Bruno Kuzuhara and Luis Carlos Alvarez will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:30 pm on CANCHA 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bruno Kuzuhara who should win in 2 sets.
Bruno Kuzuhara -> 1.34
Luis Carlos Alvarez -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Bruno Kuzuhara vs. Luis Carlos Alvarez
There is no head to head record between Bruno Kuzuhara and Luis Carlos Alvarez since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Bruno Kuzuhara
19 - 17win/loss
535
394
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-33 | 9-8 | 31-23 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-32 | 12-16 | 15-11 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-30 | 13-6 | 28-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-23 | 8-13 | 20-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-13 | 6-6 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 580, the American got to the qualifications after beating Lucas Trigo 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Trigo (6-1 6-0). During the match, Kuzuhara scored 53 points vs Trigo’s 19. Bruno was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kuzuhara scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Bruno Kuzuhara was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (19/23) of his 1st serve and 86% (6/7) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bruno broke Trigo 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Kuzuhara has a winning match record in the last 5 years having won 52% of his matches (125-114). 19-13 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Kuzuhara has a compiled84-63 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
Bruno’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Sunrise.
Bruno has a compiled 19-16 win-loss record in 2025, 19-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Challenger
Bruno has never competed in this tournament before.
Luis Carlos Alvarez
4 - 2win/loss
548
533
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-10 | 9-6 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-10 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 7-8 | 6-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 859, Luis reached the qualifications after beating Igor Gimenez 6-1 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, The Mexican had a good straight sets win against Gimenez (6-1 7-64). During the match Carlos scored 76 points vs Gimenez’s 59. The Mexican was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Carlos struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Luis Carlos Alvarez was very effective on serve to win 71% (32/45) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Carlos broke Gimenez 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
The Mexican has an aggregate 3-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kuzuhara | Carlos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 20 |
| Pts | 53-19 | 76-59 |
| Total Points | 72 | 135 |
| Winners | 19 | 32 |
| %Winners | 36% | 42% |
Both Kuzuhara and Carlos played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kuzuhara and Carlos have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kuzuhara played 7 games less than Carlos. The American scored 19 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Mexican bagged 32 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kuzuhara | Carlos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 23/30 | 45/66 |
| %1st in | 77% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 32/45 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 6/7 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 86% | 62% |
Kuzuhara bagged 1 ace . Carlos also recorded 2 aces . Kuzuhara won 83% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 86% of the points. On the other side, Carlos won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kuzuhara | Carlos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 3/10 |
| % Converted | 60% | 30% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Bruno broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. The American pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Luis broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Carlos conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kuzuhara | |||
| Q1 Trigo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 53-19 | 53-19 | |
| Total points | 72 | 72 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st in | 77% | 77% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 19/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| % 2nd pts | 86% | 86% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Carlos | |||
| Q1 Gimenez | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 76-59 | 76-59 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/66 | 45/66 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 32/45 | 32/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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