Francesco Passaro and Emil Ruusuvuori will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Emil Ruusuvuori who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Emil Ruusuvuori is the pick to win this match.
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 1.68
Francesco Passaro -> 2.1

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Prediction and head to head Francesco Passaro vs. Emil Ruusuvuori

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

The last time that they played, Passaro won 7-5 7-6(4) in the 2^nd round in the Turin Challenger back in 2024.

Francesco Passaro

Ranked no. 139, Passaro got to the 2^nd round after beating Jaime Faria 6-3 3-6 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Italian defeated Faria (6-3 3-6 6-3). During the match, Passaro scored 89 points vs Faria’s 82. Passaro was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Talking about the service games, Passaro overwhelmed his opponent with 20 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Francesco Passaro lost the serve once and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Passaro put 61% of his first serves in, winning 80% (47/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (17/37) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Faria twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Passaro has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 58% of his matches (209-154). 4-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Passaro has an overall8-9 win-loss record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

Francesco’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Sassuolo Challenger.

The Italian has an aggregate 35-22 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Brest Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Emil Ruusuvuori

Ranked no. 612, the Finn reached the 2^nd round after defeating Vitaliy Sachko 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Ruusuvuori had a good straight sets win against Sachko (6-4 6-4). During the match Ruusuvuori scored 59 points vs Sachko’s 52. The Finn was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Ruusuvuori fired 13 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Emil Ruusuvuori conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Ruusuvuori put 67% of his first serves in, winning 85% (34/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Emil was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sachko twice.

Ruusuvuori has an aggregate 10-14 win-loss record in 2025, 7-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Passaro	Ruusuvuori
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	27	20
Pts	89-82	59-52
Total Points	171	111
Winners	47	34
%Winners	53%	58%

Both Passaro and Ruusuvuori played 1 match. At the moment, Francesco Passaro conceded 1 set while Emil Ruusuvuori hasn’t lost a set so far. Passaro has played 1 set more than Ruusuvuori (3 vs 2). Therefore, Passaro played 7 games more than Ruusuvuori. Francesco scored 47 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, The Finn scored 34 winners (58%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Passaro	Ruusuvuori
Aces	20	13
Avg per match	20	13
1st in	59/96	40/60
%1st in	61%	67%
1st pts	47/59	34/40
%1st pts	80%	85%
2nd pts	17/37	9/20
%2nd pts	46%	45%

Passaro blasted 20 aces . Ruusuvuori recorded 13 aces . Passaro won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Ruusuvuori won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Passaro	Ruusuvuori
Won	2	2
Converted	2/4	2/2
% Converted	50%	100%
Conceded	9	3
Saved	8	3
% Saved	89%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

The Italian broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Francesco conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. Ruusuvuori broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Emil was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Passaro
	R1 Faria	Total
Score	6-3 3-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	27	27
pts	89-82	89-82
Total points	171	171
Winners	47	47
%Winners	53%	53%
SERVE
Aces	20	20
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	59/96	59/96
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	47/59	47/59
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	17/37	17/37
% 2nd pts	46%	46%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/4	2/4
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	8/9	8
Saved %	89%	89%
Times Broken	1	1

Ruusuvuori
	R1 Sachko	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	59-52	59-52
Total points	111	111
Winners	34	34
%Winners	58%	58%
SERVE
Aces	13	13
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	40/60	40/60
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	34/40	34/40
% 1st pts	85%	85%
2nd pts	9/20	9/20
% 2nd pts	45%	45%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Brest Challenger

• Hugo GastonGaston – Calvin HemeryHemery (6-1 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (3-6 7-6(3) 6-3) – See score progression
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 3-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Clement TaburTabur – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (4-6 7-6⁵ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Joshua Paris/Jack WithrowParis/Jack Withrow – Diego Hidalgo/Patrik TrhacHidalgo/Patrik Trhac (6-7⁵ 6-3 10-7) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (3-6 7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Arthur BouquierBouquier – Moez EcharguiEchargui (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Alexey VatutinVatutin (2-6 7-6³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Jaime FariaFaria (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• August HolmgrenHolmgren – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Mae MaligeMalige – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 3-6 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Alexey VatutinVatutin (2-6 7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (3-6 7-6(3) 6-3) – See score progression
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Jaime FariaFaria (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Hugo GastonGaston – Calvin HemeryHemery (6-1 7-6(6)) – See score progression
• Clement TaburTabur – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (4-6 7-6(5) 7-6(3)) – See score progression
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 6-1) – See score progression

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• Moez EcharguiEchargui – Arthur BouquierBouquier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Francesco PassaroPassaro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Clement TaburTabur – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – August HolmgrenHolmgren (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Harry WendelkenWendelken (0-0) – H2H and prediction