Gonzalo Villanueva and Nicolas Zanellato will face off in the 1st round of the Florianopolis Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on QUADRA 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gonzalo Villanueva who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Gonzalo Villanueva is the pick to win this match.
Gonzalo Villanueva -> 1.177
Nicolas Zanellato -> 4.2

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Prediction and head to head Gonzalo Villanueva vs. Nicolas Zanellato

This will be the 3rd time that Gonzalo Villanueva and Nicolas Zanellato clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Villanueva and Zanellato (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.

The last time that they played, Zanellato won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Asuncion Challenger back in 2024.

Gonzalo Villanueva

Gonzalo Villanueva

44 - 30win/loss

Clay
40-29
Rank
346
High
268
LLWWWLWLWW
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. 346, Villanueva will start his run in the Florianopolis Challenger after he played his last match in the Montevideo Challenger where he lost 6-3 4-6 7-6(2) to Aguilar in the qualifications on the 10th of November.

Gonzalo has an aggregate 44-30 win-loss record in 2025, 40-29 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Villanueva’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Coquimbo and M25 Trelew.

Talking about his overall career, Villanueva has an overall 463-350 record. He has a positive 443-323 record on clay.

Previously in the Florianopolis Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.

Florianopolis Challenger
Villanueva's Record

Nicolas Zanellato

Nicolas Zanellato

29 - 22win/loss

Hard
1-2
I Hard
0-0
Clay
28-20
Rank
808
High
458
WWLWWLWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-22 1-2 28-20 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 14-20 0-0 14-20 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 46-29 0-0 46-29 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 43-26 5-6 38-20 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 15-14 1-3 14-11 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 808, Nicolas got to the 1st round after beating Ezequiel Monferrer 6-4 6-1 and Jefferson Wendler Filho 6-4 6-2.

In the qualifications, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Wendler Filho (6-4 6-2). During the match Zanellato scored 70 points vs Wendler Filho’s 49. Zanellato was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Zanellato was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicolas Zanellato lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zanellato put 73% of his first serves in, winning 73% (33/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Nicolas broke Wendler Filho 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Zanellato 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 59% of the points he played.

Nicolas has an overall 29-22 win-loss record in 2025, 28-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Florianopolis Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.

Florianopolis Challenger
Zanellato's Record

Tennis Scores in Florianopolis Challenger

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