Fernando Verdasco and Manuel Guinard will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Madrid Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fernando Verdasco who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Fernando Verdasco is the pick to win this match.
Fernando Verdasco -> 1.62
Manuel Guinard -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Fernando Verdasco vs. Manuel Guinard
There is no head to head record between Fernando Verdasco and Manuel Guinard since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Fernando Verdasco
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6-16 | 3-6 | 1-8 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-32 | 17-12 | 12-13 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-20 | 7-6 | 3-7 | 0-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-8 | 4-2 | 0-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 26-27 | 6-8 | 8-9 | 7-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 120, the Spaniard got to the 2nd round after defeating Dimitar Kuzmanov 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Verdasco had a good straight sets win against Kuzmanov (6-3 6-4). During the match, Verdasco scored 67 points vs Kuzmanov’s 53. The Spaniard was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Verdasco scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Fernando Verdasco lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Verdasco put 75% of his first serves in, winning 65% (28/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the 2nd serve. Verdasco broke Kuzmanov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Verdasco has a good record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (229-212). 8-6 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Verdasco has an overall 93-75 record in the last years on clay.
The Spaniard’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Monterrey Challenger.
Fernando has a compiled 17-9 win-loss record in 2022, 8-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Madrid Challenger
Verdasco has never competed in this tournament before.
Manuel Guinard
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-11 | 5-2 | 12-5 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-31 | 0-2 | 26-22 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-35 | 1-4 | 21-20 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-28 | 1-2 | 29-19 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-12 | 0-0 | 9-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 159, the French player reached the 2nd round after beating Gastao Elias w/o.
In the 1st round, Guinard defeated Elias (w/o). During the match Guinard and Elias scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 120 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Manuel was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
About the serving games, Guinard couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Manuel Guinard conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Guinard’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 2 Challenger.
Guinard has a compiled 15-8 win-loss record in 2022, 9-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
LWWWWLWWWW Tennis Scores in Madrid Challenger
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Dmitry PopkoPopko (7-64 6-1) – See score progression
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Feliciano LopezLopez (w/o) – See score progression
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Timofey SkatovSkatov (4-6 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Yshai OlielOliel (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Pedro SousaSousa (7-61 6-2) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Johan NiklesNikles (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Gastao EliasElias (w/o) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (3-6 7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Miguel DamasDamas (7-66 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Pavel KotovKotov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Lucas PouillePouille (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
