Pablo Cuevas and Max Purcell will fight against each other in the 1st round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 7:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pablo Cuevas who should win in 3 sets.
Pablo Cuevas -> 1.65
Max Purcell -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Pablo Cuevas vs. Max Purcell
There is no head to head record between Pablo Cuevas and Max Purcell since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Pablo Cuevas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-12 | 1-2 | 14-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-18 | 5-4 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-17 | 1-7 | 10-8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 105, Pablo will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in the Santa Cruz De La Sierra 2 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Pablo Patino-Samudio in the semifinal on the 26th of March.
Cuevas has a compiled 4-5 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Pablo’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Pablo has an overall 545-352 record. He has a positive 442-232 record on clay.
Previously in Houston
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2011. See his history.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 164, the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Donald Young 6-2 6-2 and Moez Echargui 4-6 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications against Echargui, Purcell recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-3). During the match Purcell scored 90 points vs Echargui’s 74. Purcell was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Purcell fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Max Purcell was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (33/44) of his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Purcell broke Echargui 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Purcell started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Max has a composed 8-7 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Houston
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Moez EcharguiEchargui (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Steven DiezDiez (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Tommy PaulPaul (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Denis KudlaKudla (5-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Jack SockSock (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Pablo CuevasCuevas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Feliciano LopezLopez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-0) – H2H and prediction