Portas v Berasategui

ATP Tour career

Albert PortasSpain340 games · 1993–2007Most acesMost first-serve points won %Alberto BerasateguiSpain473 games · 1992–2001Most titlesMost first serve in %

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Alberto Berasategui takes it, 13–2 on categories

Berasategui wins on titles. Portas’s case rests on first-serve points won %, but it isn’t enough to swing it. ATP Tour career: Portas 340 matches, Berasategui 473 matches.

Berasategui has 14 titles (one every 25 matches) to Portas’ 1 title (one every 50 matches).
Berasategui has the better first serve in %: 73.7 to Portas’s 57.3.
Portas averages 4.1 aces a match to Berasategui’s 1.6 — 2.6 times as many.
Winners’ edge: Berasategui’s team won 58%, Portas’s team won 42% of the matches they played.
Not every stat was recorded for every match (titles, finals): those averages use only the games that logged them.

Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.

Tale of the tape

Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.

0.01 total · best 1Titlesper game0.014 total · best 1
57.3First serve in %73.7
67.9First-serve points won %63.2
56.5Break points saved %57.2
38.6Return points won %42.3
4.11,382 total · best 18Acesper game1.6751 total · best 10

Head to head

25 matches
since 19953

Clay · 5 matchesPortas 2Berasategui 3

Last meetings

26 July 1999 · Umag · Round of 32 · ClayPortas won 6-4 6-0
12 Apr 1999 · Barcelona · Round of 32 · ClayBerasategui won 7-6(6) 2-6 6-1
9 June 1997 · Bologna · Round of 16 · ClayBerasategui won 6-2 6-3
14 Apr 1997 · Barcelona · Semifinal · ClayPortas won 6-3 7-5
2 Oct 1995 · Valencia · Round of 32 · ClayBerasategui won 6-3 6-3

Last 10 games

Titles, oldest to newest.

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