Juan Pablo Ficovich and Akira Santillan will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Traralgon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. 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 Akira Santillan who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Akira Santillan is the pick to win this match.
Akira Santillan -> 1.36
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 3.00

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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Akira Santillan

There is no head to head record between Juan Pablo Ficovich and Akira Santillan since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Juan Pablo Ficovich

Juan Pablo Ficovich

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Rank
164
High
125
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 34-33 11-9 21-21 0-1 2-2 0-0
2024 41-33 5-7 36-22 0-3 0-1 0-0
2023 27-33 15-13 11-18 0-1 1-1 0-0
2022 32-32 6-11 23-15 3-6 0-0 0-0
2021 16-16 2-3 14-12 0-0 0-1 0-0

Ranked no. 236, Juan will start his run in the Traralgon Challenger after he played his last match in the Rio De Janeiro Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-1 6-2 to Gomez in the 1st round on the 14th of December.

This will be the first match of the year on hard.

Talking about his overall career, Juan has an overall 277-192 record. He has a negative 12-14 record on hard.

Previously in the Traralgon Challenger

The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.

Traralgon Challenger
Pablo Ficovich's Record

Akira Santillan

Akira Santillan

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Rank
348
High
144
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 61-22 33-13 6-2 22-7 0-0 0-0
2024 3-7 3-6 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 39-33 11-13 21-14 7-6 0-0 0-0
2022 37-28 28-19 9-8 0-0 0-0 0-1
2021 20-15 2-5 12-7 6-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 335, Santillan got to the 2nd round after beating Lukas Rosol 7-5 6-4.

In the 1st round, Akira had a good straight sets win against Rosol (7-5 6-4). During the match Santillan scored 68 points vs Rosol’s 53. Santillan was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Santillan fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Akira Santillan was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Santillan broke Rosol 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

The Australian has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Traralgon Challenger
Santillan's Record

Tennis Scores in Traralgon Challenger

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