Juan Pablo Ficovich and Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Alicante Challenger for the 4th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 3 sets.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.57
Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera -> 2.25
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera
This will be the 4th time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Tomas Barrios Vera won 6-4 1-0 ret. in the qualifications in the Montevideo Challenger back in 2018.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
Ranked no. 200, Juan got to the qualifications after beating Carlos Taberner 7-65 6-3.
In the 1st round, Pablo Ficovich had a good straight sets win against Taberner (7-65 6-3). During the match Pablo Ficovich scored 79 points vs Taberner’s 62. The Argentine was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pablo Ficovich scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was quite effective on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 75% (24/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Juan broke Taberner 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Pablo Ficovich has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 60% of his matches (259-171). 11-10 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Pablo Ficovich has a 243-151 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Morelos Challenger.
The Argentine has a 15-14 win-loss record in 2020, 11-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Alicante Challenger
Juan didn’t compete in the Alicante Challenger in 2019.
Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera
Ranked no. 274 (career high), Tomas Barrios Vera got to the qualifications after beating Emilio Nava 6-2 6-0, Carlos Lopez Montagud 6-2 6-0 and Tommy Robredo 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Chilean had a good straight sets win against Robredo (6-3 6-3). During the match Tomas Barrios Vera scored 61 points vs Robredo’s 45. Tomas Barrios Vera was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Tomas Barrios Vera managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Tomas Barrios Vera put 70% of his first serves in, winning 65% (24/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Chilean broke Robredo 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Tomas Barrios Vera’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Lima.
The Chilean has a 21-9 win-loss record in 2020, 20-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Alicante Challenger
Marcelo didn’t compete in the Alicante Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pablo Ficovich | Tomas Barrios Vera |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 46 |
| Pts | 79-62 | 170-100 |
| Total Points | 141 | 270 |
| Winners | 22 | 68 |
| %Winners | 28% | 40% |
Pablo Ficovich played 1 match while Tomas Barrios Vera competed in 3 matches. Tomas Barrios Vera started his run from the qualifications while Pablo Ficovich had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Pablo Ficovich has played 4 set(s) less than Tomas Barrios Vera (2 vs 6). Therefore, Pablo Ficovich played 24 games less than Tomas Barrios Vera. The Argentine scored 22 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Marcelo bagged 68 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pablo Ficovich | Tomas Barrios Vera |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 28/60 | 90/129 |
| %1st in | 47% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 68/90 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 24/32 | 23/39 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 59% |
Pablo Ficovich struck 5 aces . Tomas Barrios Vera blasted 6 aces (2 per match). Pablo Ficovich won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Tomas Barrios Vera won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pablo Ficovich | Tomas Barrios Vera |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 16 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 16/25 |
| % Converted | 38% | 64% |
| Conceded | 6 | 10 |
| Saved | 5 | 7 |
| % Saved | 83% | 70% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Juan broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Pablo Ficovich lost his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Marcelo broke his opponents 16 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Chilean conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pablo Ficovich | |||
| R1 Taberner | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 79-62 | 79-62 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/60 | 28/60 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 22/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Tomas Barrios Vera | |||||
| Q1 Nava | Q3 Lopez Montagud | R1 Robredo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | 6-2 6-0 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | 18 | 46 | |
| pts | 55-30 | 54-25 | 61-45 | 170-100 | |
| Total points | 85 | 79 | 106 | 270 | |
| Winners | 25 | 19 | 24 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 35% | 39% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/42 | 22/34 | 37/53 | 90/129 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 65% | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 19/22 | 24/37 | 68/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 86% | 65% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 9/12 | 7/16 | 23/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 75% | 44% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/10 | 6/9 | 16/25 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 50% | 67% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 0/0 | 5/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 63% | 163% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
Tennis Scores in Alicante Challenger
- Tomas MachacMachac – Liam BroadyBroady (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Inigo CervantesCervantes (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Guillermo Garcia-LopezGarcia-Lopez (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – H2H and prediction