Juan Pablo Varillas and Matias Zukas will square off in the quarter of the Ambato Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Varillas who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Varillas is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Varillas -> 1.18
Matias Zukas -> 4.50
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Matias Zukas
This will be the 4th time that Juan Pablo Varillas and Matias Zukas play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Pablo Patino-Samudio (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Zukas won 7-6(3) 1-6 6-3 in the quarter in Peru F2 (Lima) back in 2017.
Juan Pablo Varillas
Ranked no. 121 (career-high), the Peruvian reached the quarter after beating Roberto Quiroz 6-3 3-6 7-66 and Genaro Alberto Olivieri 6-1 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Juan had a good straight sets win against Alberto Olivieri (6-1 6-3). During the match, Pablo Patino-Samudio scored 68 points vs Alberto Olivieri’s 49. The Peruvian was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pablo Patino-Samudio made 6 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Juan Pablo Varillas was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Juan broke Alberto Olivieri 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Pablo Patino-Samudio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this tournament to conquer 53% of the points he played.
Pablo Patino-Samudio has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (292-189). 34-13 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Pablo Patino-Samudio has a compiled262-161 record in the last 8 years on clay.
His best result of the year was conquering the title in the Biella 5 Challenger where he overcame Guido Andreozzi in the final 6-3 6-1.
Juan has an overall 34-16 win-loss record in 2021, 34-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
The Peruvian has never competed in this tournament before.
Matias Zukas
Ranked no. 522, Matias got to the quarter after defeating Matias Franco Descotte 6-4 7-63, Luca Castelnuovo 6-3 7-63, Renzo Olivo 6-4 5-7 6-4 and Nerman Fatic 6-4 2-1 ret..
In the 2nd round, Matias had a good straight sets win against Fatic (6-4 2-1 ret.). During the match Zukas scored 43 points vs Fatic’s 31. Zukas was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Zukas managed to score 3 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Matias Zukas was very efficient on serve to win 78% (18/23) of his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zukas was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Fatic once.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Matias started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Matias’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M15 Novomoskovsk.
Matias has a composed 35-18 win-loss record in 2021, 35-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pablo Patino-Samudio | Zukas |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 10 |
| Tot Games | 47 | 90 |
| Pts | 150-134 | 297-249 |
| Total Points | 284 | 546 |
| Winners | 68 | 112 |
| %Winners | 45% | 38% |
Pablo Patino-Samudio played 2 matches while Zukas competed in 4 matches. Zukas started his run from the qualifications while Pablo Patino-Samudio had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Juan Pablo Varillas conceded 1 set, while Matias Zukas surrendered 1 set. Pablo Patino-Samudio has played 5 set(s) less than Zukas (5 vs 10). Therefore, Pablo Patino-Samudio played 43 games less than Zukas. Juan scored 68 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Zukas recorded 112 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pablo Patino-Samudio | Zukas |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 13 | 32 |
| Avg per match | 6.5 | 8 |
| 1st in | 81/129 | 136/263 |
| %1st in | 63% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 68/81 | 112/136 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 27/48 | 88/127 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 69% |
Pablo Patino-Samudio bagged 13 aces (6.5 per match). Zukas scored 32 aces (8 per match). Pablo Patino-Samudio won 84% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Zukas won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pablo Patino-Samudio | Zukas |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 6/23 |
| % Converted | 56% | 26% |
| Conceded | 2 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 50% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Juan broke his opponents 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Peruvian dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Zukas broke his opponents 6 times with a 26% conversion rate. Zukas conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pablo Patino-Samudio | ||||
| R1 Quiroz |
R2 Alberto Olivieri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 7-66 | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 16 | 47 | |
| pts | 82-85 | 68-49 | 150-134 | |
| Total points | 167 | 117 | 284 | |
| Winners | 46 | 22 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 56% | 32% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 6 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 54/83 | 27/46 | 81/129 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 59% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 46/54 | 22/27 | 68/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 81% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 11/19 | 27/48 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 58% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 4/8 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 50% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zukas | ||||||
| Q1 Franco Descotte |
Q3 Castelnuovo |
R1 Olivo |
R2 Fatic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-3 7-63 | 6-4 5-7 6-4 | 6-4 2-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 22 | 32 | 13 | 90 | |
| pts | 81-69 | 80-59 | 93-90 | 43-31 | 297-249 | |
| Total points | 150 | 139 | 183 | 74 | 546 | |
| Winners | 26 | 33 | 35 | 18 | 112 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 41% | 38% | 42% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 9 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 32 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 33/73 | 36/62 | 44/90 | 23/38 | 136/263 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 58% | 49% | 61% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 33/36 | 35/44 | 18/23 | 112/136 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 92% | 80% | 78% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 27/40 | 19/26 | 30/46 | 12/15 | 88/127 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 73% | 65% | 80% | 69% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Converted | 2/11 | 1/6 | 2/5 | 1/1 | 6/23 | |
| Converted % | 18% | 17% | 40% | 100% | 26% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 0/0 | 2/3 | 2/2 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 67% | – | 67% | 100% | 117% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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