Billy Harris and Joao Fonseca will play each other in the 2nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Billy Harris who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Billy Harris is the pick to win this match.
Billy Harris -> 1.74
Joao Fonseca -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Billy Harris vs. Joao Fonseca
This will be the 3rd time that Billy Harris and Joao Fonseca clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Harris (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Harris won 6-2 1-6 6-3 in the 1st round in the Cary Challenger back in August 2024.
Billy Harris
39 - 33win/loss
126
101
LLLWLWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-36 | 12-13 | 6-8 | 7-9 | 14-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-34 | 27-15 | 7-8 | 14-5 | 11-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-34 | 23-13 | 10-9 | 9-8 | 2-3 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 51-20 | 13-5 | 38-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-13 | 19-10 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 112, Harris got to the 2nd round after beating Alexis Gautier 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Harris had a good straight sets win against Gautier (6-2 6-3). During the match, Harris scored 55 points vs Gautier’s 42. Harris was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Harris scored 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Billy Harris was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (29/39) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Harris broke Gautier 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Harris has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (383-237). 7-6 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Harris has an aggregate 47-31 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Billy’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Surbiton Challenger,the Nottingham 2 Challenger and Eastbourne.
Billy has a compiled 39-33 win-loss record in 2024, 7-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Joao Fonseca
27 - 19win/loss
144
144
LWWWLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-23 | 8-3 | 14-11 | 8-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 154 (career-high), Fonseca got to the 2nd round after defeating Kamil Majchrzak 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round, Fonseca had a good straight sets win against Majchrzak (6-4 7-5). During the match Fonseca scored 73 points vs Majchrzak’s 64. The Brazilian was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Fonseca bagged 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Joao Fonseca was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (32/45) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Fonseca broke Majchrzak twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Lexington Challenger where he beat Li Tu in the final 6-1 6-4.
Fonseca has an aggregate 27-19 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Harris | Fonseca |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 |
| Pts | 55-42 | 73-64 |
| Total Points | 97 | 137 |
| Winners | 29 | 32 |
| %Winners | 53% | 44% |
Both Harris and Fonseca played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Harris and Fonseca have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Harris played 5 games less than Fonseca. The Brit scored 29 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Joao made 32 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Harris | Fonseca |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 9 |
| 1st in | 39/52 | 45/66 |
| %1st in | 75% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 32/45 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 15/21 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 71% |
Harris fired 3 aces . Fonseca recorded 9 aces . Harris won 74% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Fonseca won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Harris | Fonseca |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 2/10 |
| % Converted | 60% | 20% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Billy broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Brit was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Brazilian broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. The Brazilian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Harris | |||
| R1 Gautier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 55-42 | 55-42 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 39/52 | 39/52 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 29/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Fonseca | |||
| R1 Majchrzak |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 73-64 | 73-64 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/66 | 45/66 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 32/45 | 32/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/21 | 15/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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