Nicolas Mejia and Gustavo Heide will play each other in the 2nd round of the Cali Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Mejia who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Mejia is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Mejia -> 1.77
Gustavo Heide -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Mejia vs. Gustavo Heide
There is no head to head record between Nicolas Mejia and Gustavo Heide since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Nicolas Mejia
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-27 | 15-19 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-33 | 6-13 | 18-18 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-35 | 13-12 | 15-13 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-28 | 16-10 | 5-13 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 248, Nicolas got to the 2nd round after defeating Alejandro Hoyos 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Mejia had a good straight sets win against Hoyos (6-2 6-1). During the match, Mejia scored 57 points vs Hoyos’s 32. Mejia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Mejia fired 3 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Nicolas Mejia was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (18/23) of his 1st serve and 79% (15/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mejia broke Hoyos 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Mejia has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 54% of his matches (154-131). 11-11 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Mejia has a composed85-68 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
Mejia’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Anapoima.
Nicolas has a compiled 15-18 win-loss record in 2023, 11-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cali Challenger
Gustavo Heide
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-18 | 0-1 | 24-15 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-22 | 9-5 | 24-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-13 | 3-2 | 24-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-14 | 4-5 | 27-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 358 (career-high), Heide got to the 2nd round after defeating Max Hans Rehberg 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Brazilian had a good straight sets win against Hans Rehberg (6-3 6-3). During the match Heide scored 63 points vs Hans Rehberg’s 42. The Brazilian was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Heide wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Gustavo Heide was quite effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brazilian broke Hans Rehberg 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Heide’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Palmas del Mar Challenger.
The Brazilian has a composed 14-10 win-loss record in 2023, 7-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cali Challenger
Gustavo has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mejia | Heide |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 18 |
| Pts | 57-32 | 63-42 |
| Total Points | 89 | 105 |
| Winners | 18 | 22 |
| %Winners | 32% | 35% |
Both Mejia and Heide played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mejia and Heide have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mejia played 3 games less than Heide. Mejia scored 18 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Brazilian struck 22 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mejia | Heide |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 0 |
| 1st in | 23/42 | 27/46 |
| %1st in | 55% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 22/27 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 15/19 | 12/19 |
| %2nd pts | 79% | 63% |
Mejia fired 3 aces . Heide didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Mejia won 78% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 79% of the points. On the other side, Heide won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mejia | Heide |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 36% | 80% |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Nicolas broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Colombian pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Brazilian broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Gustavo conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Mejia | |||
| R1 Hoyos |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-32 | 57-32 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 23/42 | 23/42 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 18/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/19 | 15/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 79% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Heide | |||
| R1 Hans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-42 | 63-42 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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