Nuno Borges and Pedro Sousa will face off in the 2nd round of the Maia Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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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 -> 1.41
Pedro Sousa -> 2.82
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Pedro Sousa
This will be the 3rd time that Nuno Borges and Pedro Sousa fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Borges (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Borges won 6-3 7-6(7) in the 1st round in the Bordeaux Challenger back in May 2022.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-15 | 12-8 | 8-6 | 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, the Portuguese got to the 2nd round after defeating Denis Istomin 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Istomin (6-3 6-0). During the match, Borges scored 57 points vs Istomin’s 30. Borges was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Borges scored 6 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Nuno Borges was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 77% (10/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Borges broke Istomin 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Borges has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 73% of his matches (211-80). 26-12 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Borges has a composed99-41 record in the last 8 years on clay.
Borges’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
Borges has a composed 47-25 win-loss record in 2022, 26-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Maia Challenger
Pedro Sousa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-17 | 1-2 | 12-14 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-17 | 1-5 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-16 | 0-2 | 21-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 35-29 | 0-4 | 35-23 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 528, Sousa got to the 2nd round after beating Oleksii Krutykh 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Krutykh (6-4 6-4). During the match Sousa scored 68 points vs Krutykh’s 58. Pedro was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Sousa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Pedro Sousa lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Sousa put 68% of his first serves in, winning 67% (24/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Krutykh 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Pedro has an aggregate 13-16 win-loss record in 2022, 12-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 20 |
| Pts | 57-30 | 68-58 |
| Total Points | 87 | 126 |
| Winners | 19 | 24 |
| %Winners | 33% | 35% |
Both Borges and Sousa played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Borges and Sousa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Borges played 5 games less than Sousa. Nuno scored 19 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Pedro struck 24 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 1 |
| 1st in | 24/37 | 36/53 |
| %1st in | 65% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 24/36 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 10/13 | 11/17 |
| %2nd pts | 77% | 65% |
Borges fired 6 aces . Sousa scored 1 ace . Borges won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 77% of the points. On the other side, Sousa won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Borges broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Nuno very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Pedro broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borges | |||
| R1 Istomin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-30 | 57-30 | |
| Total points | 87 | 87 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 24/37 | 24/37 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 19/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/13 | 10/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 77% | 77% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sousa | |||
| R1 Krutykh |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 68-58 | 68-58 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 36/53 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 24/36 | 24/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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