Juan Bautista Torres and Gonzalo Villanueva will face off in the 1st round of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Bautista Torres who should win in 2 sets.
Juan Bautista Torres -> 1.4
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 2.77
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Prediction and head to head Juan Bautista Torres vs. Gonzalo Villanueva
This will be the 3rd time that Juan Bautista Torres and Gonzalo Villanueva square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Bautista Torres won 7-6(5) 6-4 in the 1st round in the Sao Paulo Challenger back in 2024.
Juan Bautista Torres
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-29 | 0-0 | 31-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-29 | 1-2 | 44-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-19 | 0-0 | 34-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 1-2 | 33-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-23 | 12-10 | 32-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 281, Bautista Torres will start his run in the Buenos Aires Challenger after he played his last match in the Temuco Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Ugo Carabelli in the 1st round on the 26th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Juan has an overall 168-110 record. He has a positive 154-95 record on clay.
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
Gonzalo Villanueva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45-31 | 0-0 | 41-30 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-34 | 2-2 | 41-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-40 | 5-4 | 39-36 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-33 | 1-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-29 | 5-10 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 427, the Argentine reached the 1st round after defeating Romeo Arcuschin 5-7 6-4 7-5 and Franco Roncadelli 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Villanueva had a good straight sets win against Roncadelli (7-5 6-4). During the match Villanueva scored 94 points vs Roncadelli’s 86. Gonzalo was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Villanueva scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Gonzalo Villanueva lost the serve 4 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Villanueva put 72% of his first serves in, winning 58% (34/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Roncadelli 6 times after converting 35% of his break points (6/17).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gonzalo 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.
Villanueva has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Buenos Aires Challenger
- Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler – Andres AndradeAndrade (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gonzalo BuenoBueno – Ezequiel MonferrerMonferrer (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DebruDebru – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Rodriguez TavernaSantiago – Lautaro MidonLautaro (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mateus De Carvalho CardosoDe Carvalho Cardoso – Facundo MenaMena (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max HoukesHoukes – Mariano KestelboimKestelboim (0-1) – H2H and prediction