Billy Harris and Joao Fonseca will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 3^rd 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 3^rd 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 1^st round in the Cary Challenger back in August 2024.

Billy Harris

Ranked no. 112, Harris got to the 2^nd round after beating Alexis Gautier 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 154 (career-high), Fonseca got to the 2^nd round after defeating Kamil Majchrzak 6-4 7-5.

In the 1^st 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)

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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

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• Mikhail KukushkinMikhail – Gregoire BarrereGregoire (6-1 6-3) – See score progression

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