Gonzalo Villanueva and Thomas Faurel will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Antofagasta Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. 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 Gonzalo Villanueva who should win in 3 sets.
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 1.57
Thomas Faurel -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Gonzalo Villanueva vs. Thomas Faurel
There is no head to head record between Gonzalo Villanueva and Thomas Faurel since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Gonzalo Villanueva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-30 | 0-0 | 40-29 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-34 | 2-2 | 41-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-40 | 5-4 | 39-36 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-33 | 1-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-29 | 5-10 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 351, Gonzalo reached the qualifications after defeating Bastian Malla 4-6 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications against Malla, Gonzalo recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-2). During the match, Villanueva scored 97 points vs Malla’s 86. The Argentine was exceptionally aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Regarding the service games, Villanueva scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Gonzalo Villanueva lost the serve once and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Villanueva put 68% of his first serves in, winning 75% (49/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Malla 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Villanueva has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (351-265). 33-23 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Villanueva has an overall 331-238 record in the last years on clay.
Villanueva’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Coquimbo and M25 Trelew.
Gonzalo has an overall 37-24 win-loss record in 2025, 33-23 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Antofagasta Challenger
Thomas Faurel
43 - 24win/loss
580
572
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-28 | 4-3 | 39-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 5-12 | 0-1 | 4-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 576 (career-high), Faurel reached the qualifications after beating Nicolas Bruna 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Bruna (6-3 6-2). During the match Faurel scored 74 points vs Bruna’s 54. Faurel was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Faurel wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Thomas Faurel was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Thomas broke Bruna 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
The French player best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sofia.
The French player has an overall 43-23 win-loss record in 2025, 39-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Antofagasta Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Villanueva | Faurel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 17 |
| Pts | 97-86 | 74-54 |
| Total Points | 183 | 128 |
| Winners | 49 | 20 |
| %Winners | 51% | 27% |
Both Villanueva and Faurel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Gonzalo Villanueva lost 1 set while Thomas Faurel hasn’t lost a set so far. Villanueva has played 1 set more than Faurel (3 vs 2). Therefore, Villanueva played 11 games more than Faurel. Gonzalo scored 49 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, The French player made 20 winners (27%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Villanueva | Faurel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 65/95 | 25/47 |
| %1st in | 68% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 49/65 | 20/25 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 15/22 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 68% |
Villanueva made 1 ace . Faurel didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Villanueva won 75% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Faurel won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Villanueva | Faurel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 50% | 33% |
| Conceded | 12 | 0 |
| Saved | 11 | 0 |
| % Saved | 92% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Argentine broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Gonzalo lost his serve once and he saved 92% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Faurel was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Villanueva | |||
| Q1 Malla | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 97-86 | 97-86 | |
| Total points | 183 | 183 | |
| Winners | 49 | 49 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 65/95 | 65/95 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 49/65 | 49/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 15/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 11/12 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 92% | 92% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Faurel | |||
| Q1 Bruna | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 74-54 | 74-54 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/47 | 25/47 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 15/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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