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The great season of ‘Fran’ closing it, explained in numbers
The Argentine appeared Monday in the best ranking of his career
May 05, 2025
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Francisco Cerúndo has been playing for the first time in his career the semifinals in Madrid.
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It is sure to say that Francisco Cerú is going through the best season of his career at the ATP Tour. Although he has not won any title in this course, the Argentine has achieved in 2025 the greatest regularity of his life, and that is reflected in his incredible numbers so far.
It is one of the leaders in victories
Only three Players have at least 24 games won in 2025, and one of them is Francisco Cerúando, who has reached at least the quarterfinals in seven of the ten tournaments he has played in the year, including three at the ATP Masters 1000 level.
Players with more victories in 2025
| Carlos Alcaraz | 24-5 |
| Álex de Miñaur | 24-9 |
| Francisco closing it | 24-10 |
It has been a nightmare before members of the top 10
The best way to break through the Top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings is to start knocking down the current members of that group. In that sense, the Buenos Aires has excelled in 2025. That is why he is one of the three players with at least four wins against members of the top 10 in the season.
Players with more victories in 2025 against Top 10
His victories before this type of players have arrived before No. 2 Alexander Zverev (Buenos Aires and Madrid), No. 10 Álex de Miñaur (Indian Wells) and No. 6 Casper Ruud (Miami).
Absolute Victories on Clay
The main productivity of ‘Fran’ has arrived in clay and this is not only demonstrated to see its best round of the year (finalist in Buenos Aires); Also in the number of matches that you have won in this type of court. No one matches it for the moment.
Players with more victories in 2025 on clay
He is the player with the most played games
No one has played more games than ‘Fran’ in 2025, a total of 34. But the Argentine has not only been quantity. Also quality. In addition, their defeats also talk a lot about their great year. To begin with, the last five have been against rivals with the best ranking.
Without counting that four of his 10 losses in the year have been against players who have ended up winning the title: Joao Fonseca (in the final of Buenos Aires), Laslo Djere (in the semifinals of Santiago), Carlos Alcaraz (in the second round of Montecarlo) and Ruud (in Semifinals of Madrid).
Best ranking
The previous numbers have resulted in constant growth in the PIF ATP Rankings. To the point that this Monday appeared in No. 18, his best place so far in the ranks, in which he was outside the Top 30 in mid -January.
Having to defend only 50 points in his next tournament, the internali bnl d’Italia, it would not be strange if the Argentine continues to exceed his record and approaches the top 15. Only 260 units separate him from the current No. 15, the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
Cerúndo has also taken giant steps in the race to Turin, which determines the eight participants of the Nitto ATP Finals in November. For now, the Argentine is in the ninth place and with reasonable illusions of first classifying the season end tournament.
KEYS IN YOUR GAME
Far from being a leader in some shooting or game statistics in 2025, the fundamental thing in ‘Fran’ has been to improve his own records. This year, for example, has won 70% of the points with the first serve. For now, it exceeds its best record in a single season at ATP Tour (67.9% in 2024). In addition, it has 55% at points with its second serve, which also exceeds its best annual record in the circuit (51.7% in 2024).
To this is added that it is one of the four players with at least 30% of Games to the rest won in 2025 (along with Carlos Alcaraz, Álex de Miñaur and Sebastián Báez). The mixture results in a dangerous player for his rivals in any facet of the game, and in statistics that increasingly intimidate in the locker room.
