Pablo Carreno-Busta and Max Alcala Gurri will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Montemar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on IVAN NAVARRO COURT. 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 Pablo Carreno-Busta who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pablo Carreno-Busta is the pick to win this match.
Pablo Carreno-Busta -> 1.21
Max Alcala Gurri -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Max Alcala Gurri
There is no head to head record between Pablo Carreno-Busta and Max Alcala Gurri since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Pablo Carreno-Busta
9 - 11win/loss
196
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LWLLLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-12 | 7-6 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-25 | 19-8 | 11-9 | 5-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-18 | 14-8 | 17-4 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-12 | 9-5 | 4-2 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 199, the Spaniard will start his run in the Montemar Challenger after he played his last match in Vienna where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Seyboth in the qualifications on the 19th of October.
The Spaniard has an overall 9-11 win-loss record in 2024, 1-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Carreno-Busta’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Salem.
Talking about his overall career, Pablo has an overall 570-326 record. He has a positive 341-170 record on clay.
Previously in the Montemar Challenger
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Max Alcala Gurri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-29 | 0-0 | 44-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-32 | 1-2 | 42-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-25 | 0-3 | 38-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-24 | 4-4 | 38-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-8 | 0-2 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 459, Alcala got to the 1st round after beating Michiel De Krom 6-4 7-5 and Ivan Gakhov 6-4 2-6 6-0.
In the qualifications, Max defeated Gakhov (6-4 2-6 6-0). During the match Alcala scored 78 points vs Gakhov’s 72. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Alcala was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Max Alcala Gurri lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Alcala put 70% of his first serves in, winning 63% (34/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the 2nd serve. Alcala broke Gakhov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Max started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Max’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Rabat and M15 Valencia.
Max has an aggregate 43-26 win-loss record in 2024, 43-26 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Nick HardtHardt – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-3 2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (1-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Vilius GaubasGaubas (1-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Fabio FogniniFognini – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Carlos TabernerTaberner (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon – Miguel DamasDamas (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
