Felipe Meligeni Alves and Oliver Crawford will face off in the 2nd round of the Curitiba Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on QUADRA CENTRAL (4). 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 Felipe Meligeni Alves who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Felipe Meligeni Alves is the pick to win this match.
Felipe Meligeni Alves -> 1.32
Oliver Crawford -> 3.16
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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Oliver Crawford
This will be the 2nd time that Felipe Meligeni Alves and Oliver Crawford fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Meligeni Alves (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Meligeni Alves won 7-6(6) 6-3 in the 1st round in the Santiago 3 Challenger back in 2021.
Felipe Meligeni Alves
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 27-22 | 2-7 | 22-12 | 0-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 36-29 | 8-6 | 26-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 33-29 | 0-3 | 33-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 34-28 | 1-2 | 33-25 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 19-10 | 0-2 | 19-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 144, Felipe got to the 2nd round after defeating Bruno Kuzuhara 7-66 6-4.
In the 1st round, Felipe had a good straight sets win against Kuzuhara (7-66 6-4). During the match, Meligeni Alves scored 78 points vs Kuzuhara’s 71. Felipe was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Regarding the service games, Meligeni Alves managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Felipe Meligeni Alves was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (37/49) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brazilian broke Kuzuhara twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Meligeni Alves has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (273-177). 23-18 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Meligeni Alves has an overall241-148 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Lyon Challenger where he defeated Alexander Ritschard in the final 6-4 0-6 7-6(7).
The Brazilian has a composed 33-25 win-loss record in 2023, 23-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Curitiba Challenger
Oliver Crawford
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 24-21 | 6-4 | 18-16 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 62-27 | 17-9 | 43-17 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 52-25 | 14-8 | 38-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 52-23 | 23-11 | 29-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-1 | 9-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 225 (career-high), Crawford reached the 2nd round after beating Juan Bautista Torres 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Oliver had a good straight sets win against Bautista Torres (6-1 6-3). During the match Crawford scored 63 points vs Bautista Torres’s 42. Oliver was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Crawford blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Oliver Crawford was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Oliver broke Bautista Torres 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Crawford’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Monastir,M25 Varnamo,M25 Klosters,M25 Gandia,M25 Oldenzaal,M25 Kigali and the Charleston Challenger.
Oliver has a composed 59-23 win-loss record in 2023, 40-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Meligeni Alves | Crawford |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 23 | 16 |
Pts | 78-71 | 63-42 |
Total Points | 149 | 105 |
Winners | 37 | 25 |
%Winners | 47% | 40% |
Both Meligeni Alves and Crawford played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Meligeni Alves and Crawford have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Meligeni Alves played 7 games more than Crawford. Meligeni Alves scored 37 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The American made 25 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Meligeni Alves | Crawford |
---|---|---|
Aces | 5 | 4 |
Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
1st in | 49/72 | 31/51 |
%1st in | 68% | 61% |
1st pts | 37/49 | 25/31 |
%1st pts | 76% | 81% |
2nd pts | 13/23 | 11/20 |
%2nd pts | 57% | 55% |
Meligeni Alves bagged 5 aces . Crawford struck 4 aces . Meligeni Alves won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Crawford won 81% 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 | Meligeni Alves | Crawford |
---|---|---|
Won | 2 | 4 |
Converted | 2/4 | 4/8 |
% Converted | 50% | 50% |
Conceded | 2 | 5 |
Saved | 1 | 5 |
% Saved | 50% | 100% |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Felipe broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Brazilian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Oliver broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
Meligeni Alves | |||
R1 Kuzuhara |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-66 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
pts | 78-71 | 78-71 | |
Total points | 149 | 149 | |
Winners | 37 | 37 | |
%Winners | 47% | 47% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 5 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 49/72 | 49/72 | |
% 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
1st pts | 37/49 | 37/49 | |
% 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
% 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Crawford | |||
R1 Bautista |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
pts | 63-42 | 63-42 | |
Total points | 105 | 105 | |
Winners | 25 | 25 | |
%Winners | 40% | 40% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 31/51 | 31/51 | |
% 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
% 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
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