Leonardo Mayer VS Pablo Cuevas (BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )™
PREVIEW & TIPS Leonardo Mayer VS Pablo Cuevas
Today for our tennis pick he have an intersting match between Leonardo Mayer and Pablo Cuevas wich will played in ATP – SINGLES: Sao Paulo (Brazil), clay. The favorite player to win this match is Pablo Cuevas.
Leonardo Mayer News
After facing the first-round exit at Rio last week, Leonardo Mayer has produced two workmanlike performances this week to defeat Gastao Elias (three sets) and an out of form Carlos Berlocq (straight sets) this week.
Leonardo Mayer’s only quarterfinal appearance in 2018 came at Buenos Aires earlier this month where he lost to Gael Monfils in three sets.
The Argentinian has played two quarterfinal matches from his four previous appearances at Sao Paulo but lost on both occasions to Thomaz Bellucci in 2012 and Joao Souza in 2014.
Leonardo Mayer VS Pablo Cuevas STATS
The history between these two South American clay courters dates back to 2004 when they first met in an ITF event. Leonardo Mayer leads the H2H against Cuevas by 3-2, but this will be their first meeting since 2014. Both these players are very much capable of winning this matchup and whoever is having the better day will probably come out on top in this quarterfinal clash, as there’s nothing much between them. That said, being the three-time defending Champion will be an extra motivation for Ceuvas to do well again.
Pablo Cuevas News
Pablo Cuevas needed a second set tiebreaker to defeat the 21-year-old Austrian, Sebastian Ofner, in the first round.
The Uruguayan was trailing 0-3 in the tiebreak, but he used all his experience to come out unscathed, 6-4 7-6.
Pablo Cuevas, who got a first-round bye this week, will play only his second quarterfinal of the season.
He made the quarterfinal at Rio de Janeiro last week but lost to Nicolas Jarry in straight sets. The World #31 started his clay swing with a disappointing first-round exit at the hands of Gael Monfils in Buenos Aires.
Only once this season, Pablo Cuevas had managed to win back to back matches in 2018, which came at Rio last week, when he defeated Thiago Monteiro and Gastao Elias.
Pablo Cuevas is the three-time defending Champion here.
His only defeat in his event came against Horacio Zeballos in the first round of 2014 edition. Cuevas’s W/L record at Sao Paulo stands at an impressive 14/1.