Nuno Borges and Gastao Elias will face off in the 2nd round of the Oeiras 2 Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 3 sets.
Nuno Borges -> 1.85
Gastao Elias -> 1.95
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Gastao Elias
This will be the 6th time that Nuno Borges and Gastao Elias play each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Borges (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Elias won 4-6 7-5 ret. in the semifinal in the Oeiras 4 Challenger back in 2021.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-33 | 17-14 | 9-11 | 3-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 143 (career-high), Borges got to the 2nd round after beating Pedro Sousa 4-6 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round against Sousa, Borges recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-5 6-3). During the match, Borges scored 111 points vs Sousa’s 105. The Portuguese was quite aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borges scored 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nuno Borges lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Borges put 77% of his first serves in, winning 69% (56/81) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (10/24) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Sousa 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Borges has a fantastic match record in the last 8 years having won 75% of his matches (170-57). 9-3 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Borges has a composed78-29 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Portuguese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger.
The Portuguese has a compiled 14-5 win-loss record in 2022, 9-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Oeiras 2 Challenger
Gastao Elias
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-19 | 25-9 | 6-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-32 | 8-5 | 27-25 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-18 | 10-8 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 4-3 | 18-17 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 13-5 | 24-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 173, the Portuguese got to the 2nd round after beating Sebastian Fanselow 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Gastao had a good straight sets win against Fanselow (6-1 6-2). During the match Elias scored 56 points vs Fanselow’s 30. The Portuguese was extremely aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about serving, Elias scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Gastao Elias was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 80% (16/20) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Portuguese broke Fanselow 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Elias’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Oeiras 1 Challenger.
The Portuguese has an aggregate 12-6 win-loss record in 2022, 8-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Oeiras 2 Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 15 |
| Pts | 111-105 | 56-30 |
| Total Points | 216 | 86 |
| Winners | 56 | 16 |
| %Winners | 50% | 29% |
Both Borges and Elias played 1 match. At the moment, Nuno Borges conceded 1 set while Gastao Elias hasn’t lost a set so far. Borges has played 1 set more than Elias (3 vs 2). Therefore, Borges played 16 games more than Elias. Nuno scored 56 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Gastao struck 16 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 81/105 | 20/43 |
| %1st in | 77% | 47% |
| 1st pts | 56/81 | 16/20 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 10/24 | 12/23 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 52% |
Borges bagged 2 aces . Elias recorded 1 ace . Borges won 69% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Elias won 80% of the points on 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 | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/12 | 6/7 |
| % Converted | 25% | 86% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 71% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Nuno broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Borges conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. The Portuguese broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Gastao conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borges | |||
| R1 Sousa | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 111-105 | 111-105 | |
| Total points | 216 | 216 | |
| Winners | 56 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 81/105 | 81/105 | |
| % 1st in | 77% | 77% | |
| 1st pts | 56/81 | 56/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/24 | 10/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Elias | |||
| R1 Fanselow | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 56-30 | 56-30 | |
| Total points | 86 | 86 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 20/43 | 20/43 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 16/20 | 16/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Oeiras 2 Challenger
- Lukas RosolRosol – Kacper ZukZuk (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Lucas GerchGerch (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Oscar Jose GutierrezJose Gutierrez (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Evan FurnessFurness (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Lukas RosolRosol – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gastao EliasElias – Nuno BorgesBorges (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Zdenek KolarKolar (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Tristan LamasineLamasine (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (0-0) – H2H and prediction