Facundo Mena and Tim Van Rijthoven will face off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 8:00 pm on Court 5. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tim Van Rijthoven who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tim Van Rijthoven is the pick to win this match.
Tim Van Rijthoven -> 1.42
Facundo Mena -> 2.875

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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Tim Van Rijthoven

There is no head to head record between Facundo Mena and Tim Van Rijthoven since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Facundo Mena

Facundo Mena

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Rank
389
High
127
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 20-25 4-3 16-21 0-0 0-1 0-0
2024 51-24 3-1 47-23 1-0 0-0 0-0
2023 31-21 11-9 18-11 2-1 0-0 0-0
2022 35-29 8-7 25-20 1-1 1-1 0-0
2021 29-30 0-4 29-26 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 209, Facundo will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in the Bendigo Challenger where he lost 7-6(11) 4-6 6-3 to Kopriva in the 3rd round on the 6th of January.

Mena has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Mena has an overall 345-246 record. He has a positive 50-38 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2020. See his history.

Australian Open
Mena's Record

Tim Van Rijthoven

Tim Van Rijthoven

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Rank
871
High
101
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 0-2 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 0-4 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0
2023 2-3 1-2 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0
2022 38-24 3-4 2-2 25-15 8-3 0-0
2021 37-22 13-7 7-6 16-8 0-0 1-1

Ranked no. 261, the Dutch will start his run at the Melbourne after he played his last match in the Traralgon Challenger where he lost 6-0 6-2 to Simon in the 2nd round on the 5th of January.

Tim has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of his career, Van Rijthoven has an overall 194-112 record. He has a positive 77-35 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.

Australian Open
Van Rijthoven's Record

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