Henrique Rocha and Kenny de Schepper will play each other in the 1st round of the Porto Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL EUPAGO. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Henrique Rocha who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Henrique Rocha is the pick to win this match.
Henrique Rocha -> 1.37
Kenny de Schepper -> 2.93
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Prediction and head to head Henrique Rocha vs. Kenny de Schepper
There is no head to head record between Henrique Rocha and Kenny de Schepper since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Henrique Rocha
25 - 20win/loss
171
158
LWWLLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-33 | 10-7 | 27-22 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 64-27 | 47-11 | 17-14 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-18 | 8-9 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-11 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 167 (career-high), Rocha will start his run in the Porto Challenger after he played his last match in Umag where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Trungelliti in the qualifications on the 21st of July.
Henrique has an aggregate 24-20 win-loss record in 2024, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Murcia Challenger where he beat Nikoloz Basilashvili in the final 3-6 7-6(0) 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, The Portuguese has an overall 110-77 record. He has a positive 64-31 record on hard.
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Kenny de Schepper
19 - 20win/loss
635
62
LWLWWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-31 | 14-9 | 4-8 | 13-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 7-4 | 8-14 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-35 | 6-7 | 18-16 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-24 | 22-8 | 5-5 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 9-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 611, Kenny got to the 1st round after beating Daniel Merida Aguilar 3-6 6-4 6-4 and Vadym Ursu 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications against Merida Aguilar, De Schepper recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 6-4). During the match de Schepper and Merida Aguilar scored the same amount of points (95). However, the world no. 167 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Kenny was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, de Schepper scored 3 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Kenny de Schepper lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, de Schepper put 59% of his first serves in, winning 71% (41/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (16/41) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Merida Aguilar 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
The French player best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Bressuire.
De Schepper has a composed 18-19 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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