Facundo Diaz Acosta and Gonzalo Villanueva will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sao Paulo Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on QUADRA 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Diaz Acosta who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Diaz Acosta is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Diaz Acosta -> 1.43
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 2.74
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Gonzalo Villanueva
This will be the 3rd time that Facundo Diaz Acosta and Gonzalo Villanueva clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Diaz Acosta and Villanueva (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Diaz Acosta won 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in M25 Cordoba back in 2020.
Facundo Diaz Acosta
Ranked no. 349, Diaz Acosta will start his run in the Sao Paulo Challenger after he played his last match in the Brasilia Challenger where he lost 7-6(1) 6-3 to Seyboth Wild in the 1st round on the 24th of November.
The Argentine has a compiled 40-27 win-loss record in 2021, 33-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Facundo’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Prostejov and M25 Eupen.
Talking about his overall career, Diaz Acosta has an overall 96-62 record. He has a positive 79-50 record on clay.
Previously in the Sao Paulo Challenger
Diaz Acosta has never competed in this tournament before.
Gonzalo Villanueva
Ranked no. 460, Gonzalo reached the 1st round after defeating Tomas Lipovsek Puches 3-6 6-3 6-1 and Alejandro Gomez 6-4 7-64.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Gomez (6-4 7-64). During the match Villanueva scored 82 points vs Gomez’s 66. Gonzalo was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Villanueva made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Gonzalo Villanueva was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (29/41) of his 1st serve and 67% (22/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Gonzalo broke Gomez 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Argentine started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Gonzalo’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Naples and M15 Weston.
Villanueva has an aggregate 27-26 win-loss record in 2021, 22-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Hugo DellienDellien (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Gilbert Soares Klier JuniorSoares Klier Junior (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Facundo JuarezJuarez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Alejandro GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matias ZukasZukas – Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Johan NiklesNikles – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Alejandro GonzalezGonzalez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mateus De Carvalho CardosoDe Carvalho Cardoso – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (1-1) – H2H and prediction
