Tomas Barrios Vera and Pedro Sakamoto will face off in the 2nd round of the Sao Paulo Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:00 pm on QUADRA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Barrios Vera who should win in 2 sets.
Tomas Barrios Vera -> 1.36
Pedro Sakamoto -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Pedro Sakamoto
This will be the 4th time that Tomas Barrios Vera and Pedro Sakamoto face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Tomas Barrios Vera won 6-2 6-2 in the semifinal in M25 Lima back in 2020.
Tomas Barrios Vera
33 - 26win/loss
154
93
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-28 | 6-5 | 26-19 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 4-7 | 42-22 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-17 | 3-1 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-27 | 4-6 | 34-20 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 25-13 | 1-1 | 24-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 162, Tomas Barrios Vera reached the 2nd round after defeating Mateus Alves 7-6(6) 4-6 7-6(2).
In the 1st round, Tomas Barrios Vera defeated Alves (7-66 4-6 7-62).During the match, Tomas Barrios Vera scored less points (5) than Alves. In fact, the world no. 162 won 112 points vs Alves’s. That means that Tomas Barrios Vera was more focused during the important points. Marcelo was pretty aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tomas Barrios Vera recorded 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tomas Barrios Vera was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (56/74) of his 1st serve and 64% (29/45) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once.
Tomas Barrios Vera has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (354-208). 2-3 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Tomas Barrios Vera has an aggregate 76-48 record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Amersfoort Challenger where he overcame Alexey Zakharov in the final 6-2 6-1.
Marcelo has a compiled 32-26 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sao Paulo Challenger
Tomas Barrios Vera has never competed in this tournament before.
Pedro Sakamoto
35 - 29win/loss
335
271
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-30 | 7-3 | 28-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-24 | 4-2 | 35-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-24 | 2-3 | 19-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-14 | 2-2 | 14-10 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 316, the Brazilian reached the 2nd round after defeating Pedro Boscardin Dias 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Brazilian had a good straight sets win against Boscardin Dias (6-3 6-4). During the match Sakamoto scored 63 points vs Boscardin Dias’s 46. Sakamoto was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Sakamoto blasted 10 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Pedro Sakamoto was very effective on serve to win 82% (32/39) of his 1st serve and 82% (9/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pedro broke Boscardin Dias twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
The Brazilian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Belem and M25 Sao Paulo.
Sakamoto has a composed 35-28 win-loss record in 2024, 7-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tomas Barrios Vera | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 19 |
| Pts | 112-117 | 63-46 |
| Total Points | 229 | 109 |
| Winners | 56 | 32 |
| %Winners | 50% | 51% |
Both Tomas Barrios Vera and Sakamoto played 1 match. At the moment, Tomas Barrios Vera surrendered 1 set while Pedro Sakamoto hasn’t dropped a set so far. Tomas Barrios Vera has played 1 set more than Sakamoto (3 vs 2). Therefore, Tomas Barrios Vera played 17 games more than Sakamoto. Tomas Barrios Vera scored 56 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, The Brazilian made 32 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tomas Barrios Vera | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 10 |
| 1st in | 74/119 | 39/50 |
| %1st in | 62% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 56/74 | 32/39 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 29/45 | 9/11 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 82% |
Tomas Barrios Vera made 9 aces . Sakamoto scored 10 aces . Tomas Barrios Vera won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Sakamoto won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 82% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tomas Barrios Vera | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 0 | 2 |
| Converted | 0/5 | 2/7 |
| % Converted | 0% | 29% |
| Conceded | 9 | 0 |
| Saved | 8 | 0 |
| % Saved | 89% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Marcelo hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. Tomas Barrios Vera lost his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. The Brazilian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Sakamoto was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Tomas Barrios Vera | |||
| R1 Alves | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 4-6 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 36 | 36 | |
| pts | 112-117 | 112-117 | |
| Total points | 229 | 229 | |
| Winners | 56 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 74/119 | 74/119 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 56/74 | 56/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 29/45 | 29/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/5 | 0/5 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 0% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 8/9 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 89% | 89% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sakamoto | |||
| R1 Boscardin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 63-46 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 39/50 | 39/50 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 32/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/11 | 9/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 82% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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- Gustavo HeideHeide – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-77 6-4 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
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