Pedro Sousa grounds Maxime Hamou 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in the Maia Challenger on Tuesday after playing a tremendous match to clash against Gastao Elias in the 2nd round.
Live score progression and stats
Pedro in this set was much more effective than the French player and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking the French player in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
They contested 49 points. Pedro was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than the French player (31-18). The Portuguese surrendered 8 points on serve (20-8). In addition, on the other side, Maxime conceded 11 points on serve (10-11).
Sousa was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Hamou in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nonetheless, there was more work to do for the Portuguese to win the set because Maxime succeeded in breaking back in the 4th (1-3) game. The Portuguese kept his cool to break Hamou in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
The Portuguese converted 60% of his break points (3/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40 and 15-40), the 3rd (2-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 40-A). In addition on the other side, the French player converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had his opportunities in the 4th (0-3 15-40) and the 6th game (2-3 30-40).
They contested 49 points. Sousa won 9 points more than Hamou (29-20). Sousa lost 10 points on serve (15-10). In addition, on the other side, Maxime conceded 14 points on serve (10-14).
Pedro will add to his prize money $ 340 after winning this match. He has won already $ 860 after this win. If he wins the next match, Pedro will add $ 600 to his earnings to get in total $ 1,460 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Pedro scored 59 points vs. Hamou’s 39.
The Portuguese was sharp when converting 63% of the break points that he conquered (5/8). On the other side, Hamou was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Sousa and Hamou is 1-0 for Pedro.
Draw and next match H2H: Pedro Sousa vs. Gastao Elias – stats
Sousa will fight against Elias in the 2nd round.
This will be the 5th time that Pedro Sousa and Gastao Elias face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Sousa and Elias (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Sousa won 6-75 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in Lisbon Challenger back in October 2020.
Tennis Scores in Maia Challenger
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Pedro SousaSousa – Maxime HamouHamou (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (2-6 7-5 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-2 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Julian LenzLenz (6-1 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-3 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Daniel MasurMasur (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (5-7 7-67 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-5 3-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Gastao EliasElias – Pedro SousaSousa (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Quentin HalysHalys – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H details and stats
