Nuno Borges and Tim Van Rijthoven will play each other in the semifinal of the Forli 4 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on CITTA’ DI FORLI’. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tim Van Rijthoven who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tim Van Rijthoven is the pick to win this match.
Tim Van Rijthoven -> 1.78
Nuno Borges -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Tim Van Rijthoven

There is no head to head record between Nuno Borges and Tim Van Rijthoven since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Nuno Borges

Nuno Borges

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Rank
33
High
30
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 33-26 20-12 13-7 0-4 0-3 0-0
2023 37-26 20-11 8-7 6-4 3-4 0-0
2022 49-26 7-5 28-13 11-5 3-3 0-0
2021 52-21 6-4 46-17 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 31-7 29-4 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 189 (career-high), the Portuguese got to the semifinal after beating Lorenzo Giustino 7-64 6-3, Andrea Pellegrino 6-1 6-4 and Constant Lestienne 6-3 6-3.

In the quarter, Nuno had a good straight sets win against Lestienne (6-3 6-3). During the match, Borges scored 78 points vs Lestienne’s 65. Nuno was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Borges struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Nuno Borges lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Borges put 58% of his first serves in, winning 76% (34/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (12/32) on the 2nd serve. Borges broke Lestienne 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Portuguese hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Borges has a fantastic match record in the last 8 years having won 75% of his matches (159-52). 3-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Borges has an overall5-2 record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

The Portuguese has an aggregate 3-0 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Forli 4 Challenger

Borges has never competed in this tournament before.

Forli 4 Challenger
Borges's Record

Tim Van Rijthoven

Tim Van Rijthoven

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Rank
871
High
101
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 0-4 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0
2023 2-3 1-2 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0
2022 38-24 3-4 2-2 25-15 8-3 0-0
2021 37-22 13-7 7-6 16-8 0-0 1-1
2020 8-8 3-2 4-5 1-1 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 236, the Dutch got to the semifinal after defeating Christian Capacci 6-1 6-3, Zhizhen Zhang 6-3 7-63, Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-2 7-61, Brayden Schnur 7-65 7-5 and Robin Haase 6-4 6-3.

In the quarter, Van Rijthoven had a good straight sets win against Haase (6-4 6-3). During the match Van Rijthoven scored 76 points vs Haase’s 61. The Dutch was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Van Rijthoven recorded 10 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Tim Van Rijthoven was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tim broke Haase 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Van Rijthoven started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points he played.

The Dutch has a compiled 12-4 win-loss record in 2022, 10-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Forli 4 Challenger
Van Rijthoven's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

N.Borges
T.Van Rijthoven
3h:55
3h:55
Time on court​
!
7h:20
7h:20
1h:34
1h:34
Last match​
1h:29
1h:29
3
3
Match played
!
5
5
57
57
Games Played​
103
103
6
6
Set played​​
10
10
206
206
Total points​
376
376
68.7
68.7
Avg point​
75.2
75.2
94
94
Winners
185
185
31.3
31.3
Avg Winners​
37
37
46%
46%
Ratio winners
49%
49%
-- Serve --
16
16
Aces
46
46
5.3
5.3
Avg Aces
9.2
9.2
4
4
Double Faults
7
7
1.3
1.3
Avg Double Faults
1.4
1.4
94/118
94/118
1st won total​
185/233
185/233
!
80%
80%
1st won %
!
79%
79%
41/73
41/73
2nd won total​
54/103
54/103
56%
56%
2nd won %
52%
52%
-- Break Points --
8/17
8/17
BP won
12/31
12/31
2.7/5.7
2.7/5.7
Avg BP won
2.4/6.2
2.4/6.2
47%
47%
Won
39%
39%
9
9
Conceded
17
17
3
3
Avg Conceded
3.4
3.4
1
1
Broken
1
1
!
0.3
0.3
Avg Broken
!
0.2
0.2
8
8
Saved
16
16
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Borges Van Rijthoven
Match played 3 5
Tot Set 6 10
Tot Games 57 103
Pts 206-160 376-297
Total Points 366 673
Winners 94 185
%Winners 46% 49%

Borges played 3 matches while Van Rijthoven competed in 5 matches. Van Rijthoven started his run from the qualifications while Borges had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Borges has played 4 set(s) less than Van Rijthoven (6 vs 10). Therefore, Borges played 46 games less than Van Rijthoven. Borges scored 94 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch recorded 185 winners (49%).

Serve Performance

Serve Borges Van Rijthoven
Aces 16 46
Avg per match 5.3 9.2
1st in 118/191 233/336
%1st in 62% 69%
1st pts 94/118 185/233
%1st pts 80% 79%
2nd pts 41/73 54/103
%2nd pts 56% 52%

Borges fired 16 aces (5.3 per match). Van Rijthoven struck 46 aces (9.2 per match). Borges won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Van Rijthoven won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Borges Van Rijthoven
Won 8 12
Converted 8/17 12/31
% Converted 47% 39%
Conceded 9 17
Saved 8 16
% Saved 89% 94%
Times Broken 1 1

Borges broke his opponents 8 times with a 47% conversion rate. Nuno dropped his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. Tim broke his opponents 12 times with a 39% conversion rate. Van Rijthoven conceded his serve once and he saved 94% of the break points that he conceded.

Borges
R1
Giustino		 R2
Pellegrino		 1/4
Lestienne		 Total
Score 7-64 6-3 6-1 6-4 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 22 17 18 57
pts 72-58 56-37 78-65 206-160
Total points 130 93 143 366
Winners 34 26 34 94
%Winners 47% 46% 44% 46%
SERVE
Aces 7 5 4 16
Double Faults 2 1 1 4
1st in 42/66 31/48 45/77 118/191
% 1st in 64% 65% 58% 62%
1st pts 34/42 26/31 34/45 94/118
% 1st pts 81% 84% 76% 80%
2nd pts 18/24 11/17 12/32 41/73
% 2nd pts 75% 65% 38% 56%
Breaks
Won 1 3 4 8
Converted 1/2 3/7 4/8 8/17
Converted % 50% 43% 50% 47%
Conceded 1 0 8 9
Saved 1/1 0/0 7/8 8
Saved % 100% – 88% 63%
Times Broken 0 0 1 1
Van Rijthoven
Q1
Capacci 		Q3
Zhang		 R1
Uchiyama		 R2
Schnur		 1/4
Haase		 Total
Score 6-1 6-3 6-3 7-63 6-2 7-61 7-65 7-5 6-4 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 2 2 2 10
Tot Games 16 22 21 25 19 103
pts 60-34 69-59 82-63 89-80 76-61 376-297
Total points 94 128 145 169 137 673
Winners 27 40 42 48 28 185
%Winners 45% 58% 51% 54% 37% 49%
SERVE
Aces 8 11 11 6 10 46
Double Faults 2 0 3 2 0 7
1st in 31/41 49/69 52/82 64/85 37/59 233/336
% 1st in 76% 71% 63% 75% 63% 69%
1st pts 27/31 40/49 42/52 48/64 28/37 185/233
% 1st pts 87% 82% 81% 75% 76% 79%
2nd pts 6/10 11/20 13/30 10/21 14/22 54/103
% 2nd pts 60% 55% 43% 48% 64% 52%
Breaks
Won 4 1 2 2 3 12
Converted 4/6 1/3 2/2 2/8 3/12 12/31
Converted % 67% 33% 100% 25% 25% 39%
Conceded 0 1 6 7 3 17
Saved 0/0 1/1 6/6 6/7 3/3 16
Saved % – 100% 100% 86% 100% 129%
Times Broken 0 0 0 1 0 1

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