Kevin King and Facundo Diaz Acosta will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Salinas 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:30 am on CANCHA 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Diaz Acosta who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Diaz Acosta is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Diaz Acosta -> 1.71
Kevin King -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Kevin King vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
There is no head to head record between Kevin King and Facundo Diaz Acosta since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Kevin King
Ranked no. 315, Kevin will start his run in the Salinas 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Salinas Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-2 to Agustin in the 2nd round on the 21st of April.
King has a 4-5 win-loss record in 2021, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 231-165 record. He has a positive 150-98 record on hard.
Previously in the Salinas 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Facundo Diaz Acosta
Ranked no. 397, the Argentine got to the 1st round after defeating Mathieu Perchicot 6-1 6-4 and Benjamin Lock 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Facundo had a good straight sets win against Lock (6-1 6-2). During the match Diaz scored 65 points vs Lock’s 40. Facundo was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Diaz blasted 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Facundo Diaz Acosta was very efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Facundo broke Lock 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Argentine started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 63% of the points he played.
The Argentine’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Cairo and M15 Sharm El Sheikh.
Diaz has a 13-7 win-loss record in 2021, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras – Diego HidalgoHidalgo (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Skander MansouriMansouri – Joao MenezesMenezes (6-77 6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (7-62 6-76 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio GomezGomez – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Agustin VelottiVelotti – Roberto Cid SuberviCid Subervi (5-7 6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Hernan CasanovaCasanova (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Orlando LuzLuz – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Agustin VelottiVelotti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Cayetano MarchMarch (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Kevin KingKing (0-0) – H2H and prediction
