Facundo Mena and Nicolas Kicker will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger for the 10th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:00 pm on Court 1. 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 Facundo Mena who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.66
Nicolas Kicker -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Nicolas Kicker
This will be the 10th time that Facundo Mena and Nicolas Kicker fight against each other. The head to head is 5-4 for Kicker (see full H2H stats), 5-4 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Mena won 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in the Buenos Aires Challenger back in September 2026.
Facundo Mena
36 - 21win/loss
197
127
WLLWWWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36-21 | 4-5 | 32-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 25-27 | 4-3 | 21-23 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-24 | 3-1 | 47-23 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-21 | 11-9 | 18-11 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-29 | 8-7 | 25-20 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 197, Facundo reached the 2nd round after beating Pedro Boscardin Dias 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Boscardin Dias (7-5 6-4). During the match, Mena scored 77 points vs Boscardin Dias’s 62. Mena was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Mena recorded 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Facundo Mena was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 58% (22/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Facundo broke Boscardin Dias 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Mena has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (315-222). 32-16 on clay in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Mena has an overall 255-175 match record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Porto Challenger where he defeated Hugo Dellien in the final 7-6 6-4.
The Argentine has an overall 36-21 win-loss record in 2026, 32-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.
Nicolas Kicker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22-21 | 0-0 | 22-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 53-30 | 3-3 | 50-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-13 | 2-4 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-10 | 1-1 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-28 | 6-6 | 20-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 351, the Argentine reached the 2nd round after beating Thiago Cigarran 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Cigarran (6-3 6-2). During the match Kicker scored 59 points vs Cigarran’s 43. Nicolas was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Kicker scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicolas Kicker lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kicker put 70% of his first serves in, winning 75% (30/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Cigarran 4 times.
Nicolas’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Todi Challenger.
The Argentine has an aggregate 22-21 win-loss record in 2026, 22-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mena | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 77-62 | 59-43 |
| Total Points | 139 | 102 |
| Winners | 22 | 30 |
| %Winners | 29% | 51% |
Both Mena and Kicker played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mena and Kicker have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mena played 5 games more than Kicker. The Argentine scored 22 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine made 30 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mena | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 29/67 | 40/57 |
| %1st in | 43% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 30/40 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 22/38 | 8/17 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 47% |
Mena managed to score 5 aces . Kicker recorded 1 ace . Mena won 76% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Kicker won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mena | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 44% | 100% |
| Conceded | 5 | 8 |
| Saved | 3 | 7 |
| % Saved | 60% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Facundo broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Mena surrendered his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Nicolas broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Nicolas conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Mena | |||
| R1 Boscardin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 77-62 | 77-62 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 29/67 | 29/67 | |
| % 1st in | 43% | 43% | |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 22/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/38 | 22/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kicker | |||
| R1 Cigarran |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-43 | 59-43 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 40/57 | 40/57 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 30/40 | 30/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 8/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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