Jaime Faria and Aleksandr Braynin will face off in the qualifications of the Porto Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on CENTRAL COURT PORTO OPEN. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jaime Faria who should win in 3 sets.
Jaime Faria -> 1.5
Aleksandr Braynin -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Jaime Faria vs. Aleksandr Braynin
There is no head to head record between Jaime Faria and Aleksandr Braynin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jaime Faria
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-25 | 24-5 | 27-14 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-31 | 33-17 | 16-12 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-24 | 20-12 | 23-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 6-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 545, Faria reached the qualifications after beating Ji Sung Nam 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Jaime had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (6-4 6-4). During the match, Faria scored 59 points vs Sung Nam’s 49. Faria was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Faria was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the match and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Jaime Faria lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Faria put 57% of his first serves in, winning 63% (20/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (17/24) on the 2nd serve. Jaime broke Sung Nam 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Faria has a winning match record in the last 4 years having won 59% of his matches (79-54). 13-9 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Faria has an aggregate40-28 win-loss record in the last 4 years on hard.
Faria’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and M25 Castelo Branco.
Faria has an aggregate 24-19 win-loss record in 2023, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Aleksandr Braynin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-22 | 11-6 | 6-10 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2023 | 36-39 | 13-12 | 17-18 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2022 | 19-13 | 0-0 | 19-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-17 | 3-1 | 30-15 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 766 (career-high), Aleksandr got to the qualifications after beating Daniel Cox 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Braynin had a good straight sets win against Cox (6-4 6-4). During the match Braynin scored 63 points vs Cox’s 58. Aleksandr was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Braynin made 2 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Aleksandr Braynin lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Braynin put 56% of his first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Aleksandr broke Cox 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
The Ukrainian has an aggregate 22-22 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
The Ukrainian has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Faria | Braynin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 |
| Pts | 59-49 | 63-58 |
| Total Points | 108 | 121 |
| Winners | 20 | 22 |
| %Winners | 34% | 35% |
Both Faria and Braynin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Faria and Braynin have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (20). The Portuguese scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Ukrainian scored 22 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Faria | Braynin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 2 |
| 1st in | 32/56 | 32/57 |
| %1st in | 57% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 20/32 | 22/32 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 17/24 | 12/25 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 48% |
Faria didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Braynin fired 2 aces . Faria won 63% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Braynin won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Faria | Braynin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 67% | 56% |
| Conceded | 4 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 50% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Jaime broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Faria conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Aleksandr broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Braynin conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded.
| Faria | |||
| Q1 Sung Nam | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 59-49 | 59-49 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/56 | 32/56 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 20/32 | 20/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/24 | 17/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Braynin | |||
| Q1 Cox | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 63-58 | 63-58 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 32/57 | 32/57 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 22/32 | 22/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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