Nerman Fatic and Matias Zukas will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Ambato Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nerman Fatic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nerman Fatic is the pick to win this match.
Nerman Fatic -> 1.40
Matias Zukas -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Nerman Fatic vs. Matias Zukas
This will be the 3rd time that Nerman Fatic and Matias Zukas clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Fatic and Zukas (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Zukas won 6-4 4-6 7-5 in the 2nd round in M15 Antalya back in February 2021.
Nerman Fatic
Ranked no. 317, Nerman got to the 2nd round after defeating Adrian Menendez-Maceiras 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Fatic had a good straight sets win against Menendez-Maceiras (6-2 7-5). During the match, Fatic scored 64 points vs Menendez-Maceiras’s 51. The Bosnian was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fatic fired 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nerman Fatic was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (30/39) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Fatic broke Menendez-Maceiras 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Fatic has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of his matches (230-156). 25-18 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Fatic has an aggregate190-118 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
Fatic’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Prijedor.
The Bosnian has a compiled 25-19 win-loss record in 2021, 25-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
The Bosnian has never competed in this tournament before.
Matias Zukas
Ranked no. 522, Matias reached the 2nd round after defeating Matias Franco Descotte 6-4 7-63, Luca Castelnuovo 6-3 7-63 and Renzo Olivo 6-4 5-7 6-4.
In the 1st round, Zukas defeated Olivo (6-4 5-7 6-4). During the match Zukas scored 93 points vs Olivo’s 90. Zukas was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Zukas made 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Matias Zukas was quite efficient on serve to win 80% (35/44) of his 1st serve and 65% (30/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Olivo twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
The Argentine’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya and M15 Novomoskovsk.
Matias has a composed 34-18 win-loss record in 2021, 34-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fatic | Zukas |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 77 |
| Pts | 64-51 | 254-218 |
| Total Points | 115 | 472 |
| Winners | 30 | 94 |
| %Winners | 47% | 37% |
Fatic played 1 match while Zukas competed in 3 matches. Zukas started his run from the qualifications while Fatic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Matias Zukas lost 1 set while Nerman Fatic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Fatic has played 5 set(s) less than Zukas (2 vs 7). Therefore, Fatic played 57 games less than Zukas. The Bosnian scored 30 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine scored 94 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fatic | Zukas |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 29 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 9.7 |
| 1st in | 39/55 | 113/225 |
| %1st in | 71% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 94/113 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 76/112 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 68% |
Fatic blasted 9 aces . Zukas blasted 29 aces (9.7 per match). Fatic won 77% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Zukas won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fatic | Zukas |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 5/22 |
| % Converted | 60% | 23% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Bosnian broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Nerman extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Argentine broke his opponents 5 times with a 23% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Fatic | |||
| R1 Menendez-Maceiras |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 64-51 | 64-51 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/55 | 39/55 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 30/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zukas | |||||
| Q1 Franco Descotte |
Q3 Castelnuovo |
R1 Olivo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-3 7-63 | 6-4 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 22 | 32 | 77 | |
| pts | 81-69 | 80-59 | 93-90 | 254-218 | |
| Total points | 150 | 139 | 183 | 472 | |
| Winners | 26 | 33 | 35 | 94 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 41% | 38% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 9 | 11 | 9 | 29 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 33/73 | 36/62 | 44/90 | 113/225 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 58% | 49% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 33/36 | 35/44 | 94/113 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 92% | 80% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 27/40 | 19/26 | 30/46 | 76/112 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 73% | 65% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/11 | 1/6 | 2/5 | 5/22 | |
| Converted % | 18% | 17% | 40% | 23% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 0/0 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | – | 67% | 134% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Ambato Challenger
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Nick HardtHardt (6-2 7-66) – See score progression
- Matias ZukasZukas – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-4 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Johan NiklesNikles – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (7-5 7-67) – See score progression
- Julian LenzLenz – Emilio GomezGomez (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Alejandro GomezGomez – Cayetano MarchMarch (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nerman FaticFatic – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (6-3 3-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Alejandro GonzalezGonzalez (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Daniel Espin PerezEspin Perez (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinMartin – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 3-6 7-67) – See score progression
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato (6-4 6-76 6-3) – See score progression
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- Gerald MelzerMelzer – Patrick KypsonKypson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Johan NiklesNikles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GautierGautier – Gonzalo LamaLama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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