Benoit Paire and Joao Sousa will square off in the 2^nd round of the Drummondville Challenger for the 7^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Joao Sousa who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Joao Sousa is the pick to win this match.
Joao Sousa -> 1.85
Benoit Paire -> 1.88

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Prediction and head to head Benoit Paire vs. Joao Sousa

This will be the 7^th time that Benoit Paire and Joao Sousa clash against each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Paire (see full H2H stats), but Sousa has a winning record of 2-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Paire won 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in Shanghai back in 2018.

Benoit Paire

Benoit Paire

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	6-16	3-6	0-4	3-5	0-1	0-0
2023	45-38	13-12	27-17	5-8	0-1	0-0
2022	16-31	7-13	6-14	3-2	0-2	0-0
2021	14-32	6-12	7-13	1-5	0-2	0-0
2020	10-13	8-6	1-3	1-4	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 126, Paire reached the 2^nd round after defeating Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Paire had a good straight sets win against Carlos Manuel Aguilar (6-3 6-4). During the match, Paire scored 60 points vs Carlos Manuel Aguilar’s 47. Benoit was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Paire bagged 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Benoit Paire was pretty efficient on serve to win 86% (25/29) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The French player was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Carlos Manuel Aguilar 3 times.

Paire has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (295-288). 5-7 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Paire has an aggregate 72-56 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Puerto Vallarta Challenger where he beat Yuta Shimizu in the final 3-6 6-0 6-2 and the San Benedetto Challenger where he defeated Richard Gasquet in the final 4-6 6-1 6-1.

Benoit has an aggregate 41-36 win-loss record in 2023, 5-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Drummondville Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Drummondville Challenger

Paire's Record

Joao Sousa

Joao Sousa

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Rank
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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	6-5	0-0	2-2	4-3	0-0	0-0
2023	23-33	6-8	10-20	5-4	0-0	2-1
2022	25-34	10-12	10-11	5-7	0-4	0-0
2021	28-31	11-9	4-11	11-6	2-5	0-0
2020	4-13	0-5	2-5	2-3	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 267, Joao got to the 2^nd round after defeating Toby Samuel 3-6 6-0 6-3.

In the 1^st round against Samuel, Sousa recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-0 6-3). During the match Sousa scored 80 points vs Samuel’s 59. The Portuguese was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Sousa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Joao Sousa was exceptionally effective on serve to win 72% (33/46) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Joao broke Samuel 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

The Portuguese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Porto Challenger.

The Portuguese has an aggregate 21-31 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Drummondville Challenger

Sousa's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Paire and Sousa played 1 match. At the moment, Joao Sousa surrendered 1 set while Benoit Paire hasn’t dropped a set so far. Paire has played 1 set(s) less than Sousa (2 vs 3). Therefore, Paire played 5 games less than Sousa. Paire scored 25 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Portuguese managed to score 33 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Paire made 8 aces . Sousa fired 1 ace . Paire won 86% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Sousa won 72% 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

Benoit broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The French player surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Sousa broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

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Benoit
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Joao
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Win Loss

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6 - 16

6 - 4

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0-0

3-5

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4-2

0-4

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2-2

Tennis Scores in Drummondville Challenger

• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Giles HusseyHussey (7-6⁴ 0-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Kiranpal PannuPannu (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (7-5 6-7² 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Benjamin Thomas GeorgeThomas George – Benjamin LockLock (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Liam DraxlDraxl – Steven DiezDiez (6-4 6-7⁷ 6-1) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Maxime JanvierJanvier (4-6 7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Olaf PieczkowskiPieczkowski – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (4-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Colin MarkesMarkes (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Zizou BergsBergs – Luke SavilleSaville (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Benoit PairePaire – Juan Carlos Manuel AguilarCarlos Manuel Aguilar (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – David Jorda SanchisJorda Sanchis (6-3 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Aziz DougazDougaz – Maks KasnikowskiKasnikowski (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Charles BroomBroom – Justin BoulaisBoulais (7-6⁴ 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Toby SamuelSamuel (3-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Luca WiedenmannWiedenmann (5-7 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Zizou BergsBergs – Luke SavilleSaville (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Colin MarkesMarkes (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Liam DraxlDraxl – Steven DiezDiez (6-4 6-7(7) 6-1) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Maxime JanvierJanvier (4-6 7-6(3) 6-3) – See score progression
• Dan MartinMartin – Alexander KotzenKotzen (2-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Giles HusseyHussey (7-6(4) 0-6 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Joao SousaSousa – Benoit PairePaire (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Dan MartinMartin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Charles BroomBroom – Aziz DougazDougaz (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Liam DraxlDraxl (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Paire

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Sousa