Jaime Faria and Juan Manuel Cerundolo will face off in the qualifications of the Rio Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 5:00 pm on QUADRA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Manuel Cerundolo who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Juan Manuel Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Juan Manuel Cerundolo -> 1.62
Jaime Faria -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Jaime Faria vs. Juan Manuel Cerundolo

This will be the 2^nd time that Jaime Faria and Juan Manuel Cerundolo face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Manuel (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Manuel won 6-1 7-6(1) in the qualifications in Buenos aires back in February 2025.

Jaime Faria

Ranked no. 106 (career-high), Jaime got to the qualifications after beating Mateus Alves 7-5 7-6(4).

In the qualifications, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Alves (7-5 7-6⁴). During the match, Faria scored 85 points vs Alves’s 76. Faria was pretty aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Regarding the service games, Faria scored 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Jaime Faria was extremely effective on serve to win 80% (41/51) of his 1st serve and 59% (22/37) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Portuguese broke Alves once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).

Faria has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (162-96). 1-2 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Faria has a compiled72-44 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.

Jaime has an overall 5-5 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rio de Janeiro

Jaime has never competed in this tournament before.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo

Ranked no. 139, Manuel got to the qualifications after beating Thiago Agustin Tirante 6-1 6-4

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In the qualifications, Juan had a good straight sets win against Agustin Tirante (6-1 6-4). During the match Manuel scored 68 points vs Agustin Tirante’s 48. The Argentine was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Manuel managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Juan Manuel Cerundolo conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Manuel put 67% of his first serves in, winning 86% (31/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Manuel broke Agustin Tirante 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Juan has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Rio de Janeiro

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Faria	Manuel
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	17
Pts	85-76	68-48
Total Points	161	116
Winners	41	31
%Winners	48%	46%

Both Faria and Manuel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Faria and Manuel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Faria played 8 games more than Manuel. Faria scored 41 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine struck 31 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Faria	Manuel
Aces	4	5
Avg per match	4	5
1st in	51/88	36/54
%1st in	58%	67%
1st pts	41/51	31/36
%1st pts	80%	86%
2nd pts	22/37	8/18
%2nd pts	59%	44%

Faria struck 4 aces . Manuel managed to score 5 aces . Faria won 80% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Manuel won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Faria	Manuel
Won	1	3
Converted	1/2	3/7
% Converted	50%	43%
Conceded	5	3
Saved	5	3
% Saved	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Jaime broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. Faria was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points. Juan broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Manuel was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Faria
	Q1 Alves	Total
Score	7-5 7-64
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	25
pts	85-76	85-76
Total points	161	161
Winners	41	41
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	51/88	51/88
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	41/51	41/51
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	22/37	22/37
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	1	1
Converted	1/2	1/2
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	5/5	5
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Manuel
	Q1 Agustin Tirante	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	68-48	68-48
Total points	116	116
Winners	31	31
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	36/54	36/54
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	31/36	31/36
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	8/18	8/18
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/7	3/7
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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