Nuno Borges and Steve Johnson will play each other in the qualifications of the Delray Beach Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 2:00 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 -> 1.727
Steve Johnson -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Steve Johnson
There is no head to head record between Nuno Borges and Steve Johnson 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 |
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2024 | 33-23 | 20-12 | 13-7 | 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. 105, Nuno reached the qualifications after beating Jonas Forejtek 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Forejtek (6-0 6-3). During the match, Borges scored 57 points vs Forejtek’s 30. Nuno was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Borges scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Nuno Borges was pretty efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nuno broke Forejtek 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Borges has a fantastic match record in the last 9 years having won 72% of his matches (214-83). 1-1 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Borges has a composed97-30 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Portuguese has a composed 1-2 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
Nuno has never competed in this tournament before.
Steve Johnson
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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. 120, Johnson got to the qualifications after defeating Hernan Casanova 6-3 5-7 7-64.
In the qualifications, The American defeated Casanova (6-3 5-7 7-64). During the match Johnson scored 98 points vs Casanova’s 82. Steve was pretty aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Johnson struck 13 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Steve Johnson lost the serve 4 times. Furthermore, Johnson put 58% of his first serves in, winning 86% (44/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (18/37) on the 2nd serve. Johnson was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Casanova 4 times.
Johnson has a compiled 3-2 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 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 | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
Tot Games | 15 | 34 |
Pts | 57-30 | 98-82 |
Total Points | 87 | 180 |
Winners | 20 | 44 |
%Winners | 35% | 45% |
Both Borges and Johnson played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Steve Johnson surrendered 1 set while Nuno Borges hasn’t conceded a set so far. Borges has played 1 set(s) less than Johnson (2 vs 3). Therefore, Borges played 19 games less than Johnson. The Portuguese scored 20 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Steve scored 44 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Borges | Johnson |
---|---|---|
Aces | 1 | 13 |
Avg per match | 1 | 13 |
1st in | 26/40 | 51/88 |
%1st in | 65% | 58% |
1st pts | 20/26 | 44/51 |
%1st pts | 77% | 86% |
2nd pts | 10/14 | 18/37 |
%2nd pts | 71% | 49% |
Borges struck 1 ace . Johnson also fired 13 aces . Borges won 77% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Johnson won 86% of the points on 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 | 5 | 4 |
Converted | 5/12 | 4/4 |
% Converted | 42% | 100% |
Conceded | 2 | 4 |
Saved | 1 | 0 |
% Saved | 50% | 0% |
Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Borges broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Portuguese surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Steve broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Steve conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
Borges | |||
Q1 Forejtek |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
pts | 57-30 | 57-30 | |
Total points | 87 | 87 | |
Winners | 20 | 20 | |
%Winners | 35% | 35% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 26/40 | 26/40 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
1st pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
% 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
% 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Johnson | |||
Q1 Casanova |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 5-7 7-64 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
pts | 98-82 | 98-82 | |
Total points | 180 | 180 | |
Winners | 44 | 44 | |
%Winners | 45% | 45% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 13 | 13 | |
Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
1st in | 51/88 | 51/88 | |
% 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
1st pts | 44/51 | 44/51 | |
% 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
2nd pts | 18/37 | 18/37 | |
% 2nd pts | 49% | 49% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
Saved | 0/4 | 0 | |
Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
Times Broken | 4 | 4 |
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