Blaz Rola and Juan Bautista Torres will play each other in the 1st round of the Santiago Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on Cancha 2. 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 Blaz Rola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaz Rola is the pick to win this match.
Blaz Rola -> 1.87
Juan Bautista Torres -> 1.89
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Prediction and head to head Blaz Rola vs. Juan Bautista Torres
There is no head to head record between Blaz Rola and Juan Bautista Torres since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Blaz Rola
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 25-11 | 9-1 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-27 | 5-5 | 15-13 | 3-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-12 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 40-26 | 18-12 | 17-10 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 178, Blaz will start his run in the Santiago Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 3-6 6-1 7-6(5) to Caruso in the qualifications on the 11th of January.
The Slovenian has an aggregate 0-2 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Rola has an overall 412-282 record. He has a positive 286-155 record on clay.
Previously in the Santiago Challenger
Blaz has never competed in this tournament before.
Juan Bautista Torres
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-11 | 0-0 | 10-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-19 | 0-0 | 34-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 1-2 | 33-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-23 | 12-10 | 32-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 389 (career-high), Juan got to the 1st round after defeating Benjamin Torres 6-0 6-2 and Daniel Dutra Da Silva 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Juan had a good straight sets win against Dutra Da Silva (6-4 6-2). During the match Bautista scored 65 points vs Dutra Da Silva’s 50. Bautista was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Bautista managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Juan Bautista Torres was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Argentine broke Dutra Da Silva 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Bautista started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.
The Argentine’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Blumenau Challenger.
The Argentine has an aggregate 7-2 win-loss record in 2022, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Nicolas KickerKicker – Facundo MenaMena (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-0 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Ignacio Antonio Becerra OtarolaAntonio Becerra Otarola (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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