Billy Harris and Joao Fonseca will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Nottingham 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.727
Joao Fonseca -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Billy Harris vs. Joao Fonseca
There is no head to head record between Billy Harris and Joao Fonseca since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Billy Harris
18 - 18win/loss
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LWWWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-21 | 3-3 | 6-8 | 5-6 | 11-4 | 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. 183, the Brit got to the 2nd round after defeating Chak Lam Coleman Wong 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Lam Coleman Wong (6-3 6-4). During the match, Harris scored 57 points vs Lam Coleman Wong’s 42. Billy was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Harris struck 4 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Billy Harris was very efficient on serve to win 83% (35/42) of his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Billy was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Lam Coleman Wong twice.
Harris has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (362-222). 4-1 on grass in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Harris has a composed 19-12 win-loss record in the last years on grass.
Harris’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Surbiton Challenger.
Harris has a composed 18-18 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nottingham 2 Challenger
Harris has never competed in this tournament before.
Joao Fonseca
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-15 | 0-0 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 224 (career-high), the Brazilian got to the 2nd round after beating Damir Dzumhur 6-1 7-5.
In the 1st round, Fonseca had a good straight sets win against Dzumhur (6-1 7-5). During the match Fonseca scored 65 points vs Dzumhur’s 47. The Brazilian was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Fonseca recorded 8 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Joao Fonseca lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Fonseca put 67% of his first serves in, winning 72% (28/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. The Brazilian broke Dzumhur 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Joao’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Asuncion Challenger.
Joao has a compiled 16-12 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Harris | Fonseca |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 |
| Pts | 57-42 | 65-47 |
| Total Points | 99 | 112 |
| Winners | 35 | 28 |
| %Winners | 61% | 43% |
Both Harris and Fonseca played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Harris and Fonseca have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). Harris scored 35 winners (61% of the total points). On the other side, The Brazilian made 28 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Harris | Fonseca |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 8 |
| 1st in | 42/53 | 39/58 |
| %1st in | 79% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 35/42 | 28/39 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 8/19 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 42% |
Harris made 4 aces . Fonseca recorded 8 aces . Harris won 83% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Fonseca won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Harris | Fonseca |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 6 |
| Converted | 2/2 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 75% |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Harris broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The Brit was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Joao broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Brazilian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Harris | |||
| R1 Lam Coleman Wong |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 57-42 | 57-42 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 61% | 61% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 42/53 | 42/53 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 79% | |
| 1st pts | 35/42 | 35/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Fonseca | |||
| R1 Dzumhur |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 65-47 | 65-47 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 39/58 | 39/58 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 28/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 8/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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