Carlos Taberner and Gonzalo Villanueva will square off in the 1st round of the Costa do Sauipe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on QUADRA 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Taberner who should win in 2 sets.
Carlos Taberner -> 1.26
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 3.58
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Prediction and head to head Carlos Taberner vs. Gonzalo Villanueva
This will be the 2nd time that Carlos Taberner and Gonzalo Villanueva face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Taberner (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Taberner won 6-1 6-4 in the qualifications in the Santa Fe 2 Challenger back in 2023.
Carlos Taberner
42 - 24win/loss
103
83
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46-28 | 1-3 | 45-24 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-36 | 0-3 | 46-31 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-23 | 3-4 | 22-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-33 | 1-2 | 29-27 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-25 | 3-4 | 33-15 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102, the Spaniard will start his run in the Costa do Sauipe Challenger after he played his last match in the Valencia Challenger where he lost 7-6(10) 6-0 to Mikrut in the semifinal on the 12th of October.
Carlos has an aggregate 42-24 win-loss record in 2025, 41-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Murcia Challenger where he overcame Jesper De Jong in the final 7-6(3) 4-6 6-2 and the Sassuolo Challenger where he beat Dusan Lajovic in the final 7-6(1) 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Carlos has an overall 446-276 record. He has a positive 402-220 record on clay.
Previously in the Costa do Sauipe Challenger
Carlos has never competed in this tournament before.
Gonzalo Villanueva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45-31 | 0-0 | 41-30 | 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. 354, Villanueva got to the 1st round after beating Paulo Saraiva Dos Santos 7-5 6-2 and Miguel Tobon 6-0 6-0.
In the qualifications, Gonzalo had a good straight sets win against Tobon (6-0 6-0). During the match Villanueva scored 58 points vs Tobon’s 23. Gonzalo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 13 winners.
About the serving games, Villanueva was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Gonzalo Villanueva was pretty efficient on serve to win 100% (13/13) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Argentine broke Tobon 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Argentine started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 63% of the points he played.
The Argentine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Coquimbo and M25 Trelew.
The Argentine has an overall 40-26 win-loss record in 2025, 36-25 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Costa Do Sauipe Challenger
- Gustavo HeideHeide – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (6-2 2-6 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (6-72 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Alex BarrenaBarrena (7-5 6-73 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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