Facundo Mena and Andres Andrade will play each other in the 2nd round of the Ambato Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Mena who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.29
Andres Andrade -> 3.46
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Andres Andrade
There is no head to head record between Facundo Mena and Andres Andrade since this will be the first time that they will play 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 reached the 2nd round after beating Matias Zukas 4-6 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round against Zukas, Mena recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-0). During the match, Mena scored 76 points vs Zukas’s 47. Mena was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Mena managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Facundo Mena was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (31/39) of his 1st serve and 74% (17/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Facundo broke Zukas 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Mena has winning record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (344-241). 24-19 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mena has a compiled 289-201 record in the last years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Pereira Challenger and the Cali Challenger.
The Argentine has an aggregate 33-25 win-loss record in 2022, 24-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
Andres Andrade
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 46-26 | 11-12 | 34-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 16-10 | 7-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-12 | 15-5 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 678, Andres got to the 2nd round after defeating Sean Cuenin 5-7 7-66 7-5.
In the 1st round against Cuenin, Andrade recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-66 7-5).During the match Andrade scored less points (6) than Cuenin. In fact, the world no. 161 won 115 points vs Cuenin’s. That means that Andrade was more focused during the important points. Andres was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.
About the serving games, Andrade fired 12 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Andres Andrade was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (47/62) of his 1st serve and 55% (36/65) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Andrade broke Cuenin twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Andrade’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Quito and M15 Cancun.
The Ecuadorian has a composed 18-8 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
Andrade has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mena | Andrade |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 37 |
| Pts | 76-47 | 115-121 |
| Total Points | 123 | 236 |
| Winners | 31 | 47 |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% |
Both Mena and Andrade played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Facundo Mena surrendered 1 set, while Andres Andrade dropped 1 set. Talking about their workload, Mena and Andrade have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Mena played 14 games less than Andrade. Facundo scored 31 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Andrade struck 47 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mena | Andrade |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 12 |
| 1st in | 39/62 | 62/127 |
| %1st in | 63% | 49% |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 47/62 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 17/23 | 36/65 |
| %2nd pts | 74% | 55% |
Mena fired 4 aces . Andrade fired 12 aces . Mena won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Andrade won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mena | Andrade |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 2/3 |
| % Converted | 71% | 67% |
| Conceded | 4 | 9 |
| Saved | 3 | 7 |
| % Saved | 75% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Facundo broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Argentine lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Ecuadorian broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Andres conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Mena | |||
| R1 Zukas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 76-47 | 76-47 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/62 | 39/62 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 31/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/23 | 17/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Andrade | |||
| R1 Cuenin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 7-66 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 37 | 37 | |
| pts | 115-121 | 115-121 | |
| Total points | 236 | 236 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 62/127 | 62/127 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 47/62 | 47/62 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 36/65 | 36/65 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 7/9 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 78% | 78% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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