Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Rio De Janeiro Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on QUADRA CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida is the pick to win this match.
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida -> 1.52
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
There is no head to head record between Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-27 | 0-1 | 38-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-25 | 1-3 | 19-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 1-3 | 27-24 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 13-7 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 193, matheus got to the 2nd round after defeating Francisco Comesana 6-0 6-1.
In the 1st round, Matheus had a good straight sets win against Comesana (6-0 6-1). During the match, Pucinelli De Almeida scored 54 points vs Comesana’s 23. Matheus was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pucinelli De Almeida managed to score 5 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (21/24) of his 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pucinelli De Almeida broke Comesana 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Pucinelli De Almeida has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (142-85). 23-20 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Pucinelli De Almeida has a compiled121-69 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
Matheus’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Braga Challenger.
The Brazilian has an aggregate 25-25 win-loss record in 2022, 23-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rio De Janeiro Challenger
Matheus has never competed in this tournament before.
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-25 | 15-9 | 10-5 | 13-7 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-27 | 21-12 | 9-9 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-23 | 0-0 | 31-18 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-22 | 5-6 | 15-9 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 433, the French player got to the 2nd round after defeating Piotr Matuszewski 6-3 6-0, Marcelo Zormann 6-4 6-4 and Felipe Meligeni Alves 6-73 7-65 7-65.
In the 1st round against Meligeni Alves, Giovanni recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 7-65 7-65).During the match Mpetshi Perricard scored less points (5) than Meligeni Alves. In fact, the world no. 193 won 116 points vs Meligeni Alves’s. That means that Mpetshi Perricard was more focused during the important points. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 56 winners.
About the serving games, Mpetshi Perricard submerged his opponent with 25 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (56/72) of his 1st serve and 57% (30/53) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Giovanni broke Meligeni Alves twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Giovanni’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Montauban and M25 Uriage.
Mpetshi Perricard has an overall 26-18 win-loss record in 2022, 26-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pucinelli De Almeida | Mpetshi Perricard |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 74 |
| Pts | 54-23 | 230-200 |
| Total Points | 77 | 430 |
| Winners | 21 | 100 |
| %Winners | 39% | 43% |
Pucinelli De Almeida played 1 match while Mpetshi Perricard competed in 3 matches. Mpetshi Perricard started his run from the qualifications while Pucinelli De Almeida had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard conceded 1 set while Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida hasn’t lost a set so far. Pucinelli De Almeida has played 5 set(s) less than Mpetshi Perricard (2 vs 7). Therefore, Pucinelli De Almeida played 61 games less than Mpetshi Perricard. Pucinelli De Almeida scored 21 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Giovanni recorded 100 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pucinelli De Almeida | Mpetshi Perricard |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 36 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 12 |
| 1st in | 24/35 | 124/218 |
| %1st in | 69% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 100/124 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 8/11 | 58/94 |
| %2nd pts | 73% | 62% |
Pucinelli De Almeida bagged 5 aces . Mpetshi Perricard managed to score 36 aces (12 per match). Pucinelli De Almeida won 88% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Mpetshi Perricard won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pucinelli De Almeida | Mpetshi Perricard |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 8 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 8/9 |
| % Converted | 56% | 89% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Matheus broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Pucinelli De Almeida extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Giovanni broke his opponents 8 times with a 89% conversion rate. Mpetshi Perricard conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pucinelli De Almeida | |||
| R1 Comesana |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 54-23 | 54-23 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 24/35 | 24/35 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 21/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/11 | 8/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Mpetshi Perricard | |||||
| Q1 Matuszewski |
Q3 Zormann Da Silva |
R1 Meligeni Alves |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | 6-4 6-4 | 6-73 7-65 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 20 | 39 | 74 | |
| pts | 56-26 | 58-53 | 116-121 | 230-200 | |
| Total points | 82 | 111 | 237 | 430 | |
| Winners | 18 | 26 | 56 | 100 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 45% | 48% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 6 | 25 | 36 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 20/38 | 32/55 | 72/125 | 124/218 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 58% | 58% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 26/32 | 56/72 | 100/124 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 81% | 78% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/18 | 14/23 | 30/53 | 58/94 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 61% | 57% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 8/9 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | 67% | 89% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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