Juan Pablo Ficovich and Nicolas Kicker will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Meerbusch Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on YONEX COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Kicker who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Kicker is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.28
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 3.54
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Nicolas Kicker
This will be the 3rd time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Nicolas Kicker face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Kicker (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kicker won 7-5 7-5 in the semifinal in Argentina F16 back in 1970.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
Ranked no. 237, Juan will start his run in the Meerbusch Challenger after he played his last match in the Liberec Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Safwat in the 1st round on the 2nd of August.
The Argentine has a compiled 1-3 win-loss record in 2021, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Juan has an overall 262-179 record. He has a positive 245-156 record on clay.
Previously in the Meerbusch Challenger
Juan has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Kicker
Ranked no. 298, Kicker got to the 1st round after defeating Bart Stevens 6-2 6-4 and Ivan Nedelko 2-6 7-62 7-64.
In the qualifications against Nedelko, Nicolas recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-62 7-64).-116) than Nedelko. In fact, the world no. 237 won 116 points vs Nedelko’s. That means that Kicker was more focused during the important points. Kicker was quite aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Talking about serving, Kicker scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Nicolas Kicker lost the serve 5 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kicker put 75% of his first serves in, winning 65% (49/75) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Nedelko 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Argentine started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Kicker’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Villa Maria,M25 Pensacola,M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Tulsa and the Tampere Challenger.
The Argentine has an overall 48-8 win-loss record in 2021, 34-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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