Gustavo Heide and Max Houkes will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Montevideo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CANCHA 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gustavo Heide who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gustavo Heide is the pick to win this match.
Gustavo Heide -> 1.69
Max Houkes -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Gustavo Heide vs. Max Houkes
There is no head to head record between Gustavo Heide and Max Houkes since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Gustavo Heide
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 9-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-22 | 9-5 | 24-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-13 | 3-2 | 24-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-14 | 4-5 | 27-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 270, the Brazilian got to the 2nd round after defeating Ignacio Carou 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Gustavo had a good straight sets win against Carou (6-3 7-5). During the match, Heide scored 65 points vs Carou’s 52. Heide was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Heide blasted 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Gustavo Heide lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Heide put 59% of his first serves in, winning 74% (25/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Heide broke Carou 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Heide has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 66% of his matches (99-52). 22-16 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Heide has an overall85-42 record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Bogota Challenger where he defeated Thiago Agustin Tirante in the final w/o.
Heide has a composed 29-19 win-loss record in 2023, 22-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
The Brazilian has never competed in this tournament before.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 11-9 | 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. 369, Houkes reached the 2nd round after beating Federico Aguilar Cardozo 6-2 6-1, Gastao Elias 6-1 2-0 ret. and Pedro Cachin 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Max had a good straight sets win against Cachin (6-4 6-3). During the match Houkes scored 64 points vs Cachin’s 45. Houkes was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Houkes was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Max Houkes was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Max broke Cachin 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Houkes’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Palmanova and M25 The Hague.
Houkes has a composed 40-31 win-loss record in 2023, 39-28 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Heide | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 43 |
| Pts | 65-52 | 160-104 |
| Total Points | 117 | 264 |
| Winners | 25 | 65 |
| %Winners | 38% | 41% |
Heide played 1 match while Houkes competed in 3 matches. Houkes started his run from the qualifications while Heide had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Heide has played 5 set(s) less than Houkes (2 vs 7). Therefore, Heide played 22 games less than Houkes. Gustavo scored 25 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Houkes blasted 65 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Heide | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0.3 |
| 1st in | 34/58 | 85/127 |
| %1st in | 59% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 65/85 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 11/24 | 23/42 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 55% |
Heide struck 2 aces . Houkes made 1 ace (0.3 per match). Heide won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Houkes won 76% 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 | Heide | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 12 |
| Converted | 6/7 | 12/19 |
| % Converted | 86% | 63% |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 |
| Saved | 4 | 6 |
| % Saved | 57% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Gustavo broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. The Brazilian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Houkes broke his opponents 12 times with a 63% conversion rate. Houkes conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Heide | |||
| R1 Carou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 65-52 | 65-52 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 34/58 | 34/58 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/24 | 11/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Houkes | |||||
| Q1 Aguilar |
Q3 Elias |
R1 Cachin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-1 2-0 ret. | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 9 | 19 | 43 | |
| pts | 55-36 | 41-23 | 64-45 | 160-104 | |
| Total points | 91 | 64 | 109 | 264 | |
| Winners | 21 | 17 | 27 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 41% | 42% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 28/48 | 21/28 | 36/51 | 85/127 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 75% | 71% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 21/28 | 17/21 | 27/36 | 65/85 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 81% | 75% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 4/7 | 8/15 | 23/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 57% | 53% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 3/7 | 4/6 | 12/19 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 43% | 67% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 50% | 250% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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