Franco Roncadelli and Max Houkes will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Montevideo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Houkes who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Houkes is the pick to win this match.
Max Houkes -> 1.23
Franco Roncadelli -> 3.8
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Prediction and head to head Franco Roncadelli vs. Max Houkes
There is no head to head record between Franco Roncadelli and Max Houkes since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Franco Roncadelli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-15 | 0-0 | 20-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-29 | 3-5 | 34-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-23 | 0-0 | 38-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-25 | 0-0 | 36-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Roncadelli will start his run in the Montevideo Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Santa Cruz where he lost 7-6(5) 6-3 to Alejandro Dellien Velasco in the final on the 6th of November.
Franco has a composed 35-19 win-loss record in 2022, 35-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Franco’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Santa Cruz.
Talking about his overall career, Franco has an overall 83-71 record. He has a positive 83-69 record on clay.
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2021. See his history.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-11 | 7-3 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 365, the Dutch got to the 1st round after beating Mateus Alves 6-3 6-1 and Joao Domingues 3-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Domingues, Max recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Houkes and Domingues scored the same amount of points (98). However, the world no. was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Max was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Houkes couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was not very consistent on his 2nd serve to score 11 double faults. Max Houkes lost the serve 6 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Houkes put 67% of his first serves in, winning 57% (32/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (10/28) on the 2nd serve. Houkes broke Domingues 7 times after converting 29% of his break points (7/24).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Houkes started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Max’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Innsbruck,M15 Kottingbrunn,M25 Oldenzaal,M15 Haren and M15 Casablanca.
Houkes has an aggregate 62-16 win-loss record in 2022, 62-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Nicolas KickerKicker – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Sumit NagalNagal (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Guido PellaPella (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hernan CasanovaHernan – Facundo Diaz AcostaFacundo (3-6 1-4 ret. (Casanova ret.)) – See score progression
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- Eduardo RibeiroRibeiro – Gastao EliasElias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max HoukesHoukes – Franco RoncadelliRoncadelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
