Francisco Cerundolo and Facundo Mena will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Campinas Challenger for the 3^rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on QUADRA JOAO LIMA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.146
Facundo Mena -> 5.2

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This will be the 3^rd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Facundo Mena play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Cerundolo (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

Francisco Cerundolo

Ranked no. 159 (career high), Cerundolo reached the 2^nd round after defeating Pedro Sakamoto 6-1 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Francisco had a good straight sets win against Sakamoto (6-1 6-3). During the match Cerundolo scored 63 points vs Sakamoto’s 42. The Argentine was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Cerundolo made 4 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Francisco Cerundolo conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Cerundolo put 70% of his first serves in, winning 82% (31/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (6/16) on the 2nd serve. Francisco broke Sakamoto 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Cerundolo has a fantastic record in the last 5 years having won 73% of his matches (155-58). 27-11 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Cerundolo has a 147-54 record in the last 5 years on clay.

Cerundolo’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Los Angeles,the Split Challenger and the Guayaquil Challenger.

The Argentine has a 32-11 win-loss record in 2020, 27-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Campinas Challenger

Francisco capitulated in the quarter to Sumit Nagal.

Facundo Mena

Ranked no. 238, Mena got to the 2^nd round after defeating Guilherme Clezar 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Facundo had a good straight sets win against Clezar (6-4 6-4). During the match Mena scored 76 points vs Clezar’s 58. Mena was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Mena bagged 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Facundo Mena was exceptionally effective on serve to win 93% (26/28) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Argentine broke Clezar twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).

The Argentine has a 3-10 win-loss record in 2020, 3-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Campinas Challenger

Facundo surrendered in the 2^nd round to Juan Pablo Ficovich.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Cerundolo and Mena played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cerundolo and Mena have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cerundolo played 4 games less than Mena. Francisco scored 31 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Facundo blasted 26 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Cerundolo struck 4 aces . Mena struck 9 aces . Cerundolo won 82% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Mena won 93% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Cerundolo broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Francisco very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Facundo broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Facundo was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Francisco
Cerundolo

3:0

Facundo
Mena

Rank

30

High

19

1Hard0

2Clay0

Rank

202

High

127

Win Loss

Cerundolo

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Mena

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31 - 29

51 - 24

5-10

Hard

3-1

6-4

I Hard

1-0

20-12

Clay

47-23

Tennis Scores in Campinas Challenger

• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Vit KoprivaKopriva (4-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (2-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

• Emilio GomezGomez – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Renzo OlivoOlivo – Facundo BagnisBagnis (2-5) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Joao MenezesMenezes – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Orlando LuzLuz – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Facundo MenaMena (2-0) – H2H and prediction

Cerundolo

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Mena