Joao Sousa and Pedro Sousa will play each other in the 2nd round of the Lisbon Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on ESTÁDIO CIF. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Joao Sousa who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Joao Sousa is the pick to win this match.
Joao Sousa -> 1.48
Pedro Sousa -> 2.51
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Prediction and head to head Joao Sousa vs. Pedro Sousa
This will be the 5th time that Joao Sousa and Pedro Sousa face off. The head to head is 4-0 for Joao Sousa (see full H2H stats), 4-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Joao Sousa won 4-6 7-6(1) 7-5 in the 2nd round in Estoril back in 2018.
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. 283, Joao got to the 2nd round after defeating Henrique Rocha 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Rocha (6-2 7-5). During the match, Joao Sousa scored 76 points vs Rocha’s 55. Joao was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Joao Sousa scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Joao Sousa lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Joao Sousa put 69% of his first serves in, winning 84% (32/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Joao Sousa broke Rocha 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
Joao Sousa has a weak record in the last 10 years having won only 46% of his matches (255-300). 8-18 on clay in 2023. . Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Joao Sousa has an overall 96-113 record in the last years on clay.
Joao Sousa’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Porto Challenger.
Joao has a compiled 15-26 win-loss record in 2023, 8-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lisbon Challenger
Joao Sousa 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. 497, Pedro got to the 2nd round after beating Titouan Droguet 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Pedro had a good straight sets win against Droguet (6-4 6-4). During the match Pedro Sousa scored 65 points vs Droguet’s 51. Pedro was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Pedro Sousa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Pedro Sousa was very effective on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Pedro Sousa broke Droguet 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Pedro Sousa’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 3 Challenger.
Pedro Sousa has an aggregate 9-8 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lisbon Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2020. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Joao Sousa | Pedro Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 |
| Pts | 76-55 | 65-51 |
| Total Points | 131 | 116 |
| Winners | 32 | 25 |
| %Winners | 42% | 38% |
Both Joao Sousa and Pedro Sousa played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Joao Sousa and Pedro Sousa have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (20). Joao scored 32 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Portuguese fired 25 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Joao Sousa | Pedro Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 38/55 | 32/47 |
| %1st in | 69% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 32/38 | 25/32 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 8/15 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 53% |
Joao Sousa bagged 1 ace . Pedro Sousa also fired 1 ace . Joao Sousa won 84% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Pedro Sousa won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Joao Sousa | Pedro Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/14 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 29% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 83% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Joao Sousa broke his opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Pedro Sousa broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Pedro conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Joao Sousa | |||
| R1 Rocha |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 76-55 | 76-55 | |
| Total points | 131 | 131 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 38/55 | 38/55 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 32/38 | 32/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 8/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/14 | 4/14 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Pedro Sousa | |||
| R1 Droguet |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 65-51 | 65-51 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/47 | 32/47 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 25/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 8/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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