Dennis Novak and Jaime Faria will square off in the quarter of the Oeiras 4 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jaime Faria who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jaime Faria is the pick to win this match.
Jaime Faria -> 1.61
Dennis Novak -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Jaime Faria

There is no head to head record between Dennis Novak and Jaime Faria since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Dennis Novak

Ranked no. 192, Novak reached the quarter after beating Dan Added 6-0 1-0 ret. and Alex Michelsen 7-6³ 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Novak had a good straight sets win against Michelsen (7-6³ 6-4). During the match, Novak scored 74 points vs Michelsen’s 63. The Austrian was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about the service games, Novak wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and he committed only 2 double faults. Dennis Novak lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Novak put 81% of his first serves in, winning 65% (34/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Dennis broke Michelsen 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Novak has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (371-229). 8-6 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Novak has an overall 181-117 match record in the last years on clay.

Novak has an aggregate 13-12 win-loss record in 2024, 8-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Oeiras 4 Challenger

The Austrian has never competed in this tournament before.

Jaime Faria

Ranked no. 233, Jaime got to the quarter after defeating Shintaro Mochizuki 6-2 6-4 and Gustavo Heide 6-4 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Jaime had a good straight sets win against Heide (6-4 6-4). During the match Faria scored 71 points vs Heide’s 59. The Portuguese was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Faria recorded 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Jaime Faria was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (30/38) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Jaime broke Heide 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jaime hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Faria’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio,M25 Faro,M25 Quinta Do Lago and M25 Vale do Lobo.

The Portuguese has an overall 32-8 win-loss record in 2024, 10-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Oeiras 4 Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023, 2023 and 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Novak	Faria
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	5	4
Tot Games	30	38
Pts	104-71	149-120
Total Points	175	269
Winners	44	57
%Winners	42%	38%

Both Novak and Faria played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Novak has played 1 set more than Faria (5 vs 4). However, it’s interesting to notice that Novak played 8 games less than Faria. The Austrian scored 44 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Portuguese blasted 57 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Novak	Faria
Aces	0	12
Avg per match	0	6
1st in	62/77	75/129
%1st in	81%	58%
1st pts	44/62	57/75
%1st pts	71%	76%
2nd pts	8/15	28/54
%2nd pts	53%	52%

Novak didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Faria managed to score 12 aces (6 per match). Novak won 71% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Faria won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Novak	Faria
Won	8	7
Converted	8/13	7/15
% Converted	62%	47%
Conceded	4	16
Saved	1	14
% Saved	25%	88%
Times Broken	3	2

Novak broke his opponents 8 times with a 62% conversion rate. Dennis lost his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. Jaime broke his opponents 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve twice and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Novak
	R1 Added	R2 Michelsen	Total
Score	6-0 1-0 ret.	7-63 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	7	23	30
pts	30-8	74-63	104-71
Total points	38	137	175
Winners	10	34	44
%Winners	33%	46%	42%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	0
Double Faults	0	2	2
1st in	10/13	52/64	62/77
% 1st in	77%	81%	81%
1st pts	10/10	34/52	44/62
% 1st pts	100%	65%	71%
2nd pts	2/3	6/12	8/15
% 2nd pts	67%	50%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4	8
Converted	4/6	4/7	8/13
Converted %	67%	57%	62%
Conceded	0	4	4
Saved	0/0	1/4	1
Saved %	–	25%	13%
Times Broken	0	3	3

Faria
	R1 Mochizuki	R2 Heide	Total
Score	6-2 6-4	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	18	20	38
pts	78-61	71-59	149-120
Total points	139	130	269
Winners	27	30	57
%Winners	35%	42%	38%
SERVE
Aces	6	6	12
Double Faults	6	5	11
1st in	37/68	38/61	75/129
% 1st in	54%	62%	58%
1st pts	27/37	30/38	57/75
% 1st pts	73%	79%	76%
2nd pts	16/31	12/23	28/54
% 2nd pts	52%	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	3	7
Converted	4/8	3/7	7/15
Converted %	50%	43%	47%
Conceded	10	6	16
Saved	9/10	5/6	14
Saved %	90%	83%	87%
Times Broken	1	1	2

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