Dennis Novak and Frederico Ferreira Silva will face off in the 2nd round of the Alicante Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:30 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 Dennis Novak who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dennis Novak is the pick to win this match.
Dennis Novak -> 1.35
Frederico Ferreira Silva -> 3.02
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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Frederico Ferreira Silva
This will be the 2nd time that Dennis Novak and Frederico Ferreira Silva clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Novak (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Novak won 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in the Braga Challenger back in 2018.
Dennis Novak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-13 | 5-5 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 12-3 | 12-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 6-9 | 4-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-29 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-14 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194, the Austrian got to the 2nd round after beating Alex Molcan 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Dennis had a good straight sets win against Molcan (6-1 6-3). During the match, Novak scored 59 points vs Molcan’s 37. Dennis was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Novak bagged 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Dennis Novak was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dennis broke Molcan 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Novak has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (403-235). 10-2 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Novak has a composed 87-37 match record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger where he overcame Tung-Lin Wu in the final 6-4 6-4.
Dennis has an overall 29-18 win-loss record in 2023, 10-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Novak has never competed in this tournament before.
Frederico Ferreira Silva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-9 | 3-2 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-32 | 5-13 | 9-12 | 4-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-26 | 11-10 | 11-12 | 8-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-28 | 11-10 | 8-10 | 7-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-16 | 3-4 | 12-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 227, Ferreira Silva got to the 2nd round after beating Darwin Blanch 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Ferreira Silva had a good straight sets win against Blanch (6-4 6-3). During the match Ferreira Silva scored 64 points vs Blanch’s 43. Frederico was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Ferreira Silva made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Frederico Ferreira Silva was extremely efficient on serve to win 84% (31/37) of his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ferreira Silva broke Blanch twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Frederico’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Troisdorf Challenger.
Ferreira Silva has an aggregate 18-26 win-loss record in 2023, 4-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Novak | Ferreira Silva |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 |
| Pts | 59-37 | 64-43 |
| Total Points | 96 | 107 |
| Winners | 21 | 31 |
| %Winners | 36% | 48% |
Both Novak and Ferreira Silva played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Novak and Ferreira Silva have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Novak played 3 games less than Ferreira Silva. The Austrian scored 21 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Ferreira Silva blasted 31 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Novak | Ferreira Silva |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 4 |
| 1st in | 26/48 | 37/53 |
| %1st in | 54% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 31/37 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/16 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 75% |
Novak managed to score 10 aces . Ferreira Silva struck 4 aces . Novak won 81% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Ferreira Silva won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Novak | Ferreira Silva |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 2/3 |
| % Converted | 63% | 67% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 75% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Austrian broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Austrian dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Ferreira Silva broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Frederico was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Novak | |||
| R1 Molcan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-37 | 59-37 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 26/48 | 26/48 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ferreira Silva | |||
| R1 Blanch |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 64-43 | 64-43 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 37/53 | 37/53 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 31/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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