Kenny de Schepper and Thomaz Bellucci will face off in the qualifications of the Porto Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT MCDONALDS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kenny de Schepper who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kenny de Schepper is the pick to win this match.
Kenny de Schepper -> 1.55
Thomaz Bellucci -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Kenny de Schepper vs. Thomaz Bellucci
This will be the 3rd time that Kenny de Schepper and Thomaz Bellucci clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Bellucci (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Bellucci won 7-5 3-6 6-2 in the 1st round in the Perugia Challenger back in 2019.
Kenny de Schepper
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 24-25 | 7-5 | 4-8 | 13-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 27-29 | 7-4 | 8-14 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 41-35 | 6-7 | 18-16 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 38-24 | 22-8 | 5-5 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 9-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 365, De Schepper got to the qualifications after defeating Adria Soriano Barrera 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kenny had a good straight sets win against Soriano Barrera (6-4 6-2). During the match, de Schepper scored 66 points vs Soriano Barrera’s 47. The French player was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, de Schepper bagged 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kenny de Schepper was quite effective on serve to win 84% (27/32) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kenny broke Soriano Barrera 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
de Schepper has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (303-267). 2-2 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, de Schepper has an aggregate 62-49 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
De Schepper’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Balma.
Kenny has an overall 26-17 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
De Schepper has never competed in this tournament before.
Thomaz Bellucci
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2023 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 7-10 | 5-4 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 2-17 | 1-7 | 1-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 13-13 | 5-4 | 3-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2019 | 18-21 | 2-3 | 14-15 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 741, Thomaz got to the qualifications after beating Denis Istomin 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Brazilian had a good straight sets win against Istomin (6-1 6-3). During the match Bellucci scored 60 points vs Istomin’s 40. The Brazilian was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Bellucci wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Thomaz Bellucci was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bellucci broke Istomin 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Bellucci has an overall 3-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | de Schepper | Bellucci |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 18 | 16 |
Pts | 66-47 | 60-40 |
Total Points | 113 | 100 |
Winners | 27 | 21 |
%Winners | 41% | 35% |
Both de Schepper and Bellucci played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, de Schepper and Bellucci have played the same amount of sets 2. However, de Schepper played 2 games more than Bellucci. The French player scored 27 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Bellucci fired 21 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
Serve | de Schepper | Bellucci |
---|---|---|
Aces | 7 | 0 |
Avg per match | 7 | 0 |
1st in | 32/51 | 27/46 |
%1st in | 63% | 59% |
1st pts | 27/32 | 21/27 |
%1st pts | 84% | 78% |
2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 |
%2nd pts | 68% | 68% |
de Schepper struck 7 aces . Bellucci didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. de Schepper won 84% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Bellucci won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | de Schepper | Bellucci |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 4 |
Converted | 3/6 | 4/8 |
% Converted | 50% | 50% |
Conceded | 1 | 0 |
Saved | 1 | 0 |
% Saved | 100% | 0% |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The French player broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kenny pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Thomaz broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Bellucci was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
de Schepper | |||
Q1 Soriano Barrera |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
pts | 66-47 | 66-47 | |
Total points | 113 | 113 | |
Winners | 27 | 27 | |
%Winners | 41% | 41% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 7 | 7 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 32/51 | 32/51 | |
% 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
1st pts | 27/32 | 27/32 | |
% 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
% 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Bellucci | |||
Q1 Istomin |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
pts | 60-40 | 60-40 | |
Total points | 100 | 100 | |
Winners | 21 | 21 | |
%Winners | 35% | 35% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
1st pts | 21/27 | 21/27 | |
% 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
% 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
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