Joao Domingues and Max Houkes will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sao Leopoldo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on QUADRA 7. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Houkes is the pick to win this match.
Max Houkes -> 1.79
Joao Domingues -> 1.94
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Prediction and head to head Joao Domingues vs. Max Houkes
This will be the 2nd time that Joao Domingues and Max Houkes play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Houkes (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Houkes won 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in the Montevideo Challenger back in November 2022.
Joao Domingues
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-12 | 6-6 | 7-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-24 | 8-7 | 5-15 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-27 | 1-4 | 24-21 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-28 | 0-3 | 11-24 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-11 | 1-1 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 294, the Portuguese will start his run in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger after he played his last match in the Montevideo Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-4 to Houkes in the qualifications on the 7th of November.
The Portuguese has a composed 23-24 win-loss record in 2022, 23-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Domingues’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Salvador De Bahia Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Joao has an overall 340-254 record. He has a positive 221-170 record on clay.
Previously in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger
Joao has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 344 (career-high), Max got to the 1st round after beating Fermin Tenti 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Tenti (6-3 6-4). During the match Houkes scored 71 points vs Tenti’s 58. Max was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Houkes fired 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Max Houkes lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Houkes put 61% of his first serves in, winning 67% (22/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. Max broke Tenti 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Max’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Innsbruck,M15 Kottingbrunn,M25 Oldenzaal,M15 Haren and M15 Casablanca.
Max has a composed 64-17 win-loss record in 2022, 64-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWLLLWLWWW Tennis Scores in Sao Leopoldo Challenger
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Gastao EliasElias (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres (3-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Matheus Pucinelli De AlmeidaPucinelli De Almeida (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roman Andres BurruchagaAndres Burruchaga – Francisco ComesanaComesana (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Pedro Boscardin DiasBoscardin Dias (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (7-66 5-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Joao DominguesDomingues – Max HoukesHoukes (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Wilson LeiteLeite (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damien WengerWenger – Gonzalo LamaLama (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Eduardo RibeiroRibeiro – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva – Juan Pablo PazPablo Paz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
