Alexandre Muller and Francisco Comesana will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Rio Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 7:30 pm on QUADRA GUGA KUERTEN. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexandre Muller who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexandre Muller is the pick to win this match.
Alexandre Muller -> 1.727
Francisco Comesana -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Alexandre Muller vs. Francisco Comesana
There is no head to head record between Alexandre Muller and Francisco Comesana since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Alexandre Muller
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-29 | 12-12 | 11-10 | 3-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-32 | 11-14 | 20-12 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 60, the French player reached the semifinal after defeating Joao Fonseca 6-1 7-6(4), Tomas Martin Etcheverry 7-5 7-6(5) and Francisco Cerundolo 7-5 6-1.
In the quarter, Alexandre had a good straight sets win against Cerundolo (7-5 6-1). During the match, Muller scored 62 points vs Cerundolo’s 46. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Muller made 2 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Alexandre Muller was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (31/41) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The French player broke Cerundolo 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Muller has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (379-255). 3-2 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Muller has a compiled 220-137 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Hong Kong where he defeated Kei Nishikori in the final 2-6 6-1 6-3.
The French player has a composed 8-3 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rio de Janeiro
Alexandre has never competed in this tournament before.
Francisco Comesana
6 - 6win/loss
67
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LWWLLWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-28 | 9-9 | 18-13 | 3-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-28 | 8-5 | 31-21 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-25 | 2-2 | 57-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-18 | 2-2 | 28-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-15 | 0-0 | 49-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 86, Comesana reached the semifinal after beating Gustavo Heide 7-6(2) 6-7(7) 6-3, Nicolas Jarry 7-6(4) 6-7(1) 7-6(6) and Alexander Zverev 4-6 6-3 6-4.
In the quarter against Zverev, Comesana recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Comesana scored 89 points vs Zverev’s 81. Francisco was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Comesana struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Francisco Comesana was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (40/56) of his 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Francisco broke Zverev 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Francisco has conceded 3 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Argentine has a composed 6-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rio de Janeiro
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Muller | Comesana |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 64 | 103 |
| Pts | 223-174 | 333-318 |
| Total Points | 397 | 651 |
| Winners | 102 | 158 |
| %Winners | 46% | 47% |
Both Muller and Comesana played 3 matches. At the moment, Francisco Comesana dropped 3 sets while Alexandre Muller hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Muller has played 3 set(s) less than Comesana (6 vs 9). Therefore, Muller played 39 games less than Comesana. Alexandre scored 102 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Francisco fired 158 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Muller | Comesana |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 32 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 10.7 |
| 1st in | 132/204 | 202/328 |
| %1st in | 65% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 102/132 | 158/202 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 42/72 | 68/126 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 54% |
Muller blasted 9 aces (3 per match). Comesana fired 32 aces (10.7 per match). Muller won 77% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Comesana won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Muller | Comesana |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 8 |
| Converted | 9/23 | 8/29 |
| % Converted | 39% | 28% |
| Conceded | 13 | 20 |
| Saved | 10 | 14 |
| % Saved | 77% | 70% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 6 |
Alexandre broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. The French player lost his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded. Comesana broke his opponents 8 times with a 28% conversion rate. Comesana conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.
| Muller | |||||
| R1 Fonseca |
R2 Etcheverry |
1/4 Cerundolo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-64 | 7-5 7-65 | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 25 | 19 | 64 | |
| pts | 78-59 | 83-69 | 62-46 | 223-174 | |
| Total points | 137 | 152 | 108 | 397 | |
| Winners | 34 | 37 | 31 | 102 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 45% | 50% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 44/66 | 47/78 | 41/60 | 132/204 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 60% | 68% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 37/47 | 31/41 | 102/132 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 79% | 76% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 17/31 | 10/19 | 42/72 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 55% | 53% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 3/5 | 4/8 | 9/23 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 60% | 50% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 | 4 | 13 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 5/7 | 3/4 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 71% | 75% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Comesana | |||||
| R1 Heide |
R2 Jarry |
1/4 Zverev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-77 6-3 | 7-64 6-71 7-66 | 4-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 39 | 29 | 103 | |
| pts | 131-114 | 113-123 | 89-81 | 333-318 | |
| Total points | 245 | 236 | 170 | 651 | |
| Winners | 57 | 61 | 40 | 158 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 54% | 45% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 16 | 12 | 4 | 32 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 66/106 | 80/128 | 56/94 | 202/328 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 63% | 60% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 57/66 | 61/80 | 40/56 | 158/202 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 76% | 71% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/40 | 26/48 | 21/38 | 68/126 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 54% | 55% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 2/18 | 2/4 | 4/7 | 8/29 | |
| Converted % | 11% | 50% | 57% | 28% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | 6 | 20 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 5/7 | 3/6 | 14 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 71% | 50% | 69% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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