Juan Pablo Ficovich and Nicolas Mejia will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Pereira Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CANCHA SANTIAGO GIRALDO. 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 Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Ficovich is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.57
Nicolas Mejia -> 2.25
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Nicolas Mejia
This will be the 2nd time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Nicolas Mejia face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pablo Ficovich (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Pablo Ficovich won 6-2 6-1 in the semifinal in M25 Portoviejo back in 2019.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-27 | 4-6 | 31-19 | 0-1 | 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 |
| 2020 | 17-19 | 4-3 | 13-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 217, the Argentine reached the 2nd round after beating Elmar Ejupovic 6-3 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Argentine defeated Ejupovic (6-3 3-6 6-3). During the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 93 points vs Ejupovic’s 74. Juan was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pablo Ficovich fired 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was pretty efficient on serve to win 82% (37/45) of his 1st serve and 69% (18/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pablo Ficovich broke Ejupovic twice after converting 18% of his break points (2/11).
Pablo Ficovich has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (280-196). 5-2 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Pablo Ficovich has an aggregate261-168 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
Pablo Ficovich has a compiled 7-7 win-loss record in 2022, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pereira Challenger
The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Mejia
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-28 | 18-20 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-33 | 6-13 | 18-18 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-35 | 13-12 | 15-13 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-28 | 16-10 | 5-13 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 264 (career-high), the Colombian reached the 2nd round after beating Stefan Kozlov 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Mejia had a good straight sets win against Kozlov (6-1 6-1). During the match Mejia scored 63 points vs Kozlov’s 36. The Colombian was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Mejia scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicolas Mejia conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Mejia put 64% of his first serves in, winning 82% (23/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Nicolas broke Kozlov 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Mejia’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Anapoima.
Mejia has a compiled 7-10 win-loss record in 2022, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pablo Ficovich | Mejia |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 14 |
| Pts | 93-74 | 63-36 |
| Total Points | 167 | 99 |
| Winners | 37 | 23 |
| %Winners | 40% | 37% |
Both Pablo Ficovich and Mejia played 1 match. At the moment, Juan Pablo Ficovich lost 1 set while Nicolas Mejia hasn’t lost a set so far. Pablo Ficovich has played 1 set more than Mejia (3 vs 2). Therefore, Pablo Ficovich played 13 games more than Mejia. Pablo Ficovich scored 37 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Mejia struck 23 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pablo Ficovich | Mejia |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 45/71 | 28/44 |
| %1st in | 63% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 37/45 | 23/28 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 18/26 | 8/16 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 50% |
Pablo Ficovich managed to score 3 aces . Mejia bagged 1 ace . Pablo Ficovich won 82% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Mejia won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pablo Ficovich | Mejia |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/11 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 18% | 63% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 75% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Argentine broke his opponent twice with a 18% conversion rate. The Argentine surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Nicolas broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Nicolas was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Pablo Ficovich | |||
| R1 Ejupovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 93-74 | 93-74 | |
| Total points | 167 | 167 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 45/71 | 45/71 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 37/45 | 37/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/26 | 18/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/11 | 2/11 | |
| Converted % | 18% | 18% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Mejia | |||
| R1 Kozlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 63-36 | 63-36 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/44 | 28/44 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 8/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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