Facundo Bagnis and Nicolas Alvarez will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Guayaquil Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on CANCHA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Bagnis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Bagnis is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Bagnis -> 1.13
Nicolas Alvarez -> 5.95
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Bagnis vs. Nicolas Alvarez
This will be the 2nd time that Facundo Bagnis and Nicolas Alvarez clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bagnis (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Bagnis won 7-6(6) 3-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Punta Del Este Challenger back in 2020.
Facundo Bagnis
Ranked no. 79, Facundo got to the 2nd round after defeating Hernan Casanova 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Bagnis had a good straight sets win against Casanova (6-2 6-2). During the match, Bagnis scored 67 points vs Casanova’s 46. The Argentine was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bagnis made 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Facundo Bagnis lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Bagnis put 68% of his first serves in, winning 81% (29/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (6/17) on the 2nd serve. Bagnis broke Casanova 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Bagnis has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (366-247). 32-14 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Bagnis has a compiled 346-209 match record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title in the Anif Challenger where he defeated Federico Coria in the final 6-4 3-6 6-2.
Bagnis has a compiled 35-21 win-loss record in 2021, 32-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guayaquil Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2017. See his history.
Nicolas Alvarez
Ranked no. 389, Alvarez got to the 2nd round after beating Federico Zeballos 6-1 6-0, Nicolas Barrientos 2-6 6-4 6-4 and Thiago Agustin Tirante 4-6 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round against Agustin Tirante, Alvarez recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-5 6-3). During the match Alvarez scored 94 points vs Agustin Tirante’s 80. Alvarez was very aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Talking about serving, Alvarez was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Nicolas Alvarez was extremely efficient on serve to win 78% (49/63) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alvarez was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Agustin Tirante twice.
The Peruvian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Portoviejo and M25 Oviedo.
Alvarez has an overall 21-24 win-loss record in 2021, 19-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guayaquil Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018 and 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bagnis | Alvarez |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 72 |
| Pts | 67-46 | 242-200 |
| Total Points | 113 | 442 |
| Winners | 29 | 117 |
| %Winners | 43% | 48% |
Bagnis played 1 match while Alvarez competed in 3 matches. Alvarez started his run from the qualifications while Bagnis had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Nicolas Alvarez conceded 2 sets while Facundo Bagnis hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bagnis has played 6 set(s) less than Alvarez (2 vs 8). Therefore, Bagnis played 56 games less than Alvarez. Facundo scored 29 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Nicolas recorded 117 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bagnis | Alvarez |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 5.3 |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 155/218 |
| %1st in | 68% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 117/155 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 6/17 | 32/63 |
| %2nd pts | 35% | 51% |
Bagnis scored 5 aces . Alvarez blasted 16 aces (5.3 per match). Bagnis won 81% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 35% of the points. On the other side, Alvarez won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bagnis | Alvarez |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 11 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 11/17 |
| % Converted | 45% | 65% |
| Conceded | 7 | 13 |
| Saved | 6 | 9 |
| % Saved | 86% | 69% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
The Argentine broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Bagnis lost his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Alvarez broke his opponents 11 times with a 65% conversion rate. The Peruvian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.
| Bagnis | |||
| R1 Casanova |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 67-46 | 67-46 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 36/53 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/17 | 6/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 35% | 35% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Alvarez | |||||
| Q1 Zeballos |
Q3 Barrientos |
R1 Agustin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | 2-6 6-4 6-4 | 4-6 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 28 | 31 | 72 | |
| pts | 49-22 | 99-98 | 94-80 | 242-200 | |
| Total points | 71 | 197 | 174 | 442 | |
| Winners | 19 | 49 | 49 | 117 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 49% | 52% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 4 | 12 | 0 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 25/35 | 67/98 | 63/85 | 155/218 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 68% | 74% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 49/67 | 49/63 | 117/155 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 73% | 78% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/10 | 12/31 | 14/22 | 32/63 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 39% | 64% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 3/7 | 2/2 | 11/17 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 43% | 100% | 65% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 9 | 4 | 13 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 6/9 | 3/4 | 9 | |
| Saved % | – | 67% | 75% | 142% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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