Billy Harris and Gastao Elias will play each other in the 2nd round of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on Court 3. 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 Billy Harris who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Billy Harris is the pick to win this match.
Billy Harris -> 1.48
Gastao Elias -> 2.53
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Prediction and head to head Billy Harris vs. Gastao Elias
There is no head to head record between Billy Harris and Gastao Elias since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Billy Harris
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-17 | 3-3 | 6-8 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-34 | 27-15 | 7-8 | 14-5 | 11-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-34 | 23-13 | 10-9 | 9-8 | 2-3 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 51-20 | 13-5 | 38-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-13 | 19-10 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 191 (career-high), Billy reached the 2nd round after beating Christopher O Connell 7-66 ret..
In the 1st round against O Connell, Billy had a free pass after O Connell retired on a 7-66 . scoreline.
Harris has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (348-209). 2-2 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Harris has an aggregate 143-81 record in the last years on hard.
The Brit has an overall 4-5 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Gastao Elias
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-13 | 7-4 | 9-7 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-18 | 10-8 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 4-3 | 18-17 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 13-5 | 24-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-7 | 14-3 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 295, Gastao got to the 2nd round after defeating Marko Nikolic 6-3 6-1, Yanki Erel 1-6 7-65 7-5 and Cem Ilkel 3-6 6-1 7-66.
In the 1st round against Ilkel, Gastao recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 7-66). During the match Elias scored 97 points vs Ilkel’s 93. Gastao was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Elias bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Gastao Elias lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Elias put 60% of his first serves in, winning 66% (41/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (20/41) on the 2nd serve. Elias broke Ilkel 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
The Portuguese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Oeiras 1 Challenger.
Gastao has an aggregate 10-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Harris | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 77 |
| Pts | 52-50 | 246-231 |
| Total Points | 102 | 477 |
| Winners | 23 | 110 |
| %Winners | 44% | 45% |
Harris played 1 match while Elias competed in 3 matches. Elias started his run from the qualifications while Harris had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Gastao Elias lost 2 sets while Billy Harris hasn’t lost a set so far. Harris has played 6 set(s) less than Elias (2 vs 8). Therefore, Harris played 64 games less than Elias. The Brit scored 23 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Gastao fired 110 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Harris | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6.3 |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 153/242 |
| %1st in | 58% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 110/153 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 39/89 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 44% |
Harris bagged 3 aces . Elias made 19 aces (6.3 per match). Harris won 79% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Elias won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Harris | Elias |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 0 | 14 |
| Converted | 0/3 | 14/27 |
| % Converted | 0% | 52% |
| Conceded | 4 | 23 |
| Saved | 4 | 13 |
| % Saved | 100% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 10 |
Harris hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. Billy pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 4 break points without even conceding a single break point. Gastao broke his opponents 14 times with a 52% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve 10 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Harris | |||
| R1 O |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 52-50 | 52-50 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 29/50 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/3 | 0/3 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 0% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Elias | |||||
| Q1 Nikolic |
Q3 Erel |
R1 Ilkel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 1-6 7-65 7-5 | 3-6 6-1 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 32 | 29 | 77 | |
| pts | 56-32 | 93-106 | 97-93 | 246-231 | |
| Total points | 88 | 199 | 190 | 477 | |
| Winners | 23 | 46 | 41 | 110 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 49% | 42% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 8 | 6 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 30/40 | 61/99 | 62/103 | 153/242 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 62% | 60% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 46/61 | 41/62 | 110/153 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 75% | 66% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/10 | 14/38 | 20/41 | 39/89 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 37% | 49% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 5 | 14 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 3/7 | 5/11 | 14/27 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 43% | 45% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 13 | 7 | 23 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 9/13 | 3/7 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 69% | 43% | 145% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWWWLWLLL Tennis Scores in Manama Challenger
- Daniel RinconRincon – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-4 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Lukas KleinKlein (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Nerman FaticFatic – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (7-63 7-65) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Yusuf QaedQaed (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Peter BuldoriniBuldorini – Ryan PenistonPeniston (2-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-66 ret.) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Elias YmerYmer (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Cem IlkelIlkel (3-6 6-1 7-66) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh – Jozef KovalikKovalik (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Laurent LokoliLokoli – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laurent LokoliLokoli – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Gastao EliasElias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
