Tomas Barrios Vera and Mateus Alves will clash against each other in the quarter of the Cali Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 10:30 am on CANCHA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Barrios Vera who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tomas Barrios Vera is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Barrios Vera -> 1.32
Mateus Alves -> 3.18

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Prediction and head to head Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Mateus Alves

This will be the 2^nd time that Tomas Barrios Vera and Mateus Alves square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats

), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Tomas Barrios Vera won 7-6(6) 4-6 7-6(2) in the 1^st round in the Sao Paulo Challenger back in 2024.

Tomas Barrios Vera

Ranked no. 137, the Chilean got to the quarter after defeating Juan Alejandro Hernandez 6-1 6-2 and Luciano Emanuel Ambrogi 6-4 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, Marcelo had a good straight sets win against Emanuel Ambrogi (6-4 6-2). During the match, Tomas Barrios Vera scored 64 points vs Emanuel Ambrogi’s 41. Marcelo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Tomas Barrios Vera scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Tomas Barrios Vera lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Tomas Barrios Vera put 71% of his first serves in, winning 85% (29/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. Marcelo broke Emanuel Ambrogi 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Tomas Barrios Vera hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 60% of the points he played.

Tomas Barrios Vera has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (380-224). 30-17 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tomas Barrios Vera has an aggregate 287-157 match record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Campinas Challenger where he defeated Alvaro Guillen Meza in the final 6-4 6-3.

The Chilean has an aggregate 39-25 win-loss record in 2025, 30-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cali Challenger

Mateus Alves

Ranked no. 462, Mateus reached the quarter after beating Salvador Price 6-3 6-2, Juan Alejandro Hernandez 6-4 6-1, Guido Ivan Justo 6-2 6-3 and Federico Agustin Gomez 6-3 6-2.

In the 2^nd round, Mateus had a good straight sets win against Agustin Gomez (6-3 6-2). During the match Alves scored 66 points vs Agustin Gomez’s 46. Mateus was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Alves made 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mateus Alves was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Brazilian broke Agustin Gomez 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Mateus started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 61% of the points he played.

Alves’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Cuiaba.

The Brazilian has an overall 21-21 win-loss record in 2025, 20-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cali Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Tomas Barrios Vera	Alves
Match played	2	4
Tot Set	4	8
Tot Games	33	68
Pts	126-83	265-167
Total Points	209	432
Winners	56	106
%Winners	44%	40%

Tomas Barrios Vera played 2 matches while Alves competed in 4 matches. Alves started his run from the qualifications while Tomas Barrios Vera had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Tomas Barrios Vera has played 4 set(s) less than Alves (4 vs 8). Therefore, Tomas Barrios Vera played 35 games less than Alves. Tomas Barrios Vera scored 56 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Brazilian made 106 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Tomas Barrios Vera	Alves
Aces	8	27
Avg per match	4	6.8
1st in	69/101	132/200
%1st in	68%	66%
1st pts	56/69	106/132
%1st pts	81%	80%
2nd pts	16/32	40/68
%2nd pts	50%	59%

Tomas Barrios Vera bagged 8 aces (4 per match). Alves managed to score 27 aces (6.8 per match). Tomas Barrios Vera won 81% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Alves won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Tomas Barrios Vera	Alves
Won	8	16
Converted	8/22	16/33
% Converted	36%	48%
Conceded	8	16
Saved	7	13
% Saved	88%	81%
Times Broken	1	3

The Chilean broke his opponents 8 times with a 36% conversion rate. Tomas Barrios Vera dropped his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. Mateus broke his opponents 16 times with a 48% conversion rate. Mateus conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 81% of the break points that he conceded.

Tomas Barrios Vera
	R1 Alejandro Hernandez	R2 Emanuel Ambrogi	Total
Score	6-1 6-2	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	15	18	33
pts	62-42	64-41	126-83
Total points	104	105	209
Winners	27	29	56
%Winners	44%	45%	44%
SERVE
Aces	6	2	8
Double Faults	2	1	3
1st in	35/53	34/48	69/101
% 1st in	66%	71%	68%
1st pts	27/35	29/34	56/69
% 1st pts	77%	85%	81%
2nd pts	9/18	7/14	16/32
% 2nd pts	50%	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4	8
Converted	4/11	4/11	8/22
Converted %	36%	36%	36%
Conceded	5	3	8
Saved	5/5	2/3	7
Saved %	100%	67%	84%
Times Broken	0	1	1

Alves
	Q1 Price	Q3 Alejandro	R1 Ivan	R2 Agustin	Total
Score	6-3 6-2	6-4 6-1	6-2 6-3	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	17	17	17	17	68
pts	67-40	60-32	72-49	66-46	265-167
Total points	107	92	121	112	432
Winners	26	23	31	26	106
%Winners	39%	38%	43%	39%	40%
SERVE
Aces	8	9	7	3	27
Double Faults	1	3	1	1	6
1st in	31/44	30/51	38/54	33/51	132/200
% 1st in	70%	59%	70%	65%	66%
1st pts	26/31	23/30	31/38	26/33	106/132
% 1st pts	84%	77%	82%	79%	80%
2nd pts	9/13	11/21	10/16	10/18	40/68
% 2nd pts	69%	52%	63%	56%	59%
Breaks
Won	4	5	3	4	16
Converted	4/5	5/5	3/9	4/14	16/33
Converted %	80%	100%	33%	29%	48%
Conceded	4	5	4	3	16
Saved	3/4	3/5	4/4	3/3	13
Saved %	75%	60%	100%	100%	168%
Times Broken	1	2	0	0	3

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