Thiago Moura Monteiro and Henri Laaksonen will face off in the qualifications of the Western & Southern Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 12:00 pm on PORSCHE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thiago Moura Monteiro who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Thiago Moura Monteiro is the pick to win this match.
Thiago Moura Monteiro -> 1.35
Henri Laaksonen -> 3.1

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Prediction and head to head Thiago Moura Monteiro vs. Henri Laaksonen

This will be the 3^rd time that Thiago Moura Monteiro and Henri Laaksonen fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Moura Monteiro (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Moura Monteiro won 6-4 6-4 in the semifinal in the Braunschweig Challenger back in 2019.

Thiago Moura Monteiro

Ranked no. 64, Thiago got to the qualifications after beating Emilio Nava 6-3 6-0.

In the qualifications, Moura Monteiro had a good straight sets win against Nava (6-3 6-0). During the match, Moura Monteiro scored 56 points vs Nava’s 35. Moura Monteiro was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Moura Monteiro managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Thiago Moura Monteiro conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Moura Monteiro put 60% of his first serves in, winning 86% (24/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. The Brazilian broke Nava 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Moura Monteiro has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (374-262). 5-5 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Moura Monteiro has an overall 63-62 match record in the last years on hard.

Thiago’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Salzburg Challenger.

Moura Monteiro has a compiled 31-23 win-loss record in 2022, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Henri Laaksonen

Ranked no. 102, the Swiss got to the qualifications after defeating Taro Daniel 6-4 7-5.

In the qualifications, Henri had a good straight sets win against Daniel (6-4 7-5). During the match Laaksonen scored 82 points vs Daniel’s 79. Henri was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Laaksonen fired 3 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Henri Laaksonen lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Laaksonen put 54% of his first serves in, winning 73% (32/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (14/37) on the 2nd serve. Laaksonen broke Daniel 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Laaksonen’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Braunschweig Challenger.

Henri has an aggregate 13-26 win-loss record in 2022, 4-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Henri has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Moura Monteiro	Laaksonen
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	22
Pts	56-35	82-79
Total Points	91	161
Winners	24	32
%Winners	43%	39%

Both Moura Monteiro and Laaksonen 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, Moura Monteiro and Laaksonen have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Moura Monteiro played 7 games less than Laaksonen. Thiago scored 24 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Swiss fired 32 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Moura Monteiro	Laaksonen
Aces	4	3
Avg per match	4	3
1st in	28/47	44/81
%1st in	60%	54%
1st pts	24/28	32/44
%1st pts	86%	73%
2nd pts	9/19	14/37
%2nd pts	47%	38%

Moura Monteiro recorded 4 aces . Laaksonen recorded 3 aces . Moura Monteiro won 86% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Laaksonen won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Moura Monteiro	Laaksonen
Won	5	4
Converted	5/8	4/11
% Converted	63%	36%
Conceded	3	8
Saved	3	6
% Saved	100%	75%
Times Broken	0	2

Moura Monteiro broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Brazilian very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Swiss broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Laaksonen conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Moura Monteiro
	Q1 Nava	Total
Score	6-3 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	56-35	56-35
Total points	91	91
Winners	24	24
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	28/47	28/47
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	24/28	24/28
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	9/19	9/19
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Laaksonen
	Q1 Daniel	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	82-79	82-79
Total points	161	161
Winners	32	32
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	44/81	44/81
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	32/44	32/44
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	14/37	14/37
% 2nd pts	38%	38%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	6/8	6
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	2	2

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