Gonzalo Villanueva and Michel Vernier will face off in the qualifications of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:30 pm on CANCHA 2. 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Gonzalo Villanueva is the pick to win this match.
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 1.23
Michel Vernier -> 3.98

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Prediction and head to head Gonzalo Villanueva vs. Michel Vernier

This will be the 6^th time that Gonzalo Villanueva and Michel Vernier fight against each other. The head to head is 5-0 for Villanueva (see full H2H stats), 5-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Villanueva won 7-6(4) 3-6 6-4 in the 2^nd round in M15 Buenos Aires back in 2019.

Gonzalo Villanueva

Ranked no. 409, the Argentine will start his run in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger after he played his last match in the Concepcion Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-4 6-4 to Lama in the 2^nd round on the 19^th of January.

Villanueva has an overall 5-3 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Villanueva has an overall 305-216 record. He has a positive 297-201 record on clay.

Previously in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger

Gonzalo has never competed in this tournament before.

Michel Vernier

Ranked no. 700, the Chilean reached the qualifications after beating Tristan-Samuel Weissborn 6-3 7-6⁵.

In the qualifications, Michel had a good straight sets win against Weissborn (6-3 7-6⁵). During the match Vernier scored 76 points vs Weissborn’s 67. The Chilean was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.

About the serving games, Vernier struck 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Michel Vernier was exceptionally effective on serve to win 72% (36/50) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Michel broke Weissborn twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Vernier has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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