Joao Fonseca and Jakub Paul will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Rio De Janeiro Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on QUADRA CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jakub Paul who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jakub Paul is the pick to win this match.
Jakub Paul -> 1.33
Joao Fonseca -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Joao Fonseca vs. Jakub Paul
There is no head to head record between Joao Fonseca and Jakub Paul since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Joao Fonseca
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-19 | 8-3 | 14-11 | 2-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Fonseca will start his run in the Rio De Janeiro Challenger after he played his last match in U.S. Open (juniors) where he lost 5-7 7-6(6) 6-1 to Nicod in the 1st round on the 4th of September.
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, The Brazilian has an overall 0-0 record. He has a flat 0-0 record on clay.
Previously in the Rio De Janeiro Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Jakub Paul
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-20 | 9-6 | 17-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-24 | 20-4 | 14-12 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2022 | 25-26 | 4-4 | 20-18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 34-21 | 4-3 | 17-10 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 9-10 | 4-4 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 533, Jakub reached the 1st round after defeating Jose Pereira 6-2 6-3 and Sean Cuenin 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Jakub had a good straight sets win against Cuenin (6-3 6-1). During the match Paul scored 60 points vs Cuenin’s 38. The Swiss was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Paul made 2 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jakub Paul was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Swiss broke Cuenin 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Swiss started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 58% of the points he played.
Jakub’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
Jakub has an overall 21-24 win-loss record in 2022, 16-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rio De Janeiro Challenger
Jakub has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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