Nuno Borges and Andrea Pellegrino will square off in the 2nd round of the Valencia Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Nuno Borges who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.51
Andrea Pellegrino -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Andrea Pellegrino
This will be the 4th time that Nuno Borges and Andrea Pellegrino face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Borges (see full H2H stats), but Pellegrino has a winning record of 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Pellegrino won 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Bordeaux Challenger back in May 2022.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-18 | 12-8 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-26 | 20-11 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-26 | 7-5 | 28-13 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-21 | 6-4 | 46-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 31-7 | 29-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 91 (career-high), Borges reached the 2nd round after beating Kimmer Coppejans 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Nuno had a good straight sets win against Coppejans (6-3 6-2). During the match, Borges scored 59 points vs Coppejans’s 43. Nuno was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borges made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Nuno Borges was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (21/28) of his 1st serve and 68% (17/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Portuguese broke Coppejans 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Borges has a fantastic match record in the last 8 years having won 73% of his matches (210-79). 25-11 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Borges has an aggregate98-40 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
Borges’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
The Portuguese has an aggregate 46-24 win-loss record in 2022, 25-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
Borges has never competed in this tournament before.
Andrea Pellegrino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-17 | 0-1 | 13-15 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-29 | 2-2 | 28-26 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-28 | 0-3 | 27-20 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-29 | 2-3 | 22-23 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-14 | 0-1 | 14-6 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 185, Andrea reached the 2nd round after beating Alvaro Lopez San Martin 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Andrea had a good straight sets win against Lopez San Martin (6-3 6-2). During the match Pellegrino scored 59 points vs Lopez San Martin’s 43. Andrea was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Pellegrino couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Andrea Pellegrino conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 6 break points. Furthermore, Pellegrino put 65% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Andrea broke Lopez San Martin 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Andrea’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Vicenza Challenger and the Genova Challenger.
The Italian has an aggregate 29-27 win-loss record in 2022, 26-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Pellegrino |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 |
| Pts | 59-43 | 59-43 |
| Total Points | 102 | 102 |
| Winners | 21 | 26 |
| %Winners | 36% | 44% |
Both Borges and Pellegrino played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Borges and Pellegrino have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (17). Borges scored 21 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Andrea recorded 26 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Pellegrino |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 28/53 | 37/57 |
| %1st in | 53% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 21/28 | 26/37 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 17/25 | 14/20 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 70% |
Borges made 2 aces . Pellegrino didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Borges won 75% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Pellegrino won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Pellegrino |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 60% | 43% |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Borges broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Borges pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Andrea was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.
| Borges | |||
| R1 Coppejans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-43 | 59-43 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/53 | 28/53 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 21/28 | 21/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/25 | 17/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Pellegrino | |||
| R1 Lopez San Martin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-43 | 59-43 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 37/57 | 37/57 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 26/37 | 26/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLLLWLWL Tennis Scores in Valencia Challenger
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Pedro SousaSousa (4-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Sumit NagalNagal (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Alvaro Lopez San MartinLopez San Martin (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-2 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
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- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
