Joao Sousa and Paul Jubb will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Oeiras 1 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Joao Sousa who should win in 3 sets.
Joao Sousa -> 1.82
Paul Jubb -> 1.92
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Prediction and head to head Joao Sousa vs. Paul Jubb
This will be the 2nd time that Joao Sousa and Paul Jubb fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sousa (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Sousa won 6-0 6-3 6-7(8) 6-1 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in 2019.
Joao Sousa
| 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 |
Ranked no. 249, the Portuguese reached the 2nd round after beating Samuel Vincent Ruggeri 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Joao had a good straight sets win against Vincent Ruggeri (6-4 6-2). During the match, Sousa scored 67 points vs Vincent Ruggeri’s 44. Joao was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sousa wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Joao Sousa was pretty efficient on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Portuguese broke Vincent Ruggeri 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Sousa has a unfavourable record in the last 10 years having won only 47% of his matches (238-271). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2024. . In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sousa has an aggregate 59-50 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Sousa has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Oeiras 1 Challenger
Paul Jubb
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 47-27 | 26-13 | 0-2 | 12-7 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-13 | 19-9 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-26 | 7-9 | 10-4 | 12-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 51-13 | 48-10 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 669, Jubb got to the 2nd round after beating Nicolas Alvarez Varona 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Jubb had a good straight sets win against Alvarez Varona (7-5 6-2). During the match Jubb scored 75 points vs Alvarez Varona’s 55. Paul was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Jubb fired 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Paul Jubb was extremely effective on serve to win 96% (26/27) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brit broke Alvarez Varona 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Jubb has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sousa | Jubb |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 20 |
| Pts | 67-44 | 75-55 |
| Total Points | 111 | 130 |
| Winners | 25 | 26 |
| %Winners | 37% | 35% |
Both Sousa and Jubb played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sousa and Jubb have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sousa played 2 games less than Jubb. The Portuguese scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Jubb recorded 26 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sousa | Jubb |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 7 |
| 1st in | 30/46 | 27/54 |
| %1st in | 65% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 26/27 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 96% |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 15/27 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 56% |
Sousa didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Jubb fired 7 aces . Sousa won 83% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Jubb won 96% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sousa | Jubb |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 60% | 36% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Portuguese broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Joao was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Paul broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Jubb conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sousa | |||
| R1 Vincent | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-44 | 67-44 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/46 | 30/46 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 25/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Jubb | |||
| R1 Alvarez | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 75-55 | 75-55 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 27/54 | 27/54 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 26/27 | 26/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 96% | 96% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/27 | 15/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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