Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Jaime Faria will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Porto Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on BANCO CARREGOSA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pierre-Hugues Herbert who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Pierre-Hugues Herbert is the pick to win this match.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 1.3
Jaime Faria -> 3.3

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Prediction and head to head Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Jaime Faria

There is no head to head record between Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Jaime Faria since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert

Ranked no. 450, the French player reached the 2^nd round after defeating Laurent Lokoli 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Herbert had a good straight sets win against Lokoli (6-4 6-4). During the match, Herbert scored 64 points vs Lokoli’s 49. Pierre-Hugues was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Herbert recorded 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Pierre-Hugues Herbert was very effective on serve to win 94% (31/33) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Herbert broke Lokoli twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Herbert has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (252-200). 1-2 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Herbert has a composed 67-62 match record in the last years on hard.

Herbert’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the St. Brieuc Challenger.

Herbert has a compiled 12-13 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Porto Challenger

Pierre-Hugues has never competed in this tournament before.

Jaime Faria

Ranked no. 516 (career-high), Jaime got to the 2^nd round after beating Ji Sung Nam 6-4 6-4, Aleksandr Braynin 6-4 7-5 and Hugo Grenier 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Grenier (6-4 6-3). During the match Faria scored 64 points vs Grenier’s 53. Faria was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Faria made 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jaime Faria was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Portuguese broke Grenier 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Faria’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and M25 Castelo Branco.

Jaime has an overall 26-19 win-loss record in 2023, 15-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Porto Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Herbert	Faria
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	6
Tot Games	20	61
Pts	64-49	212-176
Total Points	113	388
Winners	31	73
%Winners	48%	34%

Herbert played 1 match while Faria competed in 3 matches. Faria started his run from the qualifications while Herbert had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Herbert has played 4 set(s) less than Faria (2 vs 6). Therefore, Herbert played 41 games less than Faria. Herbert scored 31 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Faria managed to score 73 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Herbert	Faria
Aces	3	6
Avg per match	3	2
1st in	33/49	100/179
%1st in	67%	56%
1st pts	31/33	73/100
%1st pts	94%	73%
2nd pts	10/16	52/79
%2nd pts	63%	66%

Herbert bagged 3 aces . Faria made 6 aces (2 per match). Herbert won 94% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Faria won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 66% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Herbert	Faria
Won	2	9
Converted	2/7	9/21
% Converted	29%	43%
Conceded	1	12
Saved	1	10
% Saved	100%	83%
Times Broken	0	2

Herbert broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Pierre-Hugues very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Portuguese broke his opponents 9 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Herbert
	R1 Lokoli	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	64-49	64-49
Total points	113	113
Winners	31	31
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	33/49	33/49
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	31/33	31/33
% 1st pts	94%	94%
2nd pts	10/16	10/16
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Faria
	Q1 Sung Nam	Q3 Braynin	R1 Grenier	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	6-4 7-5	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	20	22	19	61
pts	59-49	89-74	64-53	212-176
Total points	108	163	117	388
Winners	20	27	26	73
%Winners	34%	30%	41%	34%
SERVE
Aces	0	2	4	6
Double Faults	0	3	3	6
1st in	32/56	33/64	35/59	100/179
% 1st in	57%	52%	59%	56%
1st pts	20/32	27/33	26/35	73/100
% 1st pts	63%	82%	74%	73%
2nd pts	17/24	20/31	15/24	52/79
% 2nd pts	71%	65%	63%	66%
Breaks
Won	4	2	3	9
Converted	4/6	2/8	3/7	9/21
Converted %	67%	25%	43%	43%
Conceded	4	1	7	12
Saved	2/4	1/1	7/7	10
Saved %	50%	100%	100%	250%
Times Broken	2	0	0	2

Tennis Scores in Porto Challenger

• Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Lucas PoullainPoullain (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Steven DiezDiez – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Emilio NavaNava – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (7-6³ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Gastao EliasElias – Quentin HalysHalys (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Jaime FariaFaria – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Henrique RochaRocha – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Jules MarieMarie – Benjamin LockLock (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Kenny de Schepperde Schepper (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Laurent LokoliLokoli (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-7⁵ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Luca NardiNardi – Nicolas MejiaMejia (3-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (2-6 6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Dominik PalanPalan (6-3 7-6²) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gastao EliasElias – Jules MarieMarie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Joao DominguesDomingues – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – (0-0) – H2H and prediction