H2H, prediction of Luca Van Assche vs Daniel Merida Aguilar in Villena Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 1st October 2024

PREVIEW. Villena Challenger. Van Assche and Merida Aguilar will play each other in the 1st round of the Villena Challenger. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their next match on Tuesday the 1st of October

Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Daniel Merida Aguilar

Luca Van Assche and Daniel Merida Aguilar will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Villena Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on PISTA CARLOS ALCARAZ. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Van Assche who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Luca Van Assche is the pick to win this match.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.32
Daniel Merida Aguilar -> 3.15

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Soccer Tonic Predictions

Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Daniel Merida Aguilar

There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Daniel Merida Aguilar since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Luca Van Assche

Luca Van Assche
Luca Van Assche

26 - 29win/loss

Hard
15-14
I Hard
1-3
Clay
8-10
Grass
2-2
Rank
128
High
63
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 35-38 15-15 8-10 10-11 2-2 0-0
2023 34-30 1-7 15-11 15-9 3-3 0-0
2022 55-31 0-1 40-20 15-10 0-0 0-0
2021 26-22 3-2 8-7 15-13 0-0 0-0
2020 7-4 0-0 6-2 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 111, Luca will start his run in the Villena Challenger after he played his last match in the Orleans Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-3 6-1 to Gojo in the 1st round on the 23rd of September.

Van Assche has an overall 25-29 win-loss record in 2024, 14-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Van Assche’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger and the Heilbronn Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Van Assche has an overall 147-116 record. He has a negative 18-24 record on hard.

Previously in the Villena Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Van Assche
Villena Challenger
Van Assche's Record

Daniel Merida Aguilar

Daniel Merida Aguilar
Daniel Merida Aguilar

52 - 28win/loss

Hard
14-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
38-20
Rank
299
High
299
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 57-33 17-9 40-23 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 37-31 16-13 20-17 1-1 0-0 0-0
2022 29-26 8-9 21-16 0-1 0-0 0-0
2021 12-14 1-4 11-10 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 1-3 0-0 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 333 (career-high), the Spaniard got to the 1st round after defeating Mees Rottgering 6-4 6-2 and Laurent Lokoli 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Lokoli (6-2 6-4). During the match Merida Aguilar scored 63 points vs Lokoli’s 45. Daniel was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Merida Aguilar wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Daniel Merida Aguilar lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Merida Aguilar put 74% of his first serves in, winning 71% (25/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Daniel broke Lokoli 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Spaniard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.

The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Antalya,M25 Santander,M25 Oviedo and M15 Madrid.

Daniel has a compiled 52-27 win-loss record in 2024, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Merida Aguilar
Villena Challenger
Merida Aguilar's Record
Bonus
Soccer Tonic Predictions

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Van Assche
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Merida Aguilar
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2024 2023 2022
34 - 38
57 - 33
15-15
Hard
17-9
9-11
I Hard
0-1
8-10
Clay
40-23
2-2
Grass
0-0

Tennis Scores in Villena Challenger

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Soccer Tonic Predictions
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