Nuno Borges and Pedro Martinez Portero will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the ATP1000 Master in Monte-Carlo for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 9. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.6
Pedro Martinez Portero -> 2.34

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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Pedro Martinez Portero

This will be the 3^rd time that Nuno Borges and Pedro Martinez Portero clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Borges (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they played, Borges won 6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(8) in the 1^st round in Rome back in 2024.

Highlights Nuno Borges vs Pedro Martinez Portero – Rome 08-May-2024

Nuno Borges

Ranked no. 43, the Portuguese got to the 2^nd round after beating Holger Rune 6-2 3-0 ret..

In the 1^st round against Rune, Borges had a free pass after Rune retired on a 6-2 3-0 . scoreline.

Borges has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 68% of his matches (288-138). 3-2 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Borges has an overall 121-54 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Nuno’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Auckland and the Phoenix Challenger.

The Portuguese has an overall 15-11 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters

Nuno has never competed in this tournament before.

Pedro Martinez Portero

Ranked no. 51, Martinez Portero got to the 2^nd round after defeating Lorenzo Sonego 6-4 1-6 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Martinez Portero defeated Sonego (6-4 1-6 6-2). During the match Martinez Portero scored 77 points vs Sonego’s 76. Pedro was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Martinez Portero was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Pedro Martinez Portero lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Martinez Portero put 77% of his first serves in, winning 71% (36/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Martinez Portero broke Sonego 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).

Pedro’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Buenos Aires.

Pedro has a composed 9-11 win-loss record in 2025, 4-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Borges	Martinez Portero
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	11	25
Pts	42-25	77-76
Total Points	67	153
Winners	22	36
%Winners	52%	47%

Both Borges and Martinez Portero played 1 match. At the moment, Pedro Martinez Portero surrendered 1 set while Nuno Borges hasn’t dropped a set so far. Talking about their workload, Borges and Martinez Portero have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Borges played 14 games less than Martinez Portero. Nuno scored 22 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Pedro made 36 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Borges	Martinez Portero
Aces	6	0
Avg per match	6	0
1st in	27/37	51/66
%1st in	73%	77%
1st pts	22/27	36/51
%1st pts	81%	71%
2nd pts	4/10	7/15
%2nd pts	40%	47%

Borges recorded 6 aces . Martinez Portero didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Borges won 81% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Martinez Portero won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Borges	Martinez Portero
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/11
% Converted	75%	27%
Conceded	2	3
Saved	2	1
% Saved	100%	33%
Times Broken	0	2

The Portuguese broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Borges quite strong on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. Martinez Portero broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Borges
	R1 Rune	Total
Score	6-2 3-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	11	11
pts	42-25	42-25
Total points	67	67
Winners	22	22
%Winners	52%	52%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	27/37	27/37
% 1st in	73%	73%
1st pts	22/27	22/27
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	4/10	4/10
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Martinez Portero
	R1 Sonego	Total
Score	6-4 1-6 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	25	25
pts	77-76	77-76
Total points	153	153
Winners	36	36
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	51/66	51/66
% 1st in	77%	77%
1st pts	36/51	36/51
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	7/15	7/15
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/11	3/11
Converted %	27%	27%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1/3	1
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	2	2

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