Nuno Borges and Steve Johnson will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Delray Beach Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:30 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.60
Steve Johnson -> 2.20
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Steve Johnson
This will be the 2nd time that Nuno Borges and Steve Johnson play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Borges (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Borges won 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in Delray beach back in February 2023.
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. 104, Nuno got to the 1st round after defeating Jonas Forejtek 6-0 6-3 and Steve Johnson 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Nuno had a good straight sets win against Johnson (6-2 6-2). During the match, Borges scored 65 points vs Johnson’s 46. Borges was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borges struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Nuno Borges was very effective on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Portuguese broke Johnson 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nuno started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 62% of the points he played.
Borges has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 72% of his matches (215-83). 2-1 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Borges has an aggregate98-30 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Portuguese has an overall 2-2 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
Borges has never competed in this tournament before.
Steve Johnson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-20 | 15-11 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-28 | 20-18 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-17 | 8-12 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-11 | 18-7 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 118, Steve reached the 1st round after beating Hernan Casanova 6-3 5-7 7-64.
The American has an aggregate 3-3 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2014 and 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Johnson |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 34 |
| Pts | 122-76 | 98-82 |
| Total Points | 198 | 180 |
| Winners | 42 | 44 |
| %Winners | 34% | 45% |
Borges played 2 matches while Johnson competed in 1 match. At the moment, Steve Johnson surrendered 1 set while Nuno Borges hasn’t lost a set so far. Borges has played 1 set more than Johnson (4 vs 3). However, it’s interesting to notice that Borges played 3 games less than Johnson. Nuno scored 42 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Steve recorded 44 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Johnson |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 1.5 | 13 |
| 1st in | 57/88 | 51/88 |
| %1st in | 65% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 42/57 | 44/51 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 22/31 | 18/37 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 49% |
Borges fired 3 aces (1.5 per match). Johnson scored 13 aces . Borges won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Johnson won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Johnson |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 4 |
| Converted | 9/23 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 39% | 100% |
| Conceded | 2 | 4 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
The Portuguese broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. Borges lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Johnson broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borges | ||||
| Q1 Forejtek |
Q3 Johnson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 16 | 31 | |
| pts | 57-30 | 65-46 | 122-76 | |
| Total points | 87 | 111 | 198 | |
| Winners | 20 | 22 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/40 | 31/48 | 57/88 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 22/31 | 42/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 71% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 12/17 | 22/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 4/11 | 9/23 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 36% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Johnson | ||||
| Q1 Casanova |
Q3 Borges |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 5-7 7-64 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 16 | 50 | |
| pts | 98-82 | – | 98-82 | |
| Total points | 180 | 0 | 180 | |
| Winners | 44 | 44 | ||
| %Winners | 45% | 0% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 13 | 0 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | ||
| 1st in | 51/88 | / | 51/88 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 0% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 44/51 | / | 44/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 0% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/37 | / | 18/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 0% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | ||
| Converted | 4/4 | / | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 0% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | ||
| Saved | 0/4 | 0/ | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | ||
Head 2 Head
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LLLWW Tennis Scores in Delray Beach
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Evan ZhuZhu (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Steve JohnsonJohnson (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-64 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- John IsnerIsner – Jeff WolfWolf (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio GomezGomez – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Matija PecoticPecotic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Oscar OtteOtte – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Denis KudlaKudla (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
