Nuno Borges and Pedro Sousa will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Bordeaux Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 4. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.31
Pedro Sousa -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Pedro Sousa
This will be the 2nd time that Nuno Borges and Pedro Sousa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Borges (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Borges won 4-6 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in the Oeiras 2 Challenger back in April 2022.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-17 | 12-8 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 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 |
| 2020 | 31-7 | 29-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 132, Borges will start his run in the Bordeaux Challenger after he played his last match in the Prague 2 Challenger where he lost 6-1 7-5 to Kuzmanov in the 2nd round on the 4th of May.
Nuno has an aggregate 21-8 win-loss record in 2022, 16-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Nuno’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Nuno has an overall 177-60 record. He has a positive 85-32 record on clay.
Previously in the Bordeaux Challenger
The Portuguese has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 293, Sousa reached the 1st round after beating Antoine Hoang 6-76 7-5 6-4 and Ernests Gulbis 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Sousa had a good straight sets win against Gulbis (7-5 6-3). During the match Sousa scored 72 points vs Gulbis’s 56. Pedro was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Sousa fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Pedro Sousa lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sousa put 70% of his first serves in, winning 76% (35/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Pedro broke Gulbis 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sousa started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Portuguese has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2022, 6-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Bordeaux Challenger
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- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Arthur FilsFils (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Quentin HalysHalys – Hugo GrenierGrenier (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Richard GasquetGasquet (4-6 6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pedro SousaSousa – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martin CuevasCuevas – Lucas PouillePouille (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Benjamin BonziBonzi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao MenezesMenezes – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Elias YmerYmer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
