

What Time Will Matteo Gigante Play Against Taylor Fritz?
Gigante and Fritz are on the Day 4 Schedule at Bnp Paribas Open 2025 on Saturday 8 March 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?
Matteo Gigante, a 23-year-old Italian player, is ranked at World No. 217 with a career-high ranking of No. 132 in June 2024. He entered the top 200 in February 2023 after winning his first Challenger title at Tenerife-3 as a lucky loser. Gigante has a 2025 record of 1-1, with his only win coming in the second round of Indian Wells. He also achieved his biggest career win at Indian Wells, defeating No. 34 Baez. In his career, Gigante has a 78-61 record in Challengers, winning 4 titles, including the Cordenons title in 2023. He made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2025 Australian Open and qualified without losing a set, but lost in the first round to Humbert. In the junior rankings, he reached a peak of No. 51 and won the J1 Traralgon doubles title with Cobolli.
Gigante is facing his first Top 10 opponent in Taylor Fritz, who is currently ranked at World No. 4. Fritz achieved his career-high ranking of No. 4 in November 2024, becoming the first American man since Blake in 2006 to reach the Nitto ATP Finals championship match and finish inside the Top 5 of the year-end rankings. At the 2024 US Open, he also became the first American man to play in a Grand Slam final since 2009 by defeating No. 8 Ruud in the fourth round, No. 4 Zverev in the quarterfinals, and No. 20 Tiafoe in the all-American semifinal. He defeated No. 2 Nadal in the 2022 Nitto ATP Finals and also won the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells, becoming the first American men’s champion at the event since Agassi in 2001. Fritz reached his first ATP Tour final at the 2016 Memphis as an 18-year-old wildcard, making him the youngest American finalist since the start of the ATP Tour in 1990. He has also had success in team competitions, winning the inaugural United Cup for Team USA in 2023 and helping Team World win the Laver Cup in 2022 and 2023. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Fritz won a bronze medal in men’s doubles with Paul.
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Fritz has a remarkable record at Indian Wells, having won the title in 2022. He is the only active American ATP Masters 1000 champion and has a 9-0 record against players ranked outside the Top 100 since his loss to No. 215 Mochizuki in 2023. On the ATP Masters 1000 level overall, he holds a 74-52 record, with a particularly strong performance at Indian Wells with a 20-7 record.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Gigante will win.
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