Pedro Martinez Portero and Billy Harris will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Alicante Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pedro Martinez Portero who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pedro Martinez Portero is the pick to win this match.
Pedro Martinez Portero -> 1.35
Billy Harris -> 3.02
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Prediction and head to head Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Billy Harris
There is no head to head record between Pedro Martinez Portero and Billy Harris since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Pedro Martinez Portero
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-31 | 7-9 | 27-13 | 2-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-35 | 6-9 | 33-25 | 5-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-30 | 7-12 | 13-13 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-25 | 4-5 | 21-13 | 5-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 35-13 | 6-5 | 29-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 116, Martinez Portero reached the 2nd round after beating Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Martinez Portero had a good straight sets win against Carreno-Busta (6-3 7-5). During the match, Martinez Portero scored 83 points vs Carreno-Busta’s 71. Pedro was pretty aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about the service games, Martinez Portero bagged 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Pedro Martinez Portero conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 13 break points. Furthermore, Martinez Portero put 69% of his first serves in, winning 75% (48/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Carreno-Busta twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Martinez Portero has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 61% of his matches (392-248). 4-6 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Martinez Portero has a composed58-50 record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Como Challenger.
Pedro has a composed 31-32 win-loss record in 2023, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Billy Harris
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-36 | 12-13 | 6-8 | 7-9 | 14-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-34 | 27-15 | 7-8 | 14-5 | 11-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-34 | 23-13 | 10-9 | 9-8 | 2-3 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 51-20 | 13-5 | 38-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-13 | 19-10 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 306, Billy got to the 2nd round after beating Illya Maksymchuk 4-6 6-4 7-5, Dali Blanch 6-1 3-6 6-3 and Altug Celikbilek 6-2 6-75 6-1.
In the 1st round, Harris defeated Celikbilek (6-2 6-75 6-1). During the match Harris scored 97 points vs Celikbilek’s 72. Billy was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Harris struck 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Billy Harris was exceptionally effective on serve to win 81% (38/47) of his 1st serve and 61% (22/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Harris broke Celikbilek 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Harris’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Las Franquesas del Valles Challenger and M25 Nottingham.
The Brit has a compiled 40-27 win-loss record in 2023, 22-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Martinez Portero | Harris |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 85 |
| Pts | 83-71 | 299-239 |
| Total Points | 154 | 538 |
| Winners | 48 | 116 |
| %Winners | 58% | 39% |
Martinez Portero played 1 match while Harris competed in 3 matches. Harris started his run from the qualifications while Martinez Portero had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Billy Harris conceded 3 sets while Pedro Martinez Portero hasn’t conceded a set so far. Martinez Portero has played 7 set(s) less than Harris (2 vs 9). Therefore, Martinez Portero played 64 games less than Harris. Pedro scored 48 winners (58% of the total points). On the other side, Harris bagged 116 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Martinez Portero | Harris |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 7 |
| 1st in | 64/93 | 152/261 |
| %1st in | 69% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 48/64 | 116/152 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 14/29 | 60/109 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 55% |
Martinez Portero managed to score 3 aces . Harris recorded 21 aces (7 per match). Martinez Portero won 75% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Harris won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Martinez Portero | Harris |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 14 |
| Converted | 2/5 | 14/31 |
| % Converted | 40% | 45% |
| Conceded | 13 | 17 |
| Saved | 13 | 10 |
| % Saved | 100% | 59% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 7 |
Martinez Portero broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Pedro extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 13 break points. Harris broke his opponents 14 times with a 45% conversion rate. Harris conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 59% of the break points that he conceded.
| Martinez Portero | |||
| R1 Carreno-Busta |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 83-71 | 83-71 | |
| Total points | 154 | 154 | |
| Winners | 48 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 58% | 58% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 64/93 | 64/93 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 48/64 | 48/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/29 | 14/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 13/13 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Harris | |||||
| Q1 Maksymchuk |
Q3 Blanch |
R1 Celikbilek |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 7-5 | 6-1 3-6 6-3 | 6-2 6-75 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 25 | 28 | 85 | |
| pts | 119-105 | 83-62 | 97-72 | 299-239 | |
| Total points | 224 | 145 | 169 | 538 | |
| Winners | 42 | 36 | 38 | 116 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 43% | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 11 | 2 | 8 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 3 | 4 | 16 | |
| 1st in | 58/105 | 47/73 | 47/83 | 152/261 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 64% | 57% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 42/58 | 36/47 | 38/47 | 116/152 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 77% | 81% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 24/47 | 14/26 | 22/36 | 60/109 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 54% | 61% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | |
| Converted | 5/15 | 4/6 | 5/10 | 14/31 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 67% | 50% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 4 | 4 | 17 | |
| Saved | 5/9 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 56% | 50% | 75% | 181% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
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