Gonzalo Villanueva and Nicolas Barrientos will face off in the qualifications of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:30 pm on CANCHA 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Barrientos who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Barrientos is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Barrientos -> 1.6
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Gonzalo Villanueva vs. Nicolas Barrientos
This will be the 2nd time that Gonzalo Villanueva and Nicolas Barrientos play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Barrientos (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Barrientos won 7-6(3) 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Florianopolis Challenger back in 2021.
Gonzalo Villanueva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-19 | 0-0 | 25-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-40 | 5-4 | 39-36 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-33 | 1-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-29 | 5-10 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 414, Villanueva reached the qualifications after defeating Ignacio Carou 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Villanueva had a good straight sets win against Carou (6-2 6-4). During the match, Villanueva scored 64 points vs Carou’s 50. The Argentine was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Villanueva was unable to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Gonzalo Villanueva lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Villanueva put 80% of his first serves in, winning 68% (28/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (7/10) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Carou 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Villanueva has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (306-215). 9-5 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Villanueva has a compiled 298-200 match record in the last years on clay.
The Argentine has an aggregate 9-5 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger
Nicolas Barrientos
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-14 | 1-3 | 17-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-10 | 8-4 | 14-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-10 | 4-4 | 3-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 8-10 | 8-7 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 461, the Colombian got to the qualifications after defeating Boris Arias 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Barrientos had a good straight sets win against Arias (6-3 6-4). During the match Barrientos scored 73 points vs Arias’s 53. Nicolas was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Barrientos made 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nicolas Barrientos was quite efficient on serve to win 86% (30/35) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Colombian broke Arias 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
The Colombian has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Villanueva | Barrientos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 19 |
| Pts | 64-50 | 73-53 |
| Total Points | 114 | 126 |
| Winners | 28 | 30 |
| %Winners | 44% | 41% |
Both Villanueva and Barrientos played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Villanueva and Barrientos have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Villanueva played 1 game less than Barrientos. Villanueva scored 28 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Barrientos recorded 30 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Villanueva | Barrientos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 5 |
| 1st in | 41/51 | 35/46 |
| %1st in | 80% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 28/41 | 30/35 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 7/10 | 6/11 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 55% |
Villanueva didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Barrientos managed to score 5 aces . Villanueva won 68% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Barrientos won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Villanueva | Barrientos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 57% | 33% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 75% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Gonzalo broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Argentine lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Barrientos broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Nicolas was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Villanueva | |||
| Q1 Carou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-50 | 64-50 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 41/51 | 41/51 | |
| % 1st in | 80% | 80% | |
| 1st pts | 28/41 | 28/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/10 | 7/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Barrientos | |||
| Q1 Arias |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 73-53 | 73-53 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/46 | 35/46 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 30/35 | 30/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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