Nuno Borges and Denis Istomin will play each other in the 1st round of the Maia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.115
Denis Istomin -> 5.6
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Denis Istomin
There is no head to head record between Nuno Borges and Denis Istomin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 12-8 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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. 93, Borges will start his run in the Maia Challenger after he played his last match in the Valencia Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-2 6-1 to Pellegrino in the 2nd round on the 23rd of November.
Nuno has a compiled 46-25 win-loss record in 2022, 25-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Borges’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Portuguese has an overall 210-80 record. He has a positive 98-41 record on clay.
Previously in the Maia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
Denis Istomin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-26 | 8-10 | 4-7 | 1-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-29 | 2-8 | 7-8 | 7-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 5-6 | 2-3 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 24-32 | 17-14 | 4-9 | 3-4 | 0-5 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 481, the Uzbek reached the 1st round after beating Guilherme Valdoleiros 6-1 6-1 and Denis Yevseyev 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Uzbek had a good straight sets win against Yevseyev (6-3 6-3). During the match Istomin scored 75 points vs Yevseyev’s 63. Denis was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Istomin was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Denis Istomin lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Istomin put 64% of his first serves in, winning 59% (26/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the 2nd serve. Istomin broke Yevseyev 5 times after converting 33% of his break points (5/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Uzbek started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.
Denis has a composed 13-25 win-loss record in 2022, 4-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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