Ulises Blanch and Martin Cuevas will face off in the qualifications of the Murcia Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on PISTA 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Martin Cuevas who should win in 3 sets.
Martin Cuevas -> 1.66
Ulises Blanch -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Ulises Blanch vs. Martin Cuevas
This will be the 3rd time that Ulises Blanch and Martin Cuevas play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Cuevas (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Cuevas won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in the Guayaquil Challenger back in 2018.
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. 340, Blanch got to the qualifications after beating Aaron Cohen 6-1 7-5.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Cohen (6-1 7-5). During the match, Blanch scored 77 points vs Cohen’s 63. Blanch was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Blanch scored 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Ulises Blanch conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 6 break points. Furthermore, Blanch put 63% of his first serves in, winning 81% (38/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (12/28) on the 2nd serve. Ulises broke Cohen 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Blanch has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 53% of his matches (154-138). 1-0 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Blanch has an overall67-57 record in the last 8 years on clay.
Blanch has an overall 8-8 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Martin Cuevas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-23 | 0-1 | 30-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-15 | 0-1 | 14-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-14 | 6-4 | 8-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 409, the Uruguayan reached the qualifications after beating Ivan Liutarevich 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Uruguayan had a good straight sets win against Liutarevich (6-0 6-1). During the match Cuevas scored 52 points vs Liutarevich’s 22. Martin was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Cuevas managed to score 5 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Martin Cuevas was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (19/25) of his 1st serve and 90% (9/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Martin broke Liutarevich 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
The Uruguayan’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Antalya.
Martin has a compiled 14-5 win-loss record in 2022, 14-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blanch | Cuevas |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 13 |
| Pts | 77-63 | 52-22 |
| Total Points | 140 | 74 |
| Winners | 38 | 19 |
| %Winners | 49% | 37% |
Both Blanch and Cuevas played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Blanch and Cuevas have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Blanch played 6 games more than Cuevas. Blanch scored 38 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Martin bagged 19 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blanch | Cuevas |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 5 |
| 1st in | 47/75 | 25/35 |
| %1st in | 63% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 38/47 | 19/25 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 9/10 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 90% |
Blanch fired 2 aces . Cuevas scored 5 aces . Blanch won 81% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Cuevas won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 90% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blanch | Cuevas |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 30% | 83% |
| Conceded | 6 | 0 |
| Saved | 6 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The American very solid his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 6 break points. Cuevas broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The Uruguayan was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Blanch | |||
| Q1 Cohen | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 77-63 | 77-63 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 47/75 | 47/75 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 38/47 | 38/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 12/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Cuevas | |||
| Q1 Liutarevich | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 52-22 | 52-22 | |
| Total points | 74 | 74 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 19/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/10 | 9/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 90% | 90% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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