Joao Sousa and Kenny de Schepper will face off in the 2nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Joao Sousa who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Joao Sousa is the pick to win this match.
Joao Sousa -> 1.81
Kenny de Schepper -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Joao Sousa vs. Kenny de Schepper
This will be the 3rd time that Joao Sousa and Kenny de Schepper face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Sousa (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Sousa won 6-4 3-6 6-3 in the 1st round in Barcelona back in 2015.
Joao Sousa
Ranked no. 173, Sousa reached the 2nd round after beating Hugo Grenier 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Sousa had a good straight sets win against Grenier (6-4 6-1). During the match, Sousa scored 65 points vs Grenier’s 40. Joao was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sousa bagged 9 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Joao Sousa was very effective on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 77% (10/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sousa broke Grenier 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Sousa has a good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (307-296). 4-3 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sousa has an aggregate 61-53 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Portuguese’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Alicante Challenger.
The Portuguese has a compiled 19-27 win-loss record in 2021, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
Joao has never competed in this tournament before.
Kenny de Schepper
Ranked no. 564, the French player got to the 2nd round after beating Matteo Martineau 6-3 3-6 7-65, Valentin Royer 6-4 6-0 and Carlos Taberner 7-65 7-65.
In the 1st round, Kenny had a good straight sets win against Taberner (7-65 7-65). During the match de Schepper scored 87 points vs Taberner’s 84. De Schepper was very aggressive to blast 46 winners.
About the serving games, de Schepper managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kenny de Schepper lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, de Schepper put 74% of his first serves in, winning 81% (46/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (7/20) on the 2nd serve. Kenny broke Taberner twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
De Schepper’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Vale do Lobo and Bigorre.
The French player has an overall 38-20 win-loss record in 2021, 11-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sousa | de Schepper |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 73 |
| Pts | 65-40 | 243-218 |
| Total Points | 105 | 461 |
| Winners | 28 | 129 |
| %Winners | 43% | 53% |
Sousa played 1 match while de Schepper competed in 3 matches. de Schepper started his run from the qualifications while Sousa had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kenny de Schepper dropped 1 set while Joao Sousa hasn’t lost a set so far. Sousa has played 5 set(s) less than de Schepper (2 vs 7). Therefore, Sousa played 56 games less than de Schepper. Joao scored 28 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Kenny scored 129 winners (53%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sousa | de Schepper |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 7 |
| 1st in | 33/46 | 165/228 |
| %1st in | 72% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 129/165 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 10/13 | 28/63 |
| %2nd pts | 77% | 44% |
Sousa managed to score 9 aces . de Schepper scored 21 aces (7 per match). Sousa won 85% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 77% of the points. On the other side, de Schepper won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sousa | de Schepper |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 8 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 8/18 |
| % Converted | 60% | 44% |
| Conceded | 1 | 17 |
| Saved | 1 | 13 |
| % Saved | 100% | 76% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Joao broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Joao had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Kenny broke his opponents 8 times with a 44% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 76% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sousa | |||
| R1 Grenier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-40 | 65-40 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/46 | 33/46 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 28/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/13 | 10/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 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 | |
| de Schepper | |||||
| Q1 Martineau |
Q3 Royer |
R1 Taberner |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 7-65 | 6-4 6-0 | 7-65 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 16 | 26 | 73 | |
| pts | 100-102 | 56-32 | 87-84 | 243-218 | |
| Total points | 202 | 88 | 171 | 461 | |
| Winners | 59 | 24 | 46 | 129 | |
| %Winners | 59% | 43% | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 8 | 5 | 8 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 82/113 | 26/38 | 57/77 | 165/228 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 68% | 74% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 59/82 | 24/26 | 46/57 | 129/165 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 92% | 81% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 5/12 | 7/20 | 28/63 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 42% | 35% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 5/7 | 2/9 | 8/18 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 71% | 22% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 1 | 4 | 17 | |
| Saved | 11/12 | 0/1 | 2/4 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 92% | 0% | 50% | 142% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
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