Facundo Mena and Luca Castelnuovo will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Bogota Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Mena who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.13
Luca Castelnuovo -> 5.6
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Luca Castelnuovo
There is no head to head record between Facundo Mena and Luca Castelnuovo since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Facundo Mena
Ranked no. 234, Mena will start his run in the Bogota Challenger after he played his last match in the Santiago 3 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Pablo Patino-Samudio in the 1st round on the 12th of October.
Mena has a compiled 25-27 win-loss record in 2021, 25-23 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title in the Quito Challenger where he beat Gonzalo Lama in the final 6-4 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Facundo has an overall 339-242 record. He has a positive 291-205 record on clay.
Previously in the Bogota Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017. See his history.
Luca Castelnuovo
Ranked no. 738, the Swiss got to the 1st round after defeating Juan Alejandro Hernandez 6-4 6-2 and Evan King 7-65 5-7 7-66.
In the qualifications, Luca defeated King (7-65 5-7 7-66).-112) than King. In fact, the world no. 234 won 112 points vs King’s. That means that Castelnuovo was more focused during the important points. Castelnuovo was pretty aggressive to blast 54 winners.
Talking about serving, Castelnuovo scored 15 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Luca Castelnuovo lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Castelnuovo put 60% of his first serves in, winning 76% (54/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (23/47) on the 2nd serve. Luca broke King 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Swiss started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Castelnuovo has a composed 18-23 win-loss record in 2021, 10-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Facundo MenaMena – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas BarrientosBarrientos – Juan Sebastian GomezSebastian Gomez (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Pedja KrstinKrstin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Orlando LuzLuz – Gerald MelzerMelzer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GautierGautier – Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Cristian RodriguezRodriguez (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (0-0) – H2H and prediction