Goncalo Oliveira and Alexey Zakharov will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Tiburon Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexey Zakharov who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexey Zakharov is the pick to win this match.
Alexey Zakharov -> 1.4
Goncalo Oliveira -> 2.77

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Prediction and head to head Goncalo Oliveira vs. Alexey Zakharov

This will be the 2^nd time that Goncalo Oliveira and Alexey Zakharov fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zakharov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Zakharov won 7-6(1) 3-2 ret. in the semifinal in M25 Hong Kong back in August 2024.

Goncalo Oliveira

Ranked no. 281, Goncalo will start his run in the Tiburon Challenger after he played his last match in the Nonthaburi 4 Challenger where he lost 6-3 2-0 ret. to Diallo in the 2^nd round on the 26^th of September.

Oliveira has an overall 33-25 win-loss record in 2024, 19-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Oliveira’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Brazzaville and M25 Sapporo.

Talking about his overall career, Oliveira has an overall 514-415 record. He has a positive 135-110 record on hard.

Previously in the Tiburon Challenger

Goncalo has never competed in this tournament before.

Alexey Zakharov

Ranked no. 316, the Russian got to the 1^st round after beating James Tracy 6-3 3-6 6-4 and Trey Hilderbrand 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Zakharov had a good straight sets win against Hilderbrand (6-3 6-4). During the match Zakharov scored 66 points vs Hilderbrand’s 50. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Zakharov scored 5 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alexey Zakharov was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexey broke Hilderbrand twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alexey started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Alexey’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Amersfoort Challenger and M25 Hong Kong.

Zakharov has a composed 37-21 win-loss record in 2024, 22-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Tiburon Challenger

• Denis KudlaKudla – Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck (7-6⁴ 6-7³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jack Pinnington JonesPinnington Jones – Aidan MayoMayo (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Remy BertolaBertola – Kaylan BigunBigun (7-6⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karue SellSell – Antoine Cornut-ChauvincCornut-Chauvinc (6-4 7-6⁷) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Colton SmithSmith – Patrick KypsonKypson (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Christian LangmoLangmo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Remy BertolaBertola – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andres AndradeAndrade – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Govind NandaNanda – (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Micah BraswellBraswell – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction