Bruno Kuzuhara and Igor Gimenez will play each other in the 1st round of the Porto Alegre Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on QUADRA 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bruno Kuzuhara who should win in 2 sets.
Bruno Kuzuhara -> 1.35
Igor Gimenez -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Bruno Kuzuhara vs. Igor Gimenez
This will be the 3rd time that Bruno Kuzuhara and Igor Gimenez play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Kuzuhara and Gimenez (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Kuzuhara won 3-6 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger back in March 2024.
Bruno Kuzuhara
12 - 11win/loss
466
394
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-32 | 12-16 | 15-11 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-30 | 13-6 | 28-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-23 | 8-13 | 20-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-13 | 6-6 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 462 (career-high), the American will start his run in the Porto Alegre Challenger after he played his last match in the Savannah Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Popko in the 1st round on the 22nd of April.
Kuzuhara has a composed 12-11 win-loss record in 2024, 9-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Bruno has an overall 90-77 record. He has a positive 59-47 record on clay.
Previously in the Porto Alegre Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Igor Gimenez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-25 | 6-3 | 25-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 2-5 | 42-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-30 | 4-3 | 43-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 671 (career-high), Gimenez got to the 1st round after defeating Jacob Brumm 6-2 6-2 and Daniel Dutra Da Silva 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Igor had a good straight sets win against Dutra Da Silva (6-4 6-2). During the match Gimenez scored 68 points vs Dutra Da Silva’s 51. The Brazilian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Gimenez scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Igor Gimenez lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gimenez put 52% of his first serves in, winning 59% (20/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (20/31) on the 2nd serve. Gimenez broke Dutra Da Silva 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Brazilian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Gimenez’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Maceio.
Igor has a composed 11-10 win-loss record in 2024, 9-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Porto Alegre Challenger
- Karue SellSell – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-1 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Guido Ivan JustoIvan Justo – Emilio GomezGomez (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Carlos Prado AngeloCarlos Prado Angelo – Jose PereiraPereira (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Alejo Lorenzo Lingua LavallenLorenzo Lingua Lavallen (7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Igor GimenezGimenez – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Leonardo AboianAboian – Wilson LeiteLeite (7-64 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Facundo MenaMena – Leonardo AboianAboian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto CidCid – Hady HabibHabib (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Karue SellSell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Guido Ivan JustoIvan Justo – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Igor GimenezGimenez – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Boscardin DiasBoscardin Dias – (0-1) – H2H and prediction