Francisco Comesana and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida will play each other in the 1st round of the Villa Maria Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Comesana who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francisco Comesana is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Comesana -> 1.22
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida -> 3.92
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Comesana vs. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
This will be the 5th time that Francisco Comesana and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Comesana and Pucinelli De Almeida (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Comesana won 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in the Vicenza Challenger back in 2023.
Francisco Comesana
32 - 22win/loss
104
87
WWWWWLWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-22 | 3-4 | 27-16 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-25 | 2-2 | 57-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-18 | 2-2 | 28-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-15 | 0-0 | 49-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-10 | 7-6 | 5-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 104, the Argentine will start his run in the Villa Maria Challenger after he won the title in the Buenos Aires Challenger after beating 1-6 7-6(7) 6-4 Coria in the final.
Francisco has an overall 32-22 win-loss record in 2024, 27-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he beat Ugo Blanchet in the final 6-4 3-6 7-5 and the Buenos Aires Challenger where he beat Federico Coria in the final 1-6 7-6(7) 6-4.
Francisco won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Francisco has an overall 258-141 record. He has a positive 242-123 record on clay.
Previously in the Villa Maria Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-21 | 0-0 | 26-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-25 | 1-3 | 19-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 1-3 | 27-24 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 13-7 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 374, Pucinelli De Almeida got to the 1st round after beating Juan Manuel La Serna 6-3 6-2 and Alex Barrena 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Matheus had a good straight sets win against Barrena (6-3 6-3). During the match Pucinelli De Almeida scored 73 points vs Barrena’s 52. The Brazilian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Pucinelli De Almeida scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brazilian broke Barrena 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Brazilian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Matheus’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Piracicaba Challenger and M25 Maribor.
The Brazilian has a composed 26-21 win-loss record in 2024, 26-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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WWLLWLLWWL Tennis Scores in Villa Maria Challenger
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (7-5 6-73 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Murkel Alejandro Dellien VelascoAlejandro Dellien Velasco (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza (3-6 7-5 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adolfo Daniel VallejoDaniel Vallejo – Gonzalo BuenoBueno (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Hady HabibHabib (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hugo DellienDellien – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas KickerKicker – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Andrea CollariniCollarini (8-2) – H2H and prediction
- Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Jesper De JongDe Jong (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Francisco ComesanaComesana (2-2) – H2H and prediction
