Ernesto Escobedo and Ulises Blanch will square off in the 2nd round of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ernesto Escobedo who should win in 2 sets.
Ernesto Escobedo -> 1.074
Ulises Blanch -> 8.2
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Prediction and head to head Ernesto Escobedo vs. Ulises Blanch
There is no head to head record between Ernesto Escobedo and Ulises Blanch since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Ernesto Escobedo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-25 | 21-15 | 1-6 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-17 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-31 | 16-16 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-25 | 17-12 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141, the American reached the 2nd round after beating Jason Jung 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, Ernesto had a good straight sets win against Jung (6-1 6-4). During the match, Escobedo scored 56 points vs Jung’s 38. The American was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Escobedo struck 6 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Ernesto Escobedo was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ernesto was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Jung 3 times.
Escobedo has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (236-174). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Escobedo has a compiled18-17 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Ernesto’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Bendigo Challenger.
The American has a composed 8-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Ulises Blanch
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-9 | 10-4 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-23 | 14-11 | 7-7 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 10-12 | 6-5 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 16-21 | 11-13 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303, Blanch got to the 2nd round after defeating Roberto Quiroz 7-67 6-4.
In the 1st round, Ulises had a good straight sets win against Quiroz (7-67 6-4). During the match Blanch scored 73 points vs Quiroz’s 68. Blanch was quite aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Blanch recorded 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ulises Blanch was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (44/57) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Quiroz once.
Blanch has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2020. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Escobedo | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 23 |
| Pts | 56-38 | 73-68 |
| Total Points | 94 | 141 |
| Winners | 27 | 44 |
| %Winners | 48% | 60% |
Both Escobedo and Blanch played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Escobedo and Blanch have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Escobedo played 6 games less than Blanch. The American scored 27 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Ulises struck 44 winners (60%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Escobedo | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 4 |
| 1st in | 35/49 | 57/75 |
| %1st in | 71% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 44/57 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 56% |
Escobedo struck 6 aces . Blanch fired 4 aces . Escobedo won 77% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Blanch won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Escobedo | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 1 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 1/1 |
| % Converted | 100% | 100% |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Escobedo pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The American broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. Blanch was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Escobedo | |||
| R1 Jung | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 56-38 | 56-38 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 35/49 | 35/49 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 27/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Blanch | |||
| R1 Quiroz | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 73-68 | 73-68 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 44 | 44 | |
| %Winners | 60% | 60% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 57/75 | 57/75 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 44/57 | 44/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jeff WolfWolf (6-2 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker – Stefan KozlovKozlov (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jack SockSock – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio GomezGomez – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-66 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jack SockSock – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction