Facundo Juarez and Blu Baker will face off in the qualifications of the Santo Domingo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:00 pm on ESTADIO MITUR. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Juarez who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Juarez is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Juarez -> 1.21
Blu Baker -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Juarez vs. Blu Baker
There is no head to head record between Facundo Juarez and Blu Baker since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Facundo Juarez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-10 | 0-0 | 33-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-20 | 0-0 | 22-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-24 | 0-1 | 28-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 65-30 | 0-1 | 65-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-5 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 337, Juarez reached the qualifications after defeating Blaise Bicknell 3-6 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications against Bicknell, Juarez recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 6-3). During the match, Juarez scored 76 points vs Bicknell’s 59. The Argentine was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Juarez couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Facundo Juarez lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Juarez put 85% of his first serves in, winning 78% (40/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (4/9) on the 2nd serve. Juarez broke Bicknell 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Juarez has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (206-119). 20-17 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Juarez has an overall198-110 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
Juarez has an overall 20-18 win-loss record in 2022, 20-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Santo Domingo Challenger
Facundo 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. 713, the Brit reached the qualifications after beating Juan Sebastian Gomez 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Sebastian Gomez (6-1 6-3). During the match Baker scored 62 points vs Sebastian Gomez’s 44. Baker was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Baker couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Blu Baker lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Baker put 53% of his first serves in, winning 74% (20/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (10/24) on the 2nd serve. Baker broke Sebastian Gomez 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
The Brit’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Naples.
Baker has a composed 25-15 win-loss record in 2022, 24-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Juarez | Baker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 16 |
| Pts | 76-59 | 62-44 |
| Total Points | 135 | 106 |
| Winners | 40 | 20 |
| %Winners | 53% | 32% |
Both Juarez and Baker played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Facundo Juarez conceded 1 set while Blu Baker hasn’t lost a set so far. Juarez has played 1 set more than Baker (3 vs 2). Therefore, Juarez played 9 games more than Baker. Facundo scored 40 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit recorded 20 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Juarez | Baker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 51/60 | 27/51 |
| %1st in | 85% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 20/27 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 4/9 | 10/24 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 42% |
Juarez didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Baker also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Juarez won 78% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Baker won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Juarez | Baker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 63% | 67% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Juarez broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Juarez surrendered his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Brit broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Blu conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Juarez | |||
| Q1 Bicknell |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 76-59 | 76-59 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 51/60 | 51/60 | |
| % 1st in | 85% | 85% | |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 40/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Baker | |||
| Q1 Sebastian Gomez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 62-44 | 62-44 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 27/51 | 27/51 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 20/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/24 | 10/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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