Nuno Borges and Andreas Seppi will face off in the 2nd round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.84
Andreas Seppi -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Andreas Seppi
There is no head to head record between Nuno Borges and Andreas Seppi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-23 | 20-12 | 13-7 | 0-1 | 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 |
| 2020 | 31-7 | 29-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128, Nuno got to the 2nd round after beating Jordan Thompson 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Thompson (6-4 7-5). During the match, Borges scored 67 points vs Thompson’s 57. Nuno was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borges bagged 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Nuno Borges was pretty effective on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Borges broke Thompson 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Borges has a fantastic record in the last 8 years having won 74% of his matches (191-66). 1-0 on grass in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Borges has a compiled1-0 win-loss record in the last 8 years on grass.
Nuno’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
Borges has a composed 27-11 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Nuno has never competed in this tournament before.
Andreas Seppi
8 - 12win/loss
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LLLWLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15-19 | 6-8 | 1-3 | 2-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-24 | 3-8 | 1-2 | 17-8 | 6-5 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 10-16 | 2-6 | 3-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 29-27 | 17-11 | 0-7 | 5-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 33-27 | 12-8 | 9-8 | 9-7 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 151, Seppi reached the 2nd round after defeating Rinky Hijikata 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Seppi had a good straight sets win against Hijikata (6-4 6-1). During the match Seppi scored 60 points vs Hijikata’s 45. Seppi was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Seppi bagged 5 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Andreas Seppi was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (19/23) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Andreas broke Hijikata 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Andreas has a compiled 8-12 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Seppi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 67-57 | 60-45 |
| Total Points | 124 | 105 |
| Winners | 33 | 19 |
| %Winners | 49% | 32% |
Both Borges and Seppi played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Borges and Seppi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Borges played 5 games more than Seppi. Borges scored 33 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Seppi recorded 19 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Seppi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 5 |
| 1st in | 45/61 | 23/42 |
| %1st in | 74% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 33/45 | 19/23 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 11/19 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 58% |
Borges recorded 3 aces . Seppi fired 5 aces . Borges won 73% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Seppi won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Seppi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 57% | 56% |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 67% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Portuguese broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Borges conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Seppi conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borges | |||
| R1 Thompson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 67-57 | 67-57 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/61 | 45/61 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 33/45 | 33/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 9/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Seppi | |||
| R1 Hijikata |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-45 | 60-45 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 23/42 | 23/42 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 19/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 11/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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