

What Time Will Jacob Fearnley Play Against Fabio Fognini?
Fearnley and Fognini are on the Day 2 Schedule at Internazionali Bnl D’italia 2025 on Thursday 8 May 2025. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
In the upcoming match at the Grand Stand Arena, we have Jacob Fearnley from Great Britain facing off against Fabio Fognini from Italy in their first-ever meeting. Looking at their performance based on 52-week averages, Fearnley has a slightly higher attack conversion score compared to Fognini. Fearnley also has better serve quality and return quality numbers than Fognini.
Jacob Fearnley, who is 23 years old and currently ranked World No. 57, has been steadily climbing up the rankings. He went from being unranked in July 2023 to breaking into the Top 500 in June 2024, Top 200 in August 2024, and eventually reaching a career-high ranking of No. 57. Fearnley made his ATP Tour debut in 2024 at Eastbourne and has been having a successful season with notable wins at Wimbledon and in Challenger tournaments. He is also doing well on clay courts, having reached the 2nd round in Barcelona and the 3rd round in Madrid.
Sada Nahimana
Aya El Aouni
Emma Raducanu
Daria Kasatkina
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Clara Tauson
Daniel Altmaier
Felix Auger Aliassime
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
Alexander Bublik
Tomas Martin Etcheverry
Francisco Comesana
Matteo Arnaldi
Hugo Gaston
Diane Parry
Liudmila Samsonova
Borna Gojo
Jiri Lehecka
Jan-Lennard Struff
Justin Engel
Karue Sell
Fabian Marozsan
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar
Quentin Halys
Danielle Rose Collins
Sofia Kenin
Marton Fucsovics
Zizou Bergs
Kamilla Rakhimova
Jil Teichmann
On the other side of the court, we have Fabio Fognini, a 37-year-old veteran player currently ranked World No. 107 with a career-high ranking of No. 9. Fognini has had a successful career, becoming the oldest player to break into the Top 10 for the first time in 2019. He is also the first Italian to achieve this since Barazzutti in 1979. Fognini has the most victories of any Italian man in the Open Era and has made significant contributions to Italian tennis, including winning the Monte Carlo title and beating top players like Nadal and Murray.
Fognini is playing in his 18th and final main draw appearance in Rome, aiming to continue his streak of recording an ATP Tour win for the 20th consecutive season. He is tied with Djokovic and Wawrinka for the second-most appearances in men’s singles in the Open Era. Fognini will look to add to his impressive win record in Rome, trying to match Bertolucci for the third-most wins among Italian men in the Open Era. It will be an exciting match to see how the experienced Fognini matches up against the rising star Fearnley on the clay courts of Rome.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Fearnley will win.
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