no. 149 (career-high), the Norwegian reached the quarter after beating Nikolay Vylegzhanin 6-1 6-3

and Loann Massard 6-3 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, Budkov had a good straight sets win against Massard (6-3 6-2). During the match Budkov scored 59 points vs Massard’s 45. Nicolai was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Budkov managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicolai Budkov Kjaer was very efficient on serve to win 82% (28/34) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nicolai broke Massard 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Nicolai hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Glasgow Challenger where he overcame Viktor Durasovic in the final 6-4 6-3 and the Tampere Challenger where he defeated Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg in the final 7-6(5) 6-7(2) 6-2 and the Astana Challenger where he beat Alexandr Binda in the final 6-4 6-3.

Nicolai has an overall 45-23 win-loss record in 2025, 17-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Le

The Norwegian has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Passaro	Budkov
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	5	4
Tot Games	56	33
Pts	175-164	126-87
Total Points	339	213
Winners	103	51
%Winners	59%	40%

Both Passaro and Budkov played 2 matches. At the moment, Francesco Passaro surrendered 1 set while Nicolai Budkov Kjaer hasn’t conceded a set so far. Passaro has played 1 set more than Budkov (5 vs 4). Therefore, Passaro played 23 games more than Budkov. The Italian scored 103 winners (59% of the total points). On the other side, Nicolai fired 51 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Passaro	Budkov
Aces	24	15
Avg per match	12	7.5
1st in	130/184	61/95
%1st in	71%	64%
1st pts	103/130	51/61
%1st pts	79%	84%
2nd pts	27/54	21/34
%2nd pts	50%	62%

Passaro blasted 24 aces (12 per match). Budkov fired 15 aces (7.5 per match). Passaro won 79% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Budkov won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Passaro	Budkov
Won	2	7
Converted	2/2	7/23
% Converted	100%	30%
Conceded	9	5
Saved	8	5
% Saved	89%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Francesco broke his opponents twice with a 100% conversion rate. Francesco lost his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. Nicolai broke his opponents 7 times with a 30% conversion rate. Budkov was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.

Passaro
	R1 Rodesch	R2 Strombachs	Total
Score	6-3 7-66	5-7 6-3 7-60
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	22	34	56
pts	73-63	102-101	175-164
Total points	136	203	339
Winners	38	65	103
%Winners	52%	64%	59%
SERVE
Aces	4	20	24
Double Faults	0	0	0
1st in	48/67	82/117	130/184
% 1st in	72%	70%	71%
1st pts	38/48	65/82	103/130
% 1st pts	79%	79%	79%
2nd pts	12/19	15/35	27/54
% 2nd pts	63%	43%	50%
Breaks
Won	1	1	2
Converted	1/1	1/1	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%	100%
Conceded	1	8	9
Saved	1/1	7/8	8
Saved %	100%	88%	94%
Times Broken	0	1	1

Budkov
	R1 Vylegzhanin	R2 Massard	Total
Score	6-1 6-3	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	16	17	33
pts	67-42	59-45	126-87
Total points	109	104	213
Winners	23	28	51
%Winners	34%	47%	40%
SERVE
Aces	9	6	15
Double Faults	0	2	2
1st in	27/42	34/53	61/95
% 1st in	64%	64%	64%
1st pts	23/27	28/34	51/61
% 1st pts	85%	82%	84%
2nd pts	10/15	11/19	21/34
% 2nd pts	67%	58%	62%
Breaks
Won	4	3	7
Converted	4/17	3/6	7/23
Converted %	24%	50%	30%
Conceded	1	4	5
Saved	1/1	4/4	5
Saved %	100%	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0	0

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