Nicola Kuhn and Nicolas Barrientos will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Aguascalientes Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA COMEX. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicola Kuhn who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicola Kuhn is the pick to win this match.
Nicola Kuhn -> 1.74
Nicolas Barrientos -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Nicola Kuhn vs. Nicolas Barrientos
This will be the 2nd time that Nicola Kuhn and Nicolas Barrientos square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kuhn (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kuhn won 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Segovia Challenger back in 2019.
Nicola Kuhn
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-11 | 8-3 | 26-6 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-5 | 0-0 | 17-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 14-21 | 4-5 | 4-9 | 3-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-6 | 14-15 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 4-12 | 0-3 | 1-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 243, Kuhn will start his run in the Aguascalientes Challenger after he played his last match in the San Luis Potosi Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-4 6-4 to Martin in the 2nd round on the 13th of April.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 5-8 win-loss record in 2022, 1-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kuhn has an overall 130-121 record. He has a positive 74-62 record on clay.
Previously in the Aguascalientes Challenger
Kuhn has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Barrientos
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-14 | 1-3 | 17-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-10 | 8-4 | 14-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-10 | 4-4 | 3-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 8-10 | 8-7 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 374, Barrientos got to the 1st round after beating Juan Alejandro Hernandez 6-3 6-4 and Malek Jaziri 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Jaziri (6-4 6-2). During the match Barrientos scored 60 points vs Jaziri’s 48. The Colombian was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Barrientos struck 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Nicolas Barrientos was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Barrientos broke Jaziri 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nicolas started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
The Colombian has a composed 10-4 win-loss record in 2022, 10-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Aguascalientes Challenger
- Bernard TomicTomic – Juncheng ShangShang (4-6 7-64 2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Julian LenzLenz (6-2 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Yuichi SugitaSugita (5-7 7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrej MartinMartin – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steven DiezDiez – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Paul JubbJubb (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gerald MelzerMelzer – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas BarrientosBarrientos – Nicola KuhnKuhn (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Denis IstominIstomin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego BalderasBalderas – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
