Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Mateus Alves will face off in the 2nd round of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on CANCHA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mateus Alves who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mateus Alves is the pick to win this match.
Mateus Alves -> 1.82
Santiago Rodriguez Taverna -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head Santiago Rodriguez Taverna vs. Mateus Alves

This will be the 4th time that Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Mateus Alves square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Rodriguez Taverna (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Alves won 7-5 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Cali Challenger back in 2024.

Santiago Rodriguez Taverna

Santiago Rodriguez Taverna

1 - 0win/loss

Clay
1-0
Rank
233
High
157
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 50-39 4-4 46-34 0-0 0-1 0-0
2024 32-35 4-5 28-29 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 41-35 7-7 34-27 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 36-27 0-2 35-24 0-0 1-1 0-0
2021 67-26 40-16 26-9 1-1 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 280, Santiago got to the 2nd round after beating Lautaro Midon 1-6 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round against Midon, Rodriguez Taverna recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-4 6-4).During the match, Rodriguez Taverna scored less points (8) than Midon. In fact, the world no. 280 won 91 points vs Midon’s. That means that Rodriguez Taverna was more focused during the important points. Rodriguez Taverna was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Regarding the service games, Rodriguez Taverna was unable to score even 1 ace and he committed only 2 double faults. Santiago Rodriguez Taverna lost the serve 5 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Rodriguez Taverna put 69% of his first serves in, winning 54% (39/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (15/32) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Midon 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Rodriguez Taverna has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (290-207). 1-0 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Rodriguez Taverna has a composed 218-157 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Rodriguez Taverna has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger

Buenos Aires Challenger
Rodriguez Taverna's Record

Mateus Alves

Mateus Alves

1 - 0win/loss

Clay
1-0
Rank
458
High
271
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 28-28 1-4 27-24 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 46-31 3-5 43-26 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 30-28 4-7 26-21 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 22-15 5-1 17-14 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 32-33 21-20 11-13 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 296, Mateus reached the 2nd round after defeating Facundo Mena 6-7(2) 6-2 7-6(5).

In the 1st round against Mena, Alves recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 6-2 7-65). During the match Alves scored 122 points vs Mena’s 108. The Brazilian was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

About the serving games, Alves struck 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Mateus Alves lost the serve twice and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Alves put 61% of his first serves in, winning 70% (47/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (26/43) on the 2nd serve. Alves broke Mena 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Mateus has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

Buenos Aires Challenger
Alves's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

S.Fa Taverna
M.Alves (2001)
2h:37
2h:37
Time on court​
2h:55
2h:55
!
2h:37
2h:37
Last match​
!
2h:55
2h:55
1
1
Match played
1
1
27
27
Games Played​
34
34
3
3
Set played​​
3
3
91
91
Total points​
122
122
91
91
Avg point​
122
122
39
39
Winners
47
47
39
39
Avg Winners​
47
47
43%
43%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
0
0
Aces
10
10
0
0
Avg Aces
10
10
2
2
Double Faults
3
3
2
2
Avg Double Faults
3
3
39/72
39/72
1st won total​
47/67
47/67
54%
54%
1st won %
70%
70%
15/32
15/32
2nd won total​
26/43
26/43
47%
47%
2nd won %
60%
60%
-- Break Points --
5/10
5/10
BP won
4/9
4/9
5/10
5/10
Avg BP won
4/9
4/9
50%
50%
Won
44%
44%
15
15
Conceded
12
12
15
15
Avg Conceded
12
12
5
5
Broken
2
2
!
5
5
Avg Broken
2
2
10
10
Saved
10
10
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Rodriguez Taverna Alves
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 27 34
Pts 91-99 122-108
Total Points 190 230
Winners 39 47
%Winners 43% 39%

Both Rodriguez Taverna and Alves played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Santiago Rodriguez Taverna surrendered 1 set, while Mateus Alves dropped 1 set. Talking about their workload, Rodriguez Taverna and Alves have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Rodriguez Taverna played 7 games less than Alves. Rodriguez Taverna scored 39 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Mateus blasted 47 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Rodriguez Taverna Alves
Aces 0 10
Avg per match 0 10
1st in 72/104 67/110
%1st in 69% 61%
1st pts 39/72 47/67
%1st pts 54% 70%
2nd pts 15/32 26/43
%2nd pts 47% 60%

Rodriguez Taverna didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Alves managed to score 10 aces . Rodriguez Taverna won 54% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Alves won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Rodriguez Taverna Alves
Won 5 4
Converted 5/10 4/9
% Converted 50% 44%
Conceded 15 12
Saved 10 10
% Saved 67% 83%
Times Broken 5 2

Rodriguez Taverna broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Mateus broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Alves conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Rodriguez Taverna
R1
Midon 		Total
Score 1-6 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 27 27
pts 91-99 91-99
Total points 190 190
Winners 39 39
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 72/104 72/104
% 1st in 69% 69%
1st pts 39/72 39/72
% 1st pts 54% 54%
2nd pts 15/32 15/32
% 2nd pts 47% 47%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/10 5/10
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 15 15
Saved 10/15 10
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 5 5
Alves
R1
Mena		 Total
Score 6-72 6-2 7-65
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 34 34
pts 122-108 122-108
Total points 230 230
Winners 47 47
%Winners 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 10 10
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 67/110 67/110
% 1st in 61% 61%
1st pts 47/67 47/67
% 1st pts 70% 70%
2nd pts 26/43 26/43
% 2nd pts 60% 60%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/9 4/9
Converted % 44% 44%
Conceded 12 12
Saved 10/12 10
Saved % 83% 83%
Times Broken 2 2

Tennis Scores in Buenos Aires Challenger

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Alves (2001)

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