Nicolas Alvarez Varona and N.Sriram Balaji will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Alicante Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on PISTA 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Alvarez Varona who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Alvarez Varona is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona -> 1.151
N.Sriram Balaji -> 5.1
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Alvarez Varona vs. N.Sriram Balaji
There is no head to head record between Nicolas Alvarez Varona and N.Sriram Balaji since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona
Ranked no. 441, Nicolas will start his run in the Alicante Challenger after he played his last match in the Barcelona Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-1 to Gaston in the quarter on the 8th of October.
Nicolas has an aggregate 26-16 win-loss record in 2021, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Nicolas’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Alkmaar and M25 Santander.
Talking about his overall career, Alvarez Varona has an overall 118-76 record. He has a positive 69-39 record on hard.
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2019. See his history.
N.Sriram Balaji
Currently unranked, Balaji reached the 1st round after defeating Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 7-65 7-64 and Alex Lawson 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Lawson (6-3 6-3). During the match Balaji scored 67 points vs Lawson’s 50. The Indian was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Balaji scored 6 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. N.Sriram Balaji was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Indian broke Lawson 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Balaji started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
Balaji has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Alicante Challenger
N.Sriram has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LW Tennis Scores in Alicante Challenger
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- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Nicola KuhnKuhn (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mischa ZverevZverev – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kacper ZukZuk – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (5-7 7-61 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis IstominIstomin – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (6-2 4-6 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
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