Mateus Alves and Gonzalo Villanueva

will square off in the qualifications of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on CANCHA 7. 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 Mateus Alves who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mateus Alves is the pick to win this match.
Mateus Alves -> 1.74
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 2

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Prediction and head to head Mateus Alves vs. Gonzalo Villanueva

This will be the 2^nd time that Mateus Alves and Gonzalo Villanueva fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Alves (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Alves won 6-3 7-5 in the 1^st round in the Cali Challenger back in September 2024.

Mateus Alves

Ranked no. 293 (career-high), the Brazilian reached the qualifications after defeating Wilson Leite 6-2 4-6 6-0.

In the qualifications, Alves defeated Leite (6-2 4-6 6-0). During the match, Alves scored 90 points vs Leite’s 64. Mateus was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Alves blasted 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Mateus Alves was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Mateus broke Leite 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).

Alves has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 59% of his matches (201-140). 35-20 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Alves has an overall116-93 record in the last 7 years on clay.

Mateus’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Maceio,M25 Marburg and the Bogota Challenger.

Alves has a compiled 38-21 win-loss record in 2024, 35-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger

Mateus has never competed in this tournament before.

Gonzalo Villanueva

Ranked no. 411, Villanueva got to the qualifications after beating Alex Barrena 2-6 6-0 7-6(7).

In the qualifications against Barrena, Gonzalo recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-0 7-6⁷). During the match Villanueva scored 90 points vs Barrena’s 84. Gonzalo was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Villanueva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Gonzalo Villanueva lost the serve 5 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Villanueva put 63% of his first serves in, winning 60% (36/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (16/36) on the 2nd serve. Villanueva broke Barrena 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).

The Argentine’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Punta del Este and the Santa Fe Challenger.

The Argentine has an overall 30-26 win-loss record in 2024, 30-26 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Alves	Villanueva
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	27
Pts	90-64	90-84
Total Points	154	174
Winners	31	36
%Winners	34%	40%

Both Alves and Villanueva played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Mateus Alves lost 1 set, while Gonzalo Villanueva dropped 1 set. Talking about their workload, Alves and Villanueva have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Alves played 3 games less than Villanueva. The Brazilian scored 31 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Gonzalo managed to score 36 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Alves	Villanueva
Aces	7	1
Avg per match	7	1
1st in	43/68	60/96
%1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	31/43	36/60
%1st pts	72%	60%
2nd pts	16/25	16/36
%2nd pts	64%	44%

Alves managed to score 7 aces . Villanueva made 1 ace . Alves won 72% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Villanueva won 60% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Alves	Villanueva
Won	6	6
Converted	6/11	6/8
% Converted	55%	75%
Conceded	6	9
Saved	4	4
% Saved	67%	44%
Times Broken	2	5

Alves broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. The Brazilian conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Argentine broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Gonzalo conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded.

Alves
	Q1 Leite	Total
Score	6-2 4-6 6-0
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	90-64	90-64
Total points	154	154
Winners	31	31
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	43/68	43/68
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	31/43	31/43
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	16/25	16/25
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/11	6/11
Converted %	55%	55%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Villanueva
	Q1 Barrena	Total
Score	2-6 6-0 7-67
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	27	27
pts	90-84	90-84
Total points	174	174
Winners	36	36
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	60/96	60/96
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	36/60	36/60
% 1st pts	60%	60%
2nd pts	16/36	16/36
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	4/9	4
Saved %	44%	44%
Times Broken	5	5

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