Felipe Meligeni Alves and Dimitar Kuzmanov will play each other in the qualifications of the Aix En Provence Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT EIFFAGE. 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 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 -> 1.49
Dimitar Kuzmanov -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Dimitar Kuzmanov
This will be the 5th time that Felipe Meligeni Alves and Dimitar Kuzmanov clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Meligeni Alves (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Meligeni Alves won 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Tenerife 1 Challenger back in January 2024.
Felipe Meligeni Alves
10 - 10win/loss
136
128
LWWWWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 2-5 | 14-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 8-6 | 26-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 0-3 | 33-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-28 | 1-2 | 33-25 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-10 | 0-2 | 19-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128 (career-high), Meligeni Alves reached the qualifications after defeating Ugo Blanchet 7-65 7-65.
In the qualifications, The Brazilian had a good straight sets win against Blanchet (7-65 7-65). During the match, Meligeni Alves scored 86 points vs Blanchet’s 83. Felipe was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Meligeni Alves fired 3 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Felipe Meligeni Alves lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Meligeni Alves put 69% of his first serves in, winning 64% (38/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (18/26) on the 2nd serve. Felipe broke Blanchet twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Meligeni Alves has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (285-191). 7-4 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Meligeni Alves has an overall251-156 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
Felipe’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger.
Felipe has a composed 9-10 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Aix En Provence Challenger
Felipe has never competed in this tournament before.
Dimitar Kuzmanov
7 - 13win/loss
249
158
LWWWLWLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-14 | 2-5 | 5-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-25 | 9-7 | 22-15 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-26 | 10-7 | 16-13 | 4-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-25 | 8-6 | 22-15 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 4-1 | 13-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 265, Kuzmanov reached the qualifications after beating Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kuzmanov had a good straight sets win against Herbert (6-4 6-2). During the match Kuzmanov scored 63 points vs Herbert’s 43. The Bulgarian was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuzmanov bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Dimitar Kuzmanov was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kuzmanov broke Herbert 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Dimitar has an overall 7-12 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Meligeni Alves | Kuzmanov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 18 |
| Pts | 86-83 | 63-43 |
| Total Points | 169 | 106 |
| Winners | 38 | 29 |
| %Winners | 44% | 46% |
Both Meligeni Alves and Kuzmanov 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 Kuzmanov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Meligeni Alves played 8 games more than Kuzmanov. The Brazilian scored 38 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Dimitar managed to score 29 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Meligeni Alves | Kuzmanov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 2 |
| 1st in | 59/85 | 35/47 |
| %1st in | 69% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 38/59 | 29/35 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 18/26 | 8/12 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 67% |
Meligeni Alves blasted 3 aces . Kuzmanov blasted 2 aces . Meligeni Alves won 64% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Kuzmanov won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Meligeni Alves | Kuzmanov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 29% | 33% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 33% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Felipe broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Felipe surrendered his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The Bulgarian broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Dimitar was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Meligeni Alves | |||
| Q1 Blanchet |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 86-83 | 86-83 | |
| Total points | 169 | 169 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 59/85 | 59/85 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 38/59 | 38/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/26 | 18/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kuzmanov | |||
| Q1 Herbert |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-43 | 63-43 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/47 | 35/47 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 8/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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