Felipe Meligeni Alves and Max Houkes will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Guayaquil Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.363
Max Houkes -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Max Houkes
There is no head to head record between Felipe Meligeni Alves and Max Houkes since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Felipe Meligeni Alves
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-16 | 2-5 | 17-8 | 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. 147, Felipe reached the 2nd round after beating Nicolas Mejia 4-6 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round against Mejia, Meligeni Alves recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-4). During the match, Meligeni Alves scored 96 points vs Mejia’s 79. The Brazilian was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Regarding the service games, Meligeni Alves managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Felipe Meligeni Alves lost the serve twice and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Meligeni Alves put 73% of his first serves in, winning 64% (43/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the 2nd serve. Felipe broke Mejia 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Meligeni Alves has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (274-178). 24-19 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Meligeni Alves has a composed242-149 record in the last 8 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Lyon Challenger where he overcame Alexander Ritschard in the final 6-4 0-6 7-6(7).
Felipe has an aggregate 34-26 win-loss record in 2023, 24-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guayaquil Challenger
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-11 | 0-0 | 20-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-11 | 7-3 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 367, Houkes reached the 2nd round after beating Gilbert Klier Junior 7-65 6-3, Pedro Boscardin Dias 6-3 6-2 and Carlos Taberner 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Houkes had a good straight sets win against Taberner (6-3 6-1). During the match Houkes scored 67 points vs Taberner’s 42. Houkes was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Houkes blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Max Houkes lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Houkes put 56% of his first serves in, winning 100% (23/23) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (7/18) on the 2nd serve. Houkes broke Taberner 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Houkes’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Palmanova and M25 The Hague.
Max has an overall 37-29 win-loss record in 2023, 36-26 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guayaquil Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Meligeni Alves | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 55 |
| Pts | 96-79 | 205-154 |
| Total Points | 175 | 359 |
| Winners | 43 | 75 |
| %Winners | 45% | 37% |
Meligeni Alves played 1 match while Houkes competed in 3 matches. Houkes started his run from the qualifications while Meligeni Alves had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Felipe Meligeni Alves surrendered 1 set while Max Houkes hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Meligeni Alves has played 3 set(s) less than Houkes (3 vs 6). Therefore, Meligeni Alves played 27 games less than Houkes. Meligeni Alves scored 43 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Houkes recorded 75 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Meligeni Alves | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 2.7 |
| 1st in | 67/92 | 93/158 |
| %1st in | 73% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 43/67 | 75/93 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 31/65 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 48% |
Meligeni Alves scored 3 aces . Houkes managed to score 8 aces (2.7 per match). Meligeni Alves won 64% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Houkes won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Meligeni Alves | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 13 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 13/27 |
| % Converted | 44% | 48% |
| Conceded | 13 | 9 |
| Saved | 11 | 4 |
| % Saved | 85% | 44% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 5 |
Meligeni Alves broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Brazilian lost his serve twice and he saved 85% of the break points that he conceded. Houkes broke his opponents 13 times with a 48% conversion rate. Houkes conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded.
| Meligeni Alves | |||
| R1 Mejia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 96-79 | 96-79 | |
| Total points | 175 | 175 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 67/92 | 67/92 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 43/67 | 43/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 11/13 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 85% | 85% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Houkes | |||||
| Q1 Klier |
Q3 Boscardin |
R1 Taberner |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | 6-3 6-2 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 | 16 | 55 | |
| pts | 76-68 | 62-44 | 67-42 | 205-154 | |
| Total points | 144 | 106 | 109 | 359 | |
| Winners | 24 | 28 | 23 | 75 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 45% | 34% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 4 | 2 | 14 | |
| 1st in | 37/66 | 33/51 | 23/41 | 93/158 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 65% | 56% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 24/37 | 28/33 | 23/23 | 75/93 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 85% | 100% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/29 | 11/18 | 7/18 | 31/65 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 61% | 39% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 5 | 13 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 3/5 | 5/9 | 13/27 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 60% | 56% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 | 4 | 9 | |
| Saved | 1/5 | 0/0 | 3/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 20% | – | 75% | 95% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
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