Nuno Borges and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida will square off in the 2nd round of the Kyiv Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 12. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida is the pick to win this match.
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida -> 1.9
Nuno Borges -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
There is no head to head record between Nuno Borges and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Nuno Borges
Ranked no. 283, Nuno reached the 2nd round after beating Quentin Halys 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Halys (6-3 7-5). During the match, Borges scored 74 points vs Halys’s 57. Borges was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borges scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Nuno Borges was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (31/38) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Borges broke Halys 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Borges has a fantastic record in the last 7 years having won 76% of his matches (135-43). 31-11 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Borges has an aggregate54-20 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Nuno’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,the Oeiras 2 Challenger and M15 Majadahonda.
The Portuguese has a composed 31-12 win-loss record in 2021, 31-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kyiv Challenger
Borges has never competed in this tournament before.
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
Ranked no. 334, Pucinelli De Almeida reached the 2nd round after beating Michael Vrbensky 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Pucinelli De Almeida had a good straight sets win against Vrbensky (6-3 6-2). During the match Pucinelli De Almeida scored 62 points vs Vrbensky’s 39. Pucinelli De Almeida was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Pucinelli De Almeida scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Matheus broke Vrbensky 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Pucinelli De Almeida’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Cairo,M25 Kiseljak and M15 Sarajevo.
The Brazilian has an overall 63-19 win-loss record in 2021, 63-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Pucinelli De Almeida |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 17 |
| Pts | 74-57 | 62-39 |
| Total Points | 131 | 101 |
| Winners | 31 | 25 |
| %Winners | 42% | 40% |
Both Borges and Pucinelli De Almeida played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Borges and Pucinelli De Almeida have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Borges played 4 games more than Pucinelli De Almeida. Borges scored 31 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Brazilian struck 25 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Pucinelli De Almeida |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 38/56 | 35/53 |
| %1st in | 68% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 25/35 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 12/18 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 67% |
Borges struck 1 ace . Pucinelli De Almeida also fired 1 ace . Borges won 82% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Pucinelli De Almeida won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Pucinelli De Almeida |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 60% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Borges broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Portuguese extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Matheus broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Pucinelli De Almeida conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borges | |||
| R1 Halys |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 74-57 | 74-57 | |
| Total points | 131 | 131 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 38/56 | 38/56 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 31/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Pucinelli De Almeida | |||
| R1 Vrbensky |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-39 | 62-39 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWLWWL Tennis Scores in Kyiv Challenger
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- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Richard ZusmanZusman (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-73 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Illya BeloborodkoBeloborodko (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Jelle SelsSels (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Francesco FortiForti – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-1 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko – Joris De LooreDe Loore (5-7 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Alessandro BegaBega (6-4 0-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Orlando LuzLuz – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (5-7 6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Aziz DougazDougaz (5-7 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Quentin HalysHalys (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Nick ChappellChappell (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Matheus Pucinelli De AlmeidaPucinelli De Almeida – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Francesco FortiForti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement TaburTabur – Ergi KirkinKirkin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Orlando LuzLuz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
