Felipe Meligeni Alves and Juan Manuel Cerundolo will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Rio Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 4:00 pm on QUADRA GUGA KUERTEN. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felipe Meligeni Alves who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Felipe Meligeni Alves is the pick to win this match.
Felipe Meligeni Alves -> 1.74
Juan Manuel Cerundolo -> 2.02

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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Juan Manuel Cerundolo

There is no head to head record between Felipe Meligeni Alves and Juan Manuel Cerundolo since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Felipe Meligeni Alves

Ranked no. 151, Felipe got to the qualifications after defeating Alex Molcan 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Felipe had a good straight sets win against Molcan (6-2 6-3). During the match, Meligeni Alves scored 55 points vs Molcan’s 40. Meligeni Alves was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about the service games, Meligeni Alves blasted 6 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Felipe Meligeni Alves was pretty efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brazilian broke Molcan 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Meligeni Alves has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (280-185). 2-1 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Meligeni Alves has an aggregate246-153 record in the last 9 years on clay.

Felipe has a compiled 4-4 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rio de Janeiro

Juan Manuel Cerundolo

Ranked no. 163, Juan reached the qualifications after defeating Luciano Darderi 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications, Juan had a good straight sets win against Darderi (6-2 6-2). During the match Manuel Cerundolo scored 59 points vs Darderi’s 36. Manuel Cerundolo was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Manuel Cerundolo scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Juan Manuel Cerundolo was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Darderi 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Juan has a compiled 3-5 win-loss record in 2024, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rio de Janeiro

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st

round in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Meligeni Alves	Manuel Cerundolo
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	16
Pts	55-40	59-36
Total Points	95	95
Winners	20	23
%Winners	36%	39%

Both Meligeni Alves and Manuel Cerundolo played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Meligeni Alves and Manuel Cerundolo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Meligeni Alves played 1 game more than Manuel Cerundolo. Felipe scored 20 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine fired 23 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Meligeni Alves	Manuel Cerundolo
Aces	6	2
Avg per match	6	2
1st in	26/42	29/40
%1st in	62%	73%
1st pts	20/26	23/29
%1st pts	77%	79%
2nd pts	10/16	6/11
%2nd pts	63%	55%

Meligeni Alves blasted 6 aces . Manuel Cerundolo blasted 2 aces . Meligeni Alves won 77% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Manuel Cerundolo won 79% 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	Meligeni Alves	Manuel Cerundolo
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/10
% Converted	63%	50%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0	0
% Saved	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Meligeni Alves broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Meligeni Alves surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Juan broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Meligeni Alves
	Q1 Molcan	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	55-40	55-40
Total points	95	95
Winners	20	20
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	26/42	26/42
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	20/26	20/26
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	10/16	10/16
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Manuel Cerundolo
	Q1 Darderi	Total
Score	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	59-36	59-36
Total points	95	95
Winners	23	23
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	29/40	29/40
% 1st in	73%	73%
1st pts	23/29	23/29
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	6/11	6/11
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/10	5/10
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

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