Gonzalo Villanueva and Tomas Lipovsek Puches will play each other in the qualifications of the Montevideo Challenger for the 10th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gonzalo Villanueva who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gonzalo Villanueva is the pick to win this match.
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 1.76
Tomas Lipovsek Puches -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Gonzalo Villanueva vs. Tomas Lipovsek Puches
This will be the 10th time that Gonzalo Villanueva and Tomas Lipovsek Puches clash against each other. The head to head is 6-3 for Lipovsek Puches (see full H2H stats), 6-3 on clay.
The last time that they played, Villanueva won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in Argentina F11 (Mendoza) back in 2017.
Gonzalo Villanueva
Ranked no. 448, Villanueva reached the qualifications after beating Rodrigo Arus 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Villanueva had a good straight sets win against Arus (6-1 6-0). During the match, Villanueva scored 53 points vs Arus’s 24. Villanueva was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Villanueva scored just 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Gonzalo Villanueva was quite efficient on serve to win 88% (21/24) of his 1st serve and 54% (7/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gonzalo broke Arus 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Villanueva has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (296-207). 19-14 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Villanueva has an aggregate288-193 record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Naples and M15 Weston.
Gonzalo has a composed 24-23 win-loss record in 2021, 19-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See his history.
Tomas Lipovsek Puches
Ranked no. 706, the Slovenian got to the qualifications after defeating Nicolas Alvarez 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Slovenian had a good straight sets win against Alvarez (6-2 6-2). During the match Lipovsek Puches scored 58 points vs Alvarez’s 38. The Slovenian was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.
About the serving games, Lipovsek Puches scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Tomas Lipovsek Puches was quite effective on serve to win 71% (17/24) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Tomas was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Alvarez 5 times.
Tomas has a compiled 15-16 win-loss record in 2021, 10-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Villanueva | Lipovsek Puches |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 16 |
| Pts | 53-24 | 58-38 |
| Total Points | 77 | 96 |
| Winners | 21 | 17 |
| %Winners | 40% | 29% |
Both Villanueva and Lipovsek Puches played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Villanueva and Lipovsek Puches have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Villanueva played 3 games less than Lipovsek Puches. The Argentine scored 21 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Tomas managed to score 17 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Villanueva | Lipovsek Puches |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 24/37 | 24/45 |
| %1st in | 65% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 17/24 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 7/13 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 62% |
Villanueva fired 1 ace . Lipovsek Puches also managed to score 1 ace . Villanueva won 88% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Lipovsek Puches won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Villanueva | Lipovsek Puches |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 100% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | NAN% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Villanueva broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Villanueva extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Lipovsek Puches broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Tomas conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Villanueva | |||
| Q1 Arus |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 53-24 | 53-24 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 24/37 | 24/37 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 21/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/13 | 7/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Lipovsek Puches | |||
| Q1 Alvarez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-38 | 58-38 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 24/45 | 24/45 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 17/24 | 17/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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