Joao Sousa and Moez Echargui will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Braga Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Joao Sousa who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Joao Sousa is the pick to win this match.
Joao Sousa -> 1.363
Moez Echargui -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Joao Sousa vs. Moez Echargui
There is no head to head record between Joao Sousa and Moez Echargui since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Joao Sousa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-33 | 6-8 | 10-20 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 25-34 | 10-12 | 10-11 | 5-7 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-31 | 11-9 | 4-11 | 11-6 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-13 | 0-5 | 2-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 287,he will start his run in the Braga Challenger after he played his last match in 3 where he overcame 5-7 6-3 7-6(1) to Ofner in the Rubber 2 on the 15th of September.
The Portuguese has a composed 14-25 win-loss record in 2023, 7-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Joao’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Porto Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Portuguese has an overall 523-476 record. He has a positive 274-228 record on clay.
Previously in the Braga Challenger
Joao has never competed in this tournament before.
Moez Echargui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-25 | 9-10 | 12-14 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-34 | 23-10 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-29 | 7-2 | 37-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-24 | 38-17 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 302, Echargui got to the 1st round after beating Jeremy Jahn 6-1 6-2 and Salvatore Caruso 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Tunisian had a good straight sets win against Caruso (6-1 6-3). During the match Echargui scored 62 points vs Caruso’s 40. Echargui was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Echargui blasted 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Moez Echargui lost the serve once. Furthermore, Echargui put 53% of his first serves in, winning 88% (22/25) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. The Tunisian broke Caruso 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Echargui started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 62% of the points he played.
Echargui’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Monastir.
Moez has an aggregate 39-26 win-loss record in 2023, 22-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gastao EliasElias – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Joao SousaSousa – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao DominguesDomingues – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Timo StodderStodder (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Mate ValkuszValkusz (1-1) – H2H and prediction
