Gastao Elias and Aziz Dougaz will face off in the 2nd round of the Waco Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on GRANDSTAND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gastao Elias who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gastao Elias is the pick to win this match.
Gastao Elias -> 1.51
Aziz Dougaz -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Gastao Elias vs. Aziz Dougaz
There is no head to head record between Gastao Elias and Aziz Dougaz since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Gastao Elias
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-24 | 8-5 | 19-17 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-18 | 10-8 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 4-3 | 18-17 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 13-5 | 24-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-7 | 14-3 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 248, Gastao reached the 2nd round after beating Enzo Couacaud 7-64 6-2.
In the 1st round, Elias had a good straight sets win against Couacaud (7-64 6-2). During the match, Elias scored 77 points vs Couacaud’s 55. Elias was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Elias made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Gastao Elias was quite effective on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 66% (19/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Portuguese broke Couacaud 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Elias has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (285-230). 2-3 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Elias has an aggregate 55-53 record in the last years on hard.
Elias has an aggregate 2-3 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Waco Challenger
The Portuguese has never competed in this tournament before.
Aziz Dougaz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-23 | 13-9 | 25-12 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-38 | 28-17 | 9-10 | 10-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 68-33 | 53-23 | 7-4 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-29 | 38-17 | 8-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-16 | 17-11 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 279, the Tunisian reached the 2nd round after defeating Cooper Williams 6-4 6-4, Yuta Shimizu 6-72 7-63 6-4 and Tung-Lin Wu 3-6 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round against Wu, Aziz recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Dougaz scored 91 points vs Wu’s 84. The Tunisian was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Dougaz scored 14 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Aziz Dougaz was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Tunisian broke Wu 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
The Tunisian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Monastir.
The Tunisian has a compiled 6-5 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Elias | Dougaz |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 84 |
| Pts | 77-55 | 267-238 |
| Total Points | 132 | 505 |
| Winners | 23 | 113 |
| %Winners | 30% | 42% |
Elias played 1 match while Dougaz competed in 3 matches. Dougaz started his run from the qualifications while Elias had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Aziz Dougaz conceded 2 sets while Gastao Elias hasn’t lost a set so far. Elias has played 6 set(s) less than Dougaz (2 vs 8). Therefore, Elias played 63 games less than Dougaz. Elias scored 23 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Dougaz bagged 113 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Elias | Dougaz |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 31 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 10.3 |
| 1st in | 27/56 | 143/238 |
| %1st in | 48% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 113/143 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 19/29 | 55/95 |
| %2nd pts | 66% | 58% |
Elias recorded 2 aces . Dougaz bagged 31 aces (10.3 per match). Elias won 85% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Dougaz won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Elias | Dougaz |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 9 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 9/26 |
| % Converted | 30% | 35% |
| Conceded | 1 | 10 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
The Portuguese broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The Portuguese dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Aziz broke his opponents 9 times with a 35% conversion rate. Aziz conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Elias | |||
| R1 Couacaud |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 77-55 | 77-55 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 27/56 | 27/56 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 23/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/29 | 19/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 66% | 66% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Dougaz | |||||
| Q1 Williams |
Q3 Shimizu |
R1 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-72 7-63 6-4 | 3-6 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 36 | 28 | 84 | |
| pts | 66-53 | 110-101 | 91-84 | 267-238 | |
| Total points | 119 | 211 | 175 | 505 | |
| Winners | 33 | 41 | 39 | 113 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 37% | 43% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 11 | 14 | 31 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 55/99 | 52/86 | 143/238 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 56% | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 33/36 | 41/55 | 39/52 | 113/143 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 75% | 75% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 28/44 | 18/34 | 55/95 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 64% | 53% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 4/9 | 3/10 | 9/26 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 44% | 30% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/3 | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
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