Nuno Borges and Jacob Fearnley will face off in the 2nd round of the Phoenix Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on Center Court. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.68
Jacob Fearnley -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Jacob Fearnley
There is no head to head record between Nuno Borges and Jacob Fearnley since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-16 | 11-8 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-26 | 20-12 | 13-7 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-26 | 20-11 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-26 | 7-5 | 28-13 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-21 | 6-4 | 46-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 36, the Portuguese will start his run in the Phoenix Challenger after he played his last match in Indian Wells where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Dimitrov in the 2nd round on the 8th of March.
Borges has a compiled 11-8 win-loss record in 2025, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Borges’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Auckland.
Talking about his overall career, The Portuguese has an overall 294-141 record. He has a positive 145-58 record on hard.
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament twice in 2023 and 2024. See his history.
Jacob Fearnley
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-12 | 9-5 | 8-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-9 | 10-2 | 0-0 | 26-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 16-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 81, Fearnley got to the 2nd round after beating James Duckworth 7-6(3) 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (7-63 6-3). During the match Fearnley scored 80 points vs Duckworth’s 65. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Fearnley struck 8 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jacob Fearnley was quite efficient on serve to win 85% (41/48) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jacob broke Duckworth once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Jacob’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger.
Jacob has a composed 9-5 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Fearnley has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWWWWL Tennis Scores in Phoenix Challenger
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Brandon HoltHolt (7-60 7-63) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Hugo GastonGaston – Adam WaltonWalton (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – James DuckworthDuckworth (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Li TuTu (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (4-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-62 6-1) – See score progression
- Colton SmithSmith – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (10-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Corentin MoutetMoutet (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
