Mariano Navone and Gastao Elias will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:30 pm on CANCHA 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 Mariano Navone who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mariano Navone is the pick to win this match.
Mariano Navone -> 1.61
Gastao Elias -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Mariano Navone vs. Gastao Elias
This will be the 2nd time that Mariano Navone and Gastao Elias play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Navone (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Navone won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger back in 2022.
Mariano Navone
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-31 | 5-12 | 30-16 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-28 | 2-7 | 27-14 | 1-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 40-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 0-1 | 44-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-24 | 0-0 | 40-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 190, Mariano got to the 2nd round after defeating Murkel Alejandro Dellien Velasco 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mariano had a good straight sets win against Alejandro Dellien Velasco (6-2 6-2). During the match, Navone scored 57 points vs Alejandro Dellien Velasco’s 31. The Argentine was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Navone managed to score 2 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Mariano Navone was very efficient on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mariano broke Alejandro Dellien Velasco 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Navone has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (177-103). 27-20 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Navone has an aggregate173-98 record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Poznan Challenger where he beat Tomas Barrios Vera in the final 7-5 6-3 and the Santa Fe Challenger where he defeated Adolfo Daniel Vallejo in the final 6-2 6-4 and the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger where he beat Francisco Comesana in the final 4-6 7-5 6-1.
The Argentine has a compiled 27-22 win-loss record in 2023, 27-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Gastao Elias
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-19 | 25-9 | 6-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-32 | 8-5 | 27-25 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-18 | 10-8 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 4-3 | 18-17 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 13-5 | 24-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 366, Gastao reached the 2nd round after defeating Ezequiel Monferrer 6-0 6-3 and Tomas Barrios Vera 4-6 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round against Tomas Barrios Vera, The Portuguese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-5). During the match Elias scored 96 points vs Tomas Barrios Vera’s 90. Gastao was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.
About the serving games, Elias scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Gastao Elias lost the serve 4 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Elias put 77% of his first serves in, winning 59% (48/81) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Gastao broke Tomas Barrios Vera 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Elias’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Girona Challenger.
The Portuguese has an overall 19-14 win-loss record in 2023, 9-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2011. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Navone | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 45 |
| Pts | 57-31 | 150-117 |
| Total Points | 88 | 267 |
| Winners | 22 | 63 |
| %Winners | 39% | 42% |
Navone played 1 match while Elias competed in 2 matches. Elias started his run from the qualifications while Navone had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Gastao Elias surrendered 1 set while Mariano Navone hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Navone has played 3 set(s) less than Elias (2 vs 5). Therefore, Navone played 29 games less than Elias. The Argentine scored 22 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Elias fired 63 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Navone | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1.5 |
| 1st in | 27/43 | 99/137 |
| %1st in | 63% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 63/99 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 24/38 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 63% |
Navone bagged 2 aces . Elias managed to score 3 aces (1.5 per match). Navone won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Elias won 64% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Navone | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 11 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 11/21 |
| % Converted | 63% | 52% |
| Conceded | 1 | 12 |
| Saved | 0 | 8 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Navone broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Argentine surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Gastao broke his opponents 11 times with a 52% conversion rate. Gastao conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Navone | |||
| R1 Alejandro Dellien Velasco |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-31 | 57-31 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 27/43 | 27/43 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Elias | |||||
| Q1 Monferrer |
Q3 Trungelliti |
R1 Tomas Barrios Vera |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | 6-1 6-4 | 4-6 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 17 | 30 | 62 | |
| pts | 54-27 | – | 96-90 | 150-117 | |
| Total points | 81 | 0 | 186 | 267 | |
| Winners | 15 | 48 | 63 | ||
| %Winners | 28% | 0% | 50% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1st in | 18/32 | / | 81/105 | 99/137 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 0% | 77% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 15/18 | / | 48/81 | 63/99 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 0% | 59% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/14 | / | 11/24 | 24/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 93% | 0% | 46% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 11 | ||
| Converted | 5/10 | / | 6/11 | 11/21 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 0% | 55% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 12 | 12 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/ | 8/12 | 8 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||
Head 2 Head
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