Jaime Faria and Vadym Ursu will fight against each other in the quarter of the Porto Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL EUPAGO. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jaime Faria who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jaime Faria is the pick to win this match.
Jaime Faria -> 1.158
Vadym Ursu -> 4.85

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Prediction and head to head Jaime Faria vs. Vadym Ursu

This will be the 2^nd time that Jaime Faria and Vadym Ursu square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Faria (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Faria won 6-3 6-4 in the 2^nd round in the Oeiras 1 Challenger back in January 2024.

Jaime Faria

Ranked no. 169, Faria reached the quarter after defeating Zsombor Piros 6-1 6-2 and Joao Domingues 0-6 6-3 6-4.

In the 2^nd round against Domingues, The Portuguese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (0-6 6-3 6-4).During the match, Faria scored less points (3) than Domingues. In fact, the world no. 169 won 75 points vs Domingues’s. That means that Faria was more focused during the important points. Faria was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Regarding the service games, Faria scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 9 double faults. Jaime Faria lost the serve 5 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Faria put 49% of his first serves in, winning 67% (28/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (20/43) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Domingues 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Portuguese has dropped 1 set in this competition to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Faria has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 64% of his matches (145-81). 22-2 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Faria has a compiled82-38 record in the last 5 years on hard.

His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Oeiras 4 Challenger where he overcame Elias Ymer in the final 3-6 7-6(3) 6-4.

Jaime has a compiled 41-15 win-loss record in 2024, 22-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Porto Challenger

Vadym Ursu

Ranked no. 338, Vadym reached the quarter after beating Tiago Pereira 6-3 6-1, Francisco Rocha 6-1 6-4 and Gastao Elias 6-2 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Ursu had a good straight sets win against Elias (6-2 6-3). During the match Ursu scored 69 points vs Elias’s 50. Vadym was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Ursu wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Vadym Ursu lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ursu put 69% of his first serves in, winning 63% (27/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the 2nd serve. The Ukrainian broke Elias 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vadym 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 59% of the points he played.

Ursu’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.

Ursu has an overall 28-19 win-loss record in 2024, 25-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Porto Challenger

Ursu has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Faria	Ursu
Match played	2	3
Tot Set	5	6
Tot Games	40	50
Pts	137-116	126-89
Total Points	253	215
Winners	50	51
%Winners	36%	40%

Faria played 2 matches while Ursu competed in 3 matches. Ursu started his run from the qualifications while Faria had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Jaime Faria surrendered 1 set while Vadym Ursu hasn’t lost a set so far. Faria has played 1 set(s) less than Ursu (5 vs 6). Therefore, Faria played 10 games less than Ursu. Jaime scored 50 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Ursu bagged 51 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Faria	Ursu
Aces	7	1
Avg per match	3.5	0.3
1st in	70/136	76/113
%1st in	51%	67%
1st pts	50/70	51/76
%1st pts	71%	67%
2nd pts	35/66	19/37
%2nd pts	53%	51%

Faria bagged 7 aces (3.5 per match). Ursu made 1 ace (0.3 per match). Faria won 71% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Ursu won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Faria	Ursu
Won	8	10
Converted	8/14	10/16
% Converted	57%	63%
Conceded	12	11
Saved	7	9
% Saved	58%	82%
Times Broken	5	2

Faria broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Portuguese lost his serve 5 times and he saved 58% of the break points that he conceded. Ursu broke his opponents 10 times with a 63% conversion rate. Ursu conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.

Faria
	R1 Piros	R2 Domingues	Total
Score	6-1 6-2	0-6 6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	15	25	40
pts	62-38	75-78	137-116
Total points	100	153	253
Winners	22	28	50
%Winners	35%	37%	36%
SERVE
Aces	6	1	7
Double Faults	2	9	11
1st in	28/51	42/85	70/136
% 1st in	55%	49%	51%
1st pts	22/28	28/42	50/70
% 1st pts	79%	67%	71%
2nd pts	15/23	20/43	35/66
% 2nd pts	65%	47%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4	8
Converted	4/8	4/6	8/14
Converted %	50%	67%	57%
Conceded	4	8	12
Saved	4/4	3/8	7
Saved %	100%	38%	69%
Times Broken	0	5	5

Ursu
	Q1 Pereira	Q3 de Schepper	R1 Rocha	R2 Elias	Total
Score	6-3 6-1	6-3 6-1	6-1 6-4	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	16	16	17	17	66
pts	57-39	–	–	69-50	126-89
Total points	96	0	0	119	215
Winners	24			27	51
%Winners	42%	0%	0%	39%	40%
SERVE
Aces	1	0	0	0	1
Double Faults	2			2	4
1st in	33/51	/	/	43/62	76/113
% 1st in	65%	0%	0%	69%	67%
1st pts	24/33	/	/	27/43	51/76
% 1st pts	73%	0%	0%	63%	67%
2nd pts	8/18	/	/	11/19	19/37
% 2nd pts	44%	0%	0%	58%	51%
Breaks
Won	5			5	10
Converted	5/8	/	/	5/8	10/16
Converted %	63%	0%	0%	63%	63%
Conceded	5			6	11
Saved	4/5	0/	0/	5/6	9
Saved %	80%	–	–	83%	82%
Times Broken	1			1	2

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