Facundo Mena and Yunseong Chung will play each other in the quarter of the Cali Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on CANCHA 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Mena who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.73
Yunseong Chung -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Yunseong Chung
There is no head to head record between Facundo Mena and Yunseong Chung since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Facundo Mena
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-16 | 3-1 | 34-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-21 | 11-9 | 18-11 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-29 | 8-7 | 25-20 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-30 | 0-4 | 29-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-11 | 0-2 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 160, the Argentine reached the quarter after beating Goncalo Oliveira 6-4 6-4 and Facundo Juarez 6-4 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Facundo had a good straight sets win against Juarez (6-4 6-0). During the match, Mena scored 56 points vs Juarez’s 38. The Argentine was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Mena managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Facundo Mena was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Juarez 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Mena hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Mena has a winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (327-233). 13-14 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mena has an overall 278-196 match record in the last years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Pereira Challenger.
Facundo has a compiled 16-17 win-loss record in 2022, 13-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cali Challenger
Yunseong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-10 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 422, the Korean got to the quarter after defeating Miguel Angel Sarria 6-2 6-0, Ignacio Monzon 1-6 7-61 6-2, Mateus Alves 6-4 6-0 and Gerald Melzer 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Chung had a good straight sets win against Melzer (6-4 6-2). During the match Chung scored 65 points vs Melzer’s 54. Chung was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Chung struck 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yunseong Chung was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (34/47) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Chung broke Melzer 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Chung started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
The Korean’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Monastir.
Yunseong has an aggregate 21-12 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mena | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 76 |
| Pts | 118-90 | 273-216 |
| Total Points | 208 | 489 |
| Winners | 45 | 119 |
| %Winners | 38% | 44% |
Mena played 2 matches while Chung competed in 4 matches. Chung started his run from the qualifications while Mena had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yunseong Chung surrendered 1 set while Facundo Mena hasn’t lost a set so far. Mena has played 5 set(s) less than Chung (4 vs 9). Therefore, Mena played 40 games less than Chung. The Argentine scored 45 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Chung struck 119 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mena | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 17 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 8.5 | 3 |
| 1st in | 66/102 | 162/246 |
| %1st in | 65% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 45/66 | 119/162 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 27/36 | 40/84 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 48% |
Mena bagged 17 aces (8.5 per match). Chung managed to score 12 aces (3 per match). Mena won 68% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Chung won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mena | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 16 |
| Converted | 7/10 | 16/31 |
| % Converted | 70% | 52% |
| Conceded | 6 | 18 |
| Saved | 5 | 13 |
| % Saved | 83% | 72% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Mena broke his opponents 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Facundo surrendered his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Chung broke his opponents 16 times with a 52% conversion rate. The Korean conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded.
| Mena | ||||
| R1 Oliveira |
R2 Juarez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 16 | 36 | |
| pts | 62-52 | 56-38 | 118-90 | |
| Total points | 114 | 94 | 208 | |
| Winners | 21 | 24 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 43% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 9 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/58 | 33/44 | 66/102 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 75% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 21/33 | 24/33 | 45/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 73% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/25 | 6/11 | 27/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 84% | 55% | 75% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 5/8 | 7/10 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 63% | 70% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 1/2 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 50% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Chung | ||||||
| Q1 Angel |
Q3 Monzon |
R1 Alves |
R2 Melzer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | 1-6 7-61 6-2 | 6-4 6-0 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 28 | 16 | 18 | 76 | |
| pts | 61-41 | 88-86 | 59-35 | 65-54 | 273-216 | |
| Total points | 102 | 174 | 94 | 119 | 489 | |
| Winners | 26 | 35 | 24 | 34 | 119 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 40% | 41% | 52% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 36/57 | 51/79 | 28/44 | 47/66 | 162/246 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 65% | 64% | 71% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 26/36 | 35/51 | 24/28 | 34/47 | 119/162 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 69% | 86% | 72% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 11/28 | 9/16 | 10/19 | 40/84 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 39% | 56% | 53% | 48% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/10 | 4/5 | 3/7 | 16/31 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 40% | 80% | 43% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 18 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 2/7 | 1/1 | 7/7 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 29% | 100% | 100% | 165% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
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