Ulises Blanch and Pedro Sousa will square off in the 1st round of the Oeiras 4 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pedro Sousa who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pedro Sousa is the pick to win this match.
Pedro Sousa -> 1.53
Ulises Blanch -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Ulises Blanch vs. Pedro Sousa
This will be the 2nd time that Ulises Blanch and Pedro Sousa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Blanch (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Blanch won 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in at the U.S. Open back in 2021.
Ulises Blanch
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-7 | 10-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-23 | 14-11 | 7-7 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 10-12 | 6-5 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 16-21 | 11-13 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-15 | 7-6 | 3-5 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 354, the American reached the 1st round after beating Alibek Kachmazov 6-4 7-5 and Javier Barranco Cosano 7-64 7-61.
In the qualifications, Ulises had a good straight sets win against Barranco Cosano (7-64 7-61). During the match, Blanch scored 92 points vs Barranco Cosano’s 83. Blanch was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Blanch made 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ulises Blanch lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Blanch put 55% of his first serves in, winning 70% (33/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (22/38) on the 2nd serve. Blanch broke Barranco Cosano twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 53% of the points he played.
Blanch has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 52% of his matches (184-170). 2-2 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Blanch has an overall74-64 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
The American has a compiled 9-11 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Oeiras 4 Challenger
Blanch has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 362, the Portuguese will start his run in the Oeiras 4 Challenger after he played his last match in the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Manuel in the semifinal on the 22nd of April.
Pedro has a composed 8-7 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Sousa’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 3 Challenger.
In terms of his career, Sousa has an overall 514-331 record. He has a positive 458-267 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
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- Hugo DellienDellien – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao DominguesDomingues – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Eduardo RibeiroRibeiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Pedro SousaSousa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
