Marco Trungelliti and Cezar Cretu will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Montemar Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on IVAN NAVARRO COURT. 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 Marco Trungelliti who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marco Trungelliti is the pick to win this match.
Marco Trungelliti -> 1.47
Cezar Cretu -> 2.46

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Prediction and head to head Marco Trungelliti vs. Cezar Cretu

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

Marco Trungelliti

Ranked no. 135, Trungelliti got to the 2^nd round after beating Filip Cristian Jianu 7-5 6-7(3) 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Argentine defeated Cristian Jianu (7-5 6-7³ 6-4). During the match, Trungelliti scored 118 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 111. Marco was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Regarding the service games, Trungelliti managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Marco Trungelliti lost the serve 7 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Trungelliti put 61% of his first serves in, winning 61% (43/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (17/45) on the 2nd serve. Marco broke Cristian Jianu 9 times after converting 53% of his break points (9/17).

Trungelliti has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (328-230). 40-18 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Trungelliti has a compiled 240-136 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Lyon Challenger where he defeated Daniel Merida Aguilar in the final 6-3 4-6 6-3 and the Tulln Challenger where he defeated Andrew Paulson in the final 7-5 6-1 and the Targu Mures 1 Challenger where he overcame Mili Poljicak in the final 6-1 ret..

The Argentine has an overall 45-28 win-loss record in 2025, 40-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Montemar Challenger

Cezar Cretu

Ranked no. 403, the Argentine reached the 2^nd round after beating Adrian Oetzbach 6-3 6-2, Jonas Forejtek 3-6 6-3 6-2 and Federico Bondioli 7-6(2) 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Cretu had a good straight sets win against Trungelliti (6-2 6-4). During the match Cretu and Trungelliti scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 135 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Cezar was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

Talking about serving, Cretu wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Cezar Cretu conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cezar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

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

Cretu has an overall 51-23 win-loss record in 2025, 45-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Montemar Challenger

Cretu has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Trungelliti	Cretu
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	3	7
Tot Games	35	65
Pts	118-111	231-193
Total Points	229	424
Winners	43	94
%Winners	36%	41%

Trungelliti played 1 match while Cretu competed in 3 matches. Cretu started his run from the qualifications while Trungelliti had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Marco Trungelliti dropped 1 set, while Cezar Cretu surrendered 1 set. Trungelliti has played 4 set(s) less than Cretu (3 vs 7). Therefore, Trungelliti played 30 games less than Cretu. The Argentine scored 43 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Cezar managed to score 94 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Trungelliti	Cretu
Aces	5	9
Avg per match	5	3
1st in	71/116	135/215
%1st in	61%	63%
1st pts	43/71	94/135
%1st pts	61%	70%
2nd pts	17/45	45/80
%2nd pts	38%	56%

Trungelliti recorded 5 aces . Cretu bagged 9 aces (3 per match). Trungelliti won 61% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Cretu won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Trungelliti	Cretu
Won	9	11
Converted	9/17	11/25
% Converted	53%	44%
Conceded	16	12
Saved	9	7
% Saved	56%	58%
Times Broken	7	5

The Argentine broke his opponent 9 times with a 53% conversion rate. Marco conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. The Argentine broke his opponents 11 times with a 44% conversion rate. Cretu conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 58% of the break points that he conceded.

Trungelliti
	R1 Cristian	Total
Score	7-5 6-73 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	35	35
pts	118-111	118-111
Total points	229	229
Winners	43	43
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	71/116	71/116
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	43/71	43/71
% 1st pts	61%	61%
2nd pts	17/45	17/45
% 2nd pts	38%	38%
Breaks
Won	9	9
Converted	9/17	9/17
Converted %	53%	53%
Conceded	16	16
Saved	9/16	9
Saved %	56%	56%
Times Broken	7	7

Cretu
	Q1 Oetzbach	Q3 Forejtek	R1 Bondioli	R2 Trungelliti	R2 Trungelliti	Total
Score	6-3 6-2	3-6 6-3 6-2	7-62 6-3	6-2 6-4	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	3	2	2	2	11
Tot Games	17	26	22	18	18	101
pts	59-40	95-88	77-65	–	–	231-193
Total points	99	183	142	0	0	424
Winners	19	49	26			94
%Winners	32%	52%	34%	0%	0%	41%
SERVE
Aces	3	4	2	0	0	9
Double Faults	2	5	5			12
1st in	27/48	72/101	36/66	/	/	135/215
% 1st in	56%	71%	55%	0%	0%	63%
1st pts	19/27	49/72	26/36	/	/	94/135
% 1st pts	70%	68%	72%	0%	0%	70%
2nd pts	15/21	12/29	18/30	/	/	45/80
% 2nd pts	71%	41%	60%	0%	0%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4	3			11
Converted	4/6	4/11	3/8	/	/	11/25
Converted %	67%	36%	38%	0%	0%	44%
Conceded	2	7	3			12
Saved	1/2	5/7	1/3	0/	0/	7
Saved %	50%	71%	33%	–	–	154%
Times Broken	1	2	2			5

Tennis Scores in Montemar Challenger

• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Cezar CretuCretu (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrej NedicNedic – Andres Santamarta RoigSantamarta Roig (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (0-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elmer MollerMoller – Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Miguel DamasDamas (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Zdenek KolarKolar – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-0) – H2H and prediction