Grigor Dimitrov and Juan Pablo Varillas will face off in the 2nd round of the Chengdu Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Grigor Dimitrov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Grigor Dimitrov is the pick to win this match.
Grigor Dimitrov -> 1.094
Juan Pablo Varillas -> 7.2
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Prediction and head to head Grigor Dimitrov vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
There is no head to head record between Grigor Dimitrov and Juan Pablo Varillas since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Grigor Dimitrov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-11 | 9-6 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-18 | 21-7 | 8-4 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-21 | 16-10 | 10-5 | 10-4 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-22 | 10-11 | 10-5 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-18 | 18-10 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Dimitrov will start his run in Chengdu after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-7(2) 7-6(8) 6-1 6-1 to Zverev in the 3rd round on the 2nd of September.
Grigor has an aggregate 29-16 win-loss record in 2023, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Bulgarian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Geneva.
Talking about his overall career, The Bulgarian has an overall 548-337 record. He has a positive 238-144 record on hard.
Previously in Chengdu
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2016. See his history.
Juan Pablo Varillas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-20 | 0-1 | 31-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-31 | 0-5 | 27-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 4-7 | 23-17 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 53-27 | 2-3 | 51-23 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 51-23 | 0-2 | 51-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 70, the Peruvian got to the 2nd round after defeating Jie Cui 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Pablo Patino-Samudio had a good straight sets win against Cui (6-1 6-3). During the match Pablo Patino-Samudio scored 54 points vs Cui’s 38. Juan was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Pablo Patino-Samudio bagged 5 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Juan Pablo Varillas was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Peruvian broke Cui 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The Peruvian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Sanremo Challenger.
Pablo Patino-Samudio has a compiled 25-22 win-loss record in 2023, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Benjamin LockLock (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Alexander BublikBublik (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Zizou BergsBergs (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Jie CuiCui (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Max PurcellPurcell (6-2 7-68) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Li TuTu (7-65 7-66) – See score progression
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Tao MuMu (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Aleksandar VukicVukic (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Pavel KotovKotov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Taro DanielDaniel (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
