Pablo Cuevas and Nicolas Kicker will square off in the 2^nd round of the Luedenscheid Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pablo Cuevas who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Pablo Cuevas is the pick to win this match.
Pablo Cuevas -> 1.33
Nicolas Kicker -> 3.25

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Prediction and head to head Pablo Cuevas vs. Nicolas Kicker

This will be the 3^rd time that Pablo Cuevas and Nicolas Kicker fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Cuevas (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Cuevas won 7-5 6-3 in the semifinal in the Montevideo Challenger back in 2017.

Pablo Cuevas

Ranked no. 184, Pablo reached the 2^nd round after defeating Mohamed Safwat 3-6 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Safwat, Pablo recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 6-4). During the match, Cuevas scored 84 points vs Safwat’s 72. Cuevas was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cuevas made 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Pablo Cuevas lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Cuevas put 68% of his first serves in, winning 67% (30/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the 2nd serve. The Uruguayan broke Safwat 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).

Cuevas has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (267-189). 13-9 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Cuevas has an aggregate 210-105 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

The Uruguayan’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger.

The Uruguayan has an aggregate 14-11 win-loss record in 2022, 13-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Luedenscheid Challenger

Cuevas has never competed in this tournament before.

Nicolas Kicker

Ranked no. 237, Nicolas reached the 2^nd round after defeating Jeremy Jahn 4-6 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Jahn, The Argentine recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Kicker scored 102 points vs Jahn’s 88. Nicolas was pretty aggressive to blast 45 winners.

About the serving games, Kicker couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Nicolas Kicker lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kicker put 75% of his first serves in, winning 76% (45/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (7/20) on the 2nd serve. Kicker broke Jahn 5 times after converting 26% of his break points (5/19).

Nicolas has a composed 8-15 win-loss record in 2022, 5-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Luedenscheid Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2021. See his history

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cuevas	Kicker
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	26	29
Pts	84-72	102-88
Total Points	156	190
Winners	30	45
%Winners	36%	44%

Both Cuevas and Kicker played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Pablo Cuevas surrendered 1 set, while Nicolas Kicker lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Cuevas and Kicker have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Cuevas played 3 games less than Kicker. Cuevas scored 30 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine blasted 45 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cuevas	Kicker
Aces	4	0
Avg per match	4	0
1st in	45/66	59/79
%1st in	68%	75%
1st pts	30/45	45/59
%1st pts	67%	76%
2nd pts	14/21	7/20
%2nd pts	67%	35%

Cuevas fired 4 aces . Kicker didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Cuevas won 67% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Kicker won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 35% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cuevas	Kicker
Won	5	5
Converted	5/16	5/19
% Converted	31%	26%
Conceded	4	6
Saved	1	3
% Saved	25%	50%
Times Broken	3	3

The Uruguayan broke his opponent 5 times with a 31% conversion rate. The Uruguayan conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. Kicker broke his opponent 5 times with a 26% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Cuevas
	R1 Safwat	Total
Score	3-6 6-1 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	26	26
pts	84-72	84-72
Total points	156	156
Winners	30	30
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	45/66	45/66
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	30/45	30/45
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	14/21	14/21
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/16	5/16
Converted %	31%	31%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Kicker
	R1 Jahn	Total
Score	4-6 6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	29	29
pts	102-88	102-88
Total points	190	190
Winners	45	45
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	59/79	59/79
% 1st in	75%	75%
1st pts	45/59	45/59
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	7/20	7/20
% 2nd pts	35%	35%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/19	5/19
Converted %	26%	26%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	3/6	3
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	3	3

Tennis Scores in Luedenscheid Challenger

• Nicolas KickerKicker – Jeremy JahnJahn (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Mats MoraingMoraing (7-6⁹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Robin HaaseHaase – Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Marko TopoTopo – Tobias KamkeKamke (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Timo StodderStodder – Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko (6-7⁴ 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Filip HoranskyHoransky – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Bogdan BobrovBobrov (7-6⁵ 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicolas JarryJarry – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Jozef KovalikKovalik – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (3-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Manuel GuinardGuinard – Julian LenzLenz (2-6 6-3 7-6⁸) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Nicolas KickerKicker (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Robin HaaseHaase – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jozef KovalikKovalik – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Timo StodderStodder (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas JarryJarry – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (1-0) – H2H and prediction