Tomas Barrios Vera and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida will play each other in the 1st round of the Costa do Sauipe Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on QUADRA 2. 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 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 -> 1.35
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida -> 3.02
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
This will be the 4th time that Tomas Barrios Vera and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Tomas Barrios Vera won 7-6(6) 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Campinas Challenger back in 2024.
Tomas Barrios Vera
44 - 26win/loss
111
93
LWWWWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52-28 | 5-5 | 43-20 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-28 | 6-5 | 26-19 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 4-7 | 42-22 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-17 | 3-1 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-27 | 4-6 | 34-20 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 118, Tomas Barrios Vera will start his run in the Costa do Sauipe Challenger after he played his last match in the Curitiba Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-7(2) 6-3 to Daniel Vallejo in the quarter on the 17th of October.
Marcelo has an overall 44-26 win-loss record in 2025, 35-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Campinas Challenger where he beat Alvaro Guillen Meza in the final 6-4 6-3 and the Cali Challenger where he overcame Juan Carlos Prado Angelo in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Marcelo has an overall 402-236 record. He has a positive 302-167 record on clay.
Previously in the Costa do Sauipe Challenger
Marcelo has never competed in this tournament before.
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-26 | 0-1 | 39-24 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-27 | 0-1 | 38-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-25 | 1-3 | 19-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 1-3 | 27-24 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 316, the Brazilian got to the 1st round after beating Wilson Leite 7-5 6-3 and Daniel Dutra Da Silva 4-6 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications against Dutra Da Silva, The Brazilian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Pucinelli De Almeida scored 91 points vs Dutra Da Silva’s 84. Matheus was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Pucinelli De Almeida wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Pucinelli De Almeida put 55% of his first serves in, winning 61% (31/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (22/41) on the 2nd serve. The Brazilian broke Dutra Da Silva 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Matheus started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Brazilian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Santos Challenger.
Matheus has a compiled 30-22 win-loss record in 2025, 30-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian GimaGima – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Igor GimenezGimenez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Hady HabibHabib (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Boscardin DiasBoscardin Dias – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (1-0) – H2H and prediction
