Federico Bondioli and Cezar Cretu will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Montemar Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cezar Cretu who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cezar Cretu is the pick to win this match.
Cezar Cretu -> 1.64
Federico Bondioli -> 2.1

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Prediction and head to head Federico Bondioli vs. Cezar Cretu

There is no head to head record between Federico Bondioli and Cezar Cretu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Federico Bondioli

Ranked no. 400, Federico got to the 1^st round after defeating Mustapha El Natour 6-1 6-0 and Filippo Moroni 4-6 6-0 7-5.

Bondioli has a winning record in the last 4 years having won 53% of his matches (97-86). 34-24 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Bondioli has a composed58-52 match record in the last 4 years on clay.

Federico’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 San Gregorio di Catania.

Federico has a composed 43-34 win-loss record in 2025, 34-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Montemar Challenger

Bondioli has never competed in this tournament before.

Cezar Cretu

Ranked no. 403, the Romanian reached the 1^st round after defeating Adrian Oetzbach 6-3 6-2 and Jonas Forejtek 3-6 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications against Forejtek, Cretu recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-2). During the match Cretu scored 95 points vs Forejtek’s 88. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 49 winners.

About the serving games, Cretu managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Cezar Cretu lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Cretu put 71% of his first serves in, winning 68% (49/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (12/29) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Forejtek 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cretu started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Cezar’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Bistrita,M15 Targu Jiu,M15 Arad,M15 Bucharest and M15 Bol.

The Romanian has an overall 50-23 win-loss record in 2025, 44-19 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bondioli	Cretu
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	13	43
Pts	50-22	154-128
Total Points	72	282
Winners	18	68
%Winners	36%	44%

Bondioli played 1 match while Cretu competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Cezar Cretu lost 1 set while Federico Bondioli hasn’t conceded a set so far. Bondioli has played 3 set(s) less than Cretu (2 vs 5). Therefore, Bondioli played 30 games less than Cretu. The Italian scored 18 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian made 68 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bondioli	Cretu
Aces	0	7
Avg per match	0	3.5
1st in	21/33	99/149
%1st in	64%	66%
1st pts	18/21	68/99
%1st pts	86%	69%
2nd pts	7/12	27/50
%2nd pts	58%	54%

Bondioli didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Cretu fired 7 aces (3.5 per match). Bondioli won 86% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Cretu won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bondioli	Cretu
Won	6	8
Converted	6/7	8/17
% Converted	86%	47%
Conceded	0	9
Saved	0	6
% Saved	0%	67%
Times Broken	0	3

Bondioli broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Federico was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Cretu broke his opponents 8 times with a 47% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Bondioli
	Q1 El	Q3 Moroni	Total
Score	6-1 6-0	4-6 6-0 7-5
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	13	28	41
pts	50-22	–	50-22
Total points	72	0	72
Winners	18		18
%Winners	36%	0%	36%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	0
Double Faults	3		3
1st in	21/33	/	21/33
% 1st in	64%	0%	64%
1st pts	18/21	/	18/21
% 1st pts	86%	0%	86%
2nd pts	7/12	/	7/12
% 2nd pts	58%	0%	58%
Breaks
Won	6		6
Converted	6/7	/	6/7
Converted %	86%	0%	86%
Conceded	0		0
Saved	0/0	0/	0
Saved %	–	–	0%
Times Broken	0		0

Cretu
	Q1 Oetzbach	Q3 Forejtek	Total
Score	6-3 6-2	3-6 6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	17	26	43
pts	59-40	95-88	154-128
Total points	99	183	282
Winners	19	49	68
%Winners	32%	52%	44%
SERVE
Aces	3	4	7
Double Faults	2	5	7
1st in	27/48	72/101	99/149
% 1st in	56%	71%	66%
1st pts	19/27	49/72	68/99
% 1st pts	70%	68%	69%
2nd pts	15/21	12/29	27/50
% 2nd pts	71%	41%	54%
Breaks
Won	4	4	8
Converted	4/6	4/11	8/17
Converted %	67%	36%	47%
Conceded	2	7	9
Saved	1/2	5/7	6
Saved %	50%	71%	61%
Times Broken	1	2	3

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