Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves and Juan Bautista Otegui will square off in the 2nd round of the Cali Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on CANCHA 3. 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 Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves is the pick to win this match.
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves -> 1.22
Juan Bautista Otegui -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves vs. Juan Bautista Otegui
This will be the 2nd time that Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves and Juan Bautista Otegui face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bautista Otegui (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Bautista Otegui won 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in Turkey F7 (Antalya) back in 2018.
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|
Ranked no. 197, the Brazilian got to the 2nd round after defeating Malek Jaziri 6-4 4-0 ret..
In the 1st round, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves had a good straight sets win against Jaziri (6-4 4-0 ret.). During the match, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves scored 61 points vs Jaziri’s 47. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about the service games, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves recorded 4 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (17/21) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves broke Jaziri 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (222-136). 15-12 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves has a composed200-117 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Mexico City Challenger and the Buenos Aires 3 Challenger.
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves has a composed 15-13 win-loss record in 2022, 15-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cali Challenger
The Brazilian has never competed in this tournament before.
Juan Bautista Otegui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-32 | 4-7 | 14-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-26 | 2-1 | 43-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-16 | 1-2 | 19-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-10 | 4-5 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 596 (career-high), Bautista Otegui reached the 2nd round after beating Blu Baker 7-67 6-3, Mukund Sasikumar 3-6 7-65 6-0 and Viktor Durasovic 6-3 7-67.
In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (6-3 7-67). During the match Bautista Otegui scored 86 points vs Durasovic’s 72. Bautista Otegui was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Bautista Otegui managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Juan Bautista Otegui conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Bautista Otegui put 57% of his first serves in, winning 67% (32/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 72% (26/36) on the 2nd serve. Juan broke Durasovic once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Bautista Otegui’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Quito.
Bautista Otegui has an aggregate 24-11 win-loss record in 2022, 24-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves | Bautista Otegui |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 72 |
| Pts | 61-47 | 265-230 |
| Total Points | 108 | 495 |
| Winners | 17 | 108 |
| %Winners | 28% | 41% |
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves played 1 match while Bautista Otegui competed in 3 matches. Bautista Otegui started his run from the qualifications while Meligeni Rodrigues Alves had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Juan Bautista Otegui conceded 1 set while Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves has played 4 set(s) less than Bautista Otegui (3 vs 7). Therefore, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves played 58 games less than Bautista Otegui. The Brazilian scored 17 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine scored 108 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves | Bautista Otegui |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 18 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
| 1st in | 21/41 | 151/247 |
| %1st in | 51% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 17/21 | 108/151 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 55/96 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 57% |
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves made 4 aces . Bautista Otegui recorded 18 aces (6 per match). Meligeni Rodrigues Alves won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Bautista Otegui won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves | Bautista Otegui |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 9 |
| Converted | 3/11 | 9/19 |
| % Converted | 27% | 47% |
| Conceded | 0 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 7 |
| % Saved | 0% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Felipe broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Bautista Otegui broke his opponents 9 times with a 47% conversion rate. Bautista Otegui conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Meligeni Rodrigues Alves | |||
| R1 Jaziri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 61-47 | 61-47 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 21/41 | 21/41 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 17/21 | 17/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Bautista Otegui | |||||
| Q1 Baker |
Q3 Kumar Mukund |
R1 Durasovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 6-3 | 3-6 7-65 6-0 | 6-3 7-67 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 28 | 22 | 72 | |
| pts | 86-73 | 93-85 | 86-72 | 265-230 | |
| Total points | 159 | 178 | 158 | 495 | |
| Winners | 31 | 45 | 32 | 108 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 48% | 37% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 11 | 5 | 2 | 18 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 4 | 4 | 15 | |
| 1st in | 42/76 | 61/87 | 48/84 | 151/247 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 70% | 57% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 31/42 | 45/61 | 32/48 | 108/151 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | 67% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 12/26 | 26/36 | 55/96 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 46% | 72% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/7 | 1/4 | 9/19 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 57% | 25% | 47% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 1/3 | 4/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 33% | 100% | 183% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Cali Challenger
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Facundo JuarezJuarez – Nick HardtHardt (4-6 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Matias ZukasZukas – Keegan SmithSmith (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Mateus AlvesAlves (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Evan ZhuZhu (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Joao MenezesMenezes – Gonzalo LamaLama (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Juan Bautista OteguiBautista Otegui – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 7-67) – See score progression
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Nick ChappellChappell (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Gerald MelzerMelzer – Mateo GomezGomez (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Francisco ComesanaComesana (7-5 ret.) – See score progression
- Roman Andres BurruchagaAndres Burruchaga – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Tomas Barrios VeraBarrios Vera – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (6-2 7-63) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Andres UrreaUrrea (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Facundo MenaMena – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gerald MelzerMelzer – Yunseong ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Miljan ZekicZekic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matias ZukasZukas – Joao MenezesMenezes (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Nicolas MejiaMejia (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Bautista OteguiBautista Otegui – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo JuarezJuarez – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
