Nuno Borges and Nicolas Alvarez Varona will square off in the quarter of the Liberec Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 12:00 pm on PERNERKA COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.32
Nicolas Alvarez Varona -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Nicolas Alvarez Varona
This will be the 2nd time that Nuno Borges and Nicolas Alvarez Varona clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Borges (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Borges won 6-3 6-4 in the semifinal in M15 Sintra back in 2020.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-26 | 20-12 | 13-7 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-26 | 20-11 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-26 | 7-5 | 28-13 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-21 | 6-4 | 46-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 31-7 | 29-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 106 (career-high), Nuno reached the quarter after defeating Timofey Skatov 6-1 6-3 and Fabian Marozsan 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Nuno had a good straight sets win against Marozsan (6-3 6-4). During the match, Borges scored 72 points vs Marozsan’s 58. Nuno was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Borges scored 3 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Nuno Borges was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (29/40) of his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Borges broke Marozsan twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Borges hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Borges has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 73% of his matches (197-72). 23-9 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Borges has a compiled96-38 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Portuguese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
Borges has an overall 33-17 win-loss record in 2022, 23-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Liberec Challenger
Nuno has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-24 | 4-3 | 33-17 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-9 | 3-2 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-34 | 3-7 | 13-19 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-26 | 11-8 | 29-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-9 | 21-6 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 269, the Spaniard reached the quarter after defeating Daniel Siniakov 6-4 6-3 and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 7-66 2-6 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Alvarez defeated Stebe (7-66 2-6 6-3).During the match Alvarez scored less points (2) than Stebe. In fact, the world no. 106 won 95 points vs Stebe’s. That means that Alvarez was more focused during the important points. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Alvarez recorded 5 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Nicolas Alvarez Varona lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Alvarez put 56% of his first serves in, winning 74% (39/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (19/41) on the 2nd serve. Alvarez broke Stebe twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Nicolas has an aggregate 12-19 win-loss record in 2022, 10-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Alvarez |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 49 |
| Pts | 136-100 | 162-152 |
| Total Points | 236 | 314 |
| Winners | 50 | 68 |
| %Winners | 37% | 42% |
Both Borges and Alvarez played 2 matches. At the moment, Nicolas Alvarez Varona conceded 1 set while Nuno Borges hasn’t dropped a set so far. Borges has played 1 set(s) less than Alvarez (4 vs 5). Therefore, Borges played 14 games less than Alvarez. Nuno scored 50 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard blasted 68 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Alvarez |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 70/121 | 93/155 |
| %1st in | 58% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 50/70 | 68/93 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 34/51 | 29/62 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 47% |
Borges bagged 10 aces (5 per match). Alvarez struck 8 aces (4 per match). Borges won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Alvarez won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Alvarez |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/14 | 6/16 |
| % Converted | 43% | 38% |
| Conceded | 2 | 12 |
| Saved | 2 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 58% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Borges broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Borges had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Nicolas broke his opponents 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. Nicolas conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 58% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borges | ||||
| R1 Skatov |
R2 Marozsan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 | 35 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 72-58 | 136-100 | |
| Total points | 106 | 130 | 236 | |
| Winners | 21 | 29 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 40% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 40/72 | 70/121 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 56% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 21/30 | 29/40 | 50/70 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 73% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 20/32 | 34/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 63% | 67% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 2/4 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 50% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alvarez | ||||
| R1 Siniakov |
R2 Stebe |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | 7-66 2-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 30 | 49 | |
| pts | 67-55 | 95-97 | 162-152 | |
| Total points | 122 | 192 | 314 | |
| Winners | 29 | 39 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 41% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 40/61 | 53/94 | 93/155 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 56% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 29/40 | 39/53 | 68/93 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 74% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 19/41 | 29/62 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 46% | 47% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 2/9 | 6/16 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 22% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 2/5 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 40% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
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