Carlos Taberner and Adrian Andreev will square off in the final of the Porto 2 Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Taberner who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Carlos Taberner is the pick to win this match.
Carlos Taberner -> 1.59
Adrian Andreev -> 2.26

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Prediction and head to head Carlos Taberner vs. Adrian Andreev

This will be the 2^nd time that Carlos Taberner and Adrian Andreev fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Andreev (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Andreev won 7-5 6-3

in the qualifications in the Tenerife 2 Challenger back in February 2024.

Carlos Taberner

Ranked no. 234, Carlos reached the final after beating Franco Agamenone 7-5 6-4, Moez Echargui 6-3 6-3, Dino Prizmic 6-3 1-6 6-3 and Santiago Rodriguez Taverna 5-7 6-0 6-0.

In the semifinal against Rodriguez Taverna, Carlos recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-0 6-0). During the match, Taberner scored 94 points vs Rodriguez Taverna’s 69. The Spaniard was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Taberner bagged 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Carlos Taberner lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Taberner put 61% of his first serves in, winning 58% (25/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the 2nd serve. Taberner broke Rodriguez Taverna 9 times after converting 53% of his break points (9/17).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Carlos has surrendered 2 set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.

Taberner has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (398-243). 40-24 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Taberner has an aggregate 355-193 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Todi Challenger where he overcame Santiago Rodriguez Taverna in the final 6-4 6-3.

Carlos has a compiled 41-27 win-loss record in 2024, 40-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Porto 2 Challenger

Carlos has never competed in this tournament before.

Adrian Andreev

Ranked no. 261, Andreev got to the final after defeating David Jorda Sanchis 6-4 6-4, Mate Valkusz 6-4 6-2, Daniel Cukierman 7-6(7) 6-4 and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-4 6-1.

In the semifinal, Adrian had a good straight sets win against Sanchez-Izquierdo (6-4 6-1). During the match Andreev scored 59 points vs Sanchez-Izquierdo’s 44. Adrian was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about serving, Andreev couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Adrian Andreev lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Andreev put 68% of his first serves in, winning 56% (19/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the 2nd serve. The Bulgarian broke Sanchez-Izquierdo 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

Andreev’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Zadar Challenger.

Andreev has a composed 31-22 win-loss record in 2024, 21-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Taberner	Andreev
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	10	8
Tot Games	89	78
Pts	329-271	261-217
Total Points	600	478
Winners	118	102
%Winners	36%	39%

Both Taberner and Andreev played 4 matches. At the moment, Carlos Taberner surrendered 2 sets while Adrian Andreev hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Taberner has played 2 sets more than Andreev (10 vs 8). Therefore, Taberner played 11 games more than Andreev. Taberner scored 118 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Andreev managed to score 102 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Taberner	Andreev
Aces	3	4
Avg per match	0.8	1
1st in	175/275	151/226
%1st in	64%	67%
1st pts	118/175	102/151
%1st pts	67%	68%
2nd pts	53/100	43/75
%2nd pts	53%	57%

Taberner managed to score 3 aces (0.8 per match). Andreev managed to score 4 aces (1 per match). Taberner won 67% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Andreev won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Taberner	Andreev
Won	21	17
Converted	21/51	17/32
% Converted	41%	53%
Conceded	29	18
Saved	19	11
% Saved	66%	61%
Times Broken	10	7

The Spaniard broke his opponents 21 times with a 41% conversion rate. Taberner conceded his serve 10 times and he saved 66% of the break points that he conceded. Andreev broke his opponents 17 times with a 53% conversion rate. Andreev conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 61% of the break points that he conceded.

Taberner
	R1 Agamenone	R2 Echargui	1/4 Prizmic	1/2 Rodriguez	Total
Score	7-5 6-4	6-3 6-3	6-3 1-6 6-3	5-7 6-0 6-0
Tot Set	2	2	3	3	10
Tot Games	22	18	25	24	89
pts	73-61	75-57	87-84	94-69	329-271
Total points	134	132	171	163	600
Winners	29	26	38	25	118
%Winners	40%	35%	44%	27%	36%
SERVE
Aces	0	0	1	2	3
Double Faults	2	1	4	6	13
1st in	32/55	40/62	60/87	43/71	175/275
% 1st in	58%	65%	69%	61%	64%
1st pts	29/32	26/40	38/60	25/43	118/175
% 1st pts	91%	65%	63%	58%	67%
2nd pts	12/23	15/22	10/27	16/28	53/100
% 2nd pts	52%	68%	37%	57%	53%
Breaks
Won	3	4	5	9	21
Converted	3/13	4/10	5/11	9/17	21/51
Converted %	23%	40%	45%	53%	41%
Conceded	1	4	13	11	29
Saved	0/1	3/4	9/13	7/11	19
Saved %	0%	75%	69%	64%	52%
Times Broken	1	1	4	4	10

Andreev
	R1 Jorda Sanchis	R2 Valkusz	1/4 Cukierman	1/2 Sanchez-Izquierdo	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	6-4 6-2	7-67 6-4	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	20	18	23	17	78
pts	64-57	56-41	82-75	59-44	261-217
Total points	121	97	157	103	478
Winners	27	25	31	19	102
%Winners	42%	45%	38%	32%	39%
SERVE
Aces	2	1	1	0	4
Double Faults	2	0	0	0	2
1st in	36/59	33/46	48/71	34/50	151/226
% 1st in	61%	72%	68%	68%	67%
1st pts	27/36	25/33	31/48	19/34	102/151
% 1st pts	75%	76%	65%	56%	68%
2nd pts	10/23	8/13	12/23	13/16	43/75
% 2nd pts	43%	62%	52%	81%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	4	4	5	17
Converted	4/8	4/5	4/9	5/10	17/32
Converted %	50%	80%	44%	50%	53%
Conceded	4	2	5	7	18
Saved	2/4	1/2	2/5	6/7	11
Saved %	50%	50%	40%	86%	57%
Times Broken	2	1	3	1	7

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