Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Goncalo Oliveira will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Brazzaville Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Santiago Rodriguez Taverna who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Santiago Rodriguez Taverna is the pick to win this match.
Santiago Rodriguez Taverna -> 1.81
Goncalo Oliveira -> 1.92

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Prediction and head to head Santiago Rodriguez Taverna vs. Goncalo Oliveira

This will be the 2^nd time that Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Goncalo Oliveira clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Oliveira (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Oliveira won 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in the Santiago Challenger back in 2022.

Santiago Rodriguez Taverna

Ranked no. 230, Santiago got to the semifinal after beating Alec Beckley 6-4 7-5, Daniel Salazar Martinez 6-2 6-4

and Corentin Denolly 6-3 7-6(5).

In the quarter, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Denolly (6-3 7-6⁵). During the match, Rodriguez Taverna scored 75 points vs Denolly’s 62. Santiago was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Rodriguez Taverna made 14 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Santiago Rodriguez Taverna was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 89% (31/35) of his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Santiago broke Denolly once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Argentine hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Rodriguez Taverna has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (288-202). 28-27 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Rodriguez Taverna has a composed217-155 match record in the last 9 years on clay.

The Argentine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Todi Challenger.

The Argentine has a compiled 31-30 win-loss record in 2024, 28-27 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Brazzaville Challenger

The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.

Goncalo Oliveira

Ranked no. 269, Goncalo reached the semifinal after defeating Lawrence Bataljin 6-0 6-1

, Preston Brown 6-2 6-3 and Dev Javia 6-4 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Oliveira had a good straight sets win against Brown (6-2 6-3). During the match Oliveira scored 61 points vs Brown’s 41. Oliveira was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Oliveira blasted 5 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Goncalo Oliveira was very effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Goncalo broke Brown 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Goncalo hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 64% of the points he played.

The Portuguese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Brazzaville and M25 Sapporo.

Oliveira has an aggregate 37-29 win-loss record in 2024, 16-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Rodriguez Taverna	Oliveira
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	6	6
Tot Games	62	49
Pts	215-172	183-116
Total Points	387	299
Winners	87	73
%Winners	40%	40%

Both Rodriguez Taverna and Oliveira played 3 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rodriguez Taverna and Oliveira have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Rodriguez Taverna played 13 games more than Oliveira. Santiago scored 87 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Oliveira blasted 73 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Rodriguez Taverna	Oliveira
Aces	24	14
Avg per match	8	4.7
1st in	107/191	90/138
%1st in	56%	65%
1st pts	87/107	73/90
%1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	49/84	27/48
%2nd pts	58%	56%

Rodriguez Taverna scored 24 aces (8 per match). Oliveira struck 14 aces (4.7 per match). Rodriguez Taverna won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Oliveira won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Rodriguez Taverna	Oliveira
Won	8	13
Converted	8/22	13/29
% Converted	36%	45%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	5	6
% Saved	71%	86%
Times Broken	2	1

Rodriguez Taverna broke his opponents 8 times with a 36% conversion rate. Rodriguez Taverna dropped his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Goncalo broke his opponents 13 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.

Rodriguez Taverna
	R1 Beckley	R2 Salazar Martinez	1/4 Denolly	Total
Score	6-4 7-5	6-2 6-4	6-3 7-65
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	22	18	22	62
pts	73-62	67-48	75-62	215-172
Total points	135	115	137	387
Winners	24	32	31	87
%Winners	33%	48%	41%	40%
SERVE
Aces	6	4	14	24
Double Faults	1	5	2	8
1st in	30/60	42/62	35/69	107/191
% 1st in	50%	68%	51%	56%
1st pts	24/30	32/42	31/35	87/107
% 1st pts	80%	76%	89%	81%
2nd pts	18/30	10/20	21/34	49/84
% 2nd pts	60%	50%	62%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	4	1	8
Converted	3/10	4/7	1/5	8/22
Converted %	30%	57%	20%	36%
Conceded	2	4	1	7
Saved	1/2	3/4	1/1	5
Saved %	50%	75%	100%	75%
Times Broken	1	1	0	2

Oliveira
	R1 Bataljin	R2 Brown	Total
Score	6-0 6-1	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	13	17	30
pts	58-26	61-41	119-67
Total points	84	102	186
Winners	18	22	40
%Winners	31%	36%	34%
SERVE
Aces	3	5	8
Double Faults	2	0	2
1st in	21/33	27/42	48/75
% 1st in	64%	64%	64%
1st pts	18/21	22/27	40/48
% 1st pts	86%	81%	83%
2nd pts	7/12	11/15	18/27
% 2nd pts	58%	73%	67%
Breaks
Won	6	4	10
Converted	6/15	4/10	10/25
Converted %	40%	40%	40%
Conceded	1	2	3
Saved	1/1	2/2	3
Saved %	100%	100%	67%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Tennis Scores in Brazzaville Challenger

• Simone Agostini/Alec BeckleyAgostini/Alec Beckley – Corentin Denolly/Aziz OuakaaDenolly/Aziz Ouakaa (3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

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