Tobias Franco and Blu Baker will face off in the qualifications of the Bogota Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on CAMPO 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blu Baker who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blu Baker is the pick to win this match.
Blu Baker -> 1.111
Tobias Franco -> 6.1
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Prediction and head to head Tobias Franco vs. Blu Baker
There is no head to head record between Tobias Franco and Blu Baker since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tobias Franco
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-13 | 0-0 | 7-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 14-25 | 1-3 | 13-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-18 | 3-6 | 13-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Argentine got to the qualifications after beating Nick Chappell 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Chappell (7-5 6-3). During the match, Franco scored 68 points vs Chappell’s 60. Franco was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Franco fired 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Tobias Franco lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Franco put 63% of his first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Franco broke Chappell 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Franco has a unfavourable match record in the last 3 years having won 41% of his matches (24-35). 7-11 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Franco has an overall20-26 win-loss record in the last 3 years on clay.
Tobias has a composed 8-14 win-loss record in 2022, 7-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bogota Challenger
The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.
Blu Baker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5-8 | 0-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-23 | 11-9 | 29-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-16 | 3-7 | 12-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 765 (career-high), the Brit reached the qualifications after beating Daniel Salazar Martinez 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Blu had a good straight sets win against Salazar Martinez (6-1 6-0). During the match Baker scored 60 points vs Salazar Martinez’s 34. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Baker scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Blu Baker was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (20/28) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Blu broke Salazar Martinez 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Blu’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Naples.
The Brit has an aggregate 23-11 win-loss record in 2022, 22-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Franco | Baker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 13 |
| Pts | 68-60 | 60-34 |
| Total Points | 128 | 94 |
| Winners | 29 | 20 |
| %Winners | 43% | 33% |
Both Franco and Baker played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Franco and Baker have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Franco played 8 games more than Baker. Franco scored 29 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit managed to score 20 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Franco | Baker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 43/68 | 28/46 |
| %1st in | 63% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 20/28 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 56% |
Franco managed to score 2 aces . Baker managed to score 1 ace . Franco won 67% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Baker won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Franco | Baker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 56% | 67% |
| Conceded | 7 | 6 |
| Saved | 4 | 6 |
| % Saved | 57% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Tobias broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Tobias conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Baker broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Brit was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.
| Franco | |||
| Q1 Chappell |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 68-60 | 68-60 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 43/68 | 43/68 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Baker | |||
| Q1 Salazar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 60-34 | 60-34 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/46 | 28/46 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 20/28 | 20/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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