Facundo Mena and Matias Zukas will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Ambato Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 3. 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 2 sets.
Facundo Mena -> 1.36
Matias Zukas -> 3.00
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Matias Zukas
There is no head to head record between Facundo Mena and Matias Zukas 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 | 51-24 | 3-1 | 47-23 | 1-0 | 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. 161, Mena will start his run in the Ambato Challenger after he played his last match in the Campinas Challenger where he lost 6-3 3-6 6-3 to Bertola in the quarter on the 7th of October.
The Argentine has a compiled 32-25 win-loss record in 2022, 23-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Facundo’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Pereira Challenger and the Cali Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 375-270 record. He has a positive 318-227 record on clay.
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
Matias Zukas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12-21 | 0-1 | 12-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-25 | 1-2 | 25-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-26 | 0-0 | 45-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-12 | 6-5 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 49-27 | 3-3 | 46-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 455, Matias got to the 1st round after beating Igor Gimenez 7-62 7-63.
In the qualifications, Zukas had a good straight sets win against Gimenez (7-62 7-63). During the match Zukas and Gimenez scored the same amount of points (69). However, the world no. 161 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Zukas managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Matias Zukas was very efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 64% (23/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Argentine was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Gimenez twice.
Matias’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Radomlje.
Matias has an aggregate 22-20 win-loss record in 2022, 22-19 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Ambato Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Ambato Challenger
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- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Cayetano MarchMarch (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Arklon Huertas Del PinoHuertas Del Pino (6-3 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Facundo BagnisBagnis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Kousuke OguraOgura (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matias ZukasZukas – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Gerald MelzerMelzer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Conner Huertas Del PinoHuertas Del Pino – Kiranpal PannuPannu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo JuarezJuarez – Benjamin LockLock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza (0-0) – H2H and prediction