Pedro Sousa and Ernests Gulbis will face off in the qualifications of the Bordeaux Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 6:00 pm on COURT 11. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pedro Sousa who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pedro Sousa is the pick to win this match.
Pedro Sousa -> 1.61
Ernests Gulbis -> 2.20
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Prediction and head to head Pedro Sousa vs. Ernests Gulbis
This will be the 2nd time that Pedro Sousa and Ernests Gulbis fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gulbis (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Gulbis won 6-4 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Pune back in 2018.
Pedro Sousa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-17 | 1-2 | 12-14 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-17 | 1-5 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-16 | 0-2 | 21-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 35-29 | 0-4 | 35-23 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 296, Pedro reached the qualifications after defeating Antoine Hoang 6-76 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications against Hoang, The Portuguese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-76 7-5 6-4). During the match, Sousa scored 124 points vs Hoang’s 118. The Portuguese was extremely aggressive to blast 62 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sousa recorded 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Pedro Sousa lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sousa put 68% of his first serves in, winning 72% (62/86) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (19/41) on the 2nd serve. Pedro broke Hoang 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Sousa has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (307-187). 5-5 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Sousa has a compiled 285-151 record in the last years on clay.
Pedro has an aggregate 5-5 win-loss record in 2022, 5-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bordeaux Challenger
Ernests Gulbis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-21 | 3-2 | 17-13 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-21 | 2-4 | 6-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 9-4 | 3-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2019 | 8-30 | 3-9 | 1-9 | 4-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 349, Gulbis reached the qualifications after defeating Arthur Cazaux 4-6 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications against Cazaux, Ernests recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-4). During the match Gulbis scored 96 points vs Cazaux’s 93. Gulbis was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Gulbis recorded 3 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Overall, Ernests Gulbis was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (39/54) of his 1st serve and 54% (25/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ernests broke Cazaux 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Gulbis’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Cherbourg Challenger.
Ernests has an aggregate 10-8 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sousa | Gulbis |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 30 |
| Pts | 124-118 | 96-93 |
| Total Points | 242 | 189 |
| Winners | 62 | 39 |
| %Winners | 50% | 41% |
Both Sousa and Gulbis played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Pedro Sousa conceded 1 set, while Ernests Gulbis lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Sousa and Gulbis have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Sousa played 5 games more than Gulbis. Sousa scored 62 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Ernests struck 39 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sousa | Gulbis |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 3 |
| 1st in | 86/127 | 54/100 |
| %1st in | 68% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 62/86 | 39/54 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 19/41 | 25/46 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 54% |
Sousa scored 11 aces . Gulbis scored 3 aces . Sousa won 72% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Gulbis won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sousa | Gulbis |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 75% | 43% |
| Conceded | 4 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 75% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Sousa broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Sousa dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Latvian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Gulbis conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sousa | |||
| Q1 Hoang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-76 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 124-118 | 124-118 | |
| Total points | 242 | 242 | |
| Winners | 62 | 62 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 86/127 | 86/127 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 62/86 | 62/86 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/41 | 19/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gulbis | |||
| Q1 Cazaux |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 96-93 | 96-93 | |
| Total points | 189 | 189 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 54/100 | 54/100 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 39/54 | 39/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/46 | 25/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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