Facundo Mena and Govind Nanda will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Cary Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 15. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Govind Nanda who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Govind Nanda is the pick to win this match.
Govind Nanda -> 1.6
Facundo Mena -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Govind Nanda
There is no head to head record between Facundo Mena and Govind Nanda since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Facundo Mena
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 50-24 | 3-1 | 47-23 | 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. 127 (career-high), the Argentine got to the 2nd round after beating Oliver Crawford 7-64 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Crawford (7-64 6-2). During the match, Mena scored 77 points vs Crawford’s 68. The Argentine was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mena bagged 14 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Facundo Mena lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Mena put 60% of his first serves in, winning 79% (38/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (14/32) on the 2nd serve. Mena broke Crawford 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Mena has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (337-238). 4-3 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mena has a compiled 50-37 record in the last years on hard.
Mena’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Pereira Challenger and the Cali Challenger.
Facundo has a composed 26-22 win-loss record in 2022, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
Govind Nanda
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-15 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-6 | 1-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-26 | 22-19 | 5-3 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-14 | 21-10 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-4 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 367 (career-high), Govind got to the 2nd round after beating Rinky Hijikata 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Govind had a good straight sets win against Hijikata (6-2 6-3). During the match Nanda scored 68 points vs Hijikata’s 49. The American was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Nanda scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Govind Nanda conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Nanda put 63% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Hijikata 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Tulsa.
Govind has an overall 23-19 win-loss record in 2022, 18-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mena | Nanda |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 17 |
| Pts | 77-68 | 68-49 |
| Total Points | 145 | 117 |
| Winners | 38 | 27 |
| %Winners | 49% | 40% |
Both Mena and Nanda played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mena and Nanda have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mena played 4 games more than Nanda. The Argentine scored 38 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Nanda blasted 27 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mena | Nanda |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 14 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 14 | 1 |
| 1st in | 48/80 | 40/63 |
| %1st in | 60% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 38/48 | 27/40 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 14/32 | 15/23 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 65% |
Mena blasted 14 aces . Nanda blasted 1 ace . Mena won 79% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Nanda won 68% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mena | Nanda |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 43% | 38% |
| Conceded | 7 | 2 |
| Saved | 6 | 2 |
| % Saved | 86% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Mena broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Facundo dropped his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Nanda broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Nanda was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Mena | |||
| R1 Crawford |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 77-68 | 77-68 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 14 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 48/80 | 48/80 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 38/48 | 38/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/32 | 14/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Nanda | |||
| R1 Hijikata |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-49 | 68-49 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 40/63 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 15/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLLWLWWWWW Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-64 7-63) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (0-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Braden ShickShick (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Henry PattenPatten (7-5 7-68) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Donald YoungYoung (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Nick ChappellChappell – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (6-2 7-63) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Facundo MenaMena – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (2-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Govind NandaNanda – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Daniel CoxCox (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Martin DammDamm (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Ryan SeggermanSeggerman (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (0-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Braden ShickShick (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Donald YoungYoung (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-6(4) 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Henry PattenPatten (7-5 7-6(8)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Nick ChappellChappell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Stefan KozlovKozlov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Alex RybakovRybakov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Govind NandaNanda – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
