Nuno Borges and Cristian Garin will face off in the 2nd round of the Cagliari Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 14. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.81
Cristian Garin -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Cristian Garin
This will be the 2nd time that Nuno Borges and Cristian Garin play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Garin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Garin won 6-2 7-6(3) in the quarter in Estoril back in 2024.
Highlights Cristian Garin vs Nuno Borges – Estoril 05-April-2024
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 28-28 | 14-13 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 33-33 | 17-14 | 9-11 | 3-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-26 | 20-12 | 13-7 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-26 | 20-11 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-26 | 7-5 | 28-13 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 49, Borges will start his run in the Cagliari Challenger after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Navone in the 1st round on the 23rd of April.
Borges has a composed 9-14 win-loss record in 2026, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Nuno has an overall 325-180 record. He has a positive 133-71 record on clay.
Previously in the Cagliari Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Cristian Garin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11-17 | 2-6 | 9-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 49-22 | 6-6 | 39-13 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-24 | 3-6 | 13-14 | 1-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-25 | 22-12 | 18-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-23 | 4-5 | 9-11 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85, the Chilean got to the 2nd round after beating Moez Echargui 6-7(5) 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round against Echargui, Garin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-4 6-2). During the match Garin scored 105 points vs Echargui’s 92. Christian was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Garin recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Cristian Garin lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Garin put 56% of his first serves in, winning 69% (40/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (27/46) on the 2nd serve. Garin broke Echargui 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Christian has a compiled 6-10 win-loss record in 2026, 6-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
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Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Cagliari Challenger
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Federico CinaCina (6-78 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Luca PotenzaPotenza (6-3 7-66) – See score progression
- Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso – Lorenzo CarboniCarboni (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-73 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso – Lorenzo CarboniCarboni (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-2 7-68) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Cristian GarinGarin – Moez EcharguiEchargui (6-75 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Patrick KypsonKypson (6-4 6-75 7-65) – See score progression
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-74 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Luca PotenzaPotenza (6-3 7-6(6)) – See score progression
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Federico CinaCina (6-7(8) 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-7(3) 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso – Lorenzo CarboniCarboni (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Christian GarinGarin – Nuno BorgesBorges (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-2) – H2H and prediction
