Nicolas Alvarez Varona and Pablo Llamas Ruiz will square off in the 1st round of the Valencia Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Alvarez Varona who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Alvarez Varona is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona -> 1.59
Pablo Llamas Ruiz -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Alvarez Varona vs. Pablo Llamas Ruiz
This will be the 3rd time that Nicolas Alvarez Varona and Pablo Llamas Ruiz fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Alvarez Varona and Llamas Ruiz (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Llamas Ruiz won 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in M25 Murcia back in 2020.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 35-19 | 3-2 | 32-15 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 9-9 | 3-2 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 24-34 | 3-7 | 13-19 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 40-26 | 11-8 | 29-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 28-9 | 21-6 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 228, Alvarez Varona will start his run in the Valencia Challenger after he played his last match in the Champaign Challenger where he lost 7-6(6) 6-4 to Vukic in the quarter on the 18th of November.
The Spaniard has a composed 24-32 win-loss record in 2022, 13-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Nicolas’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Liberec Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Spaniard has an overall 148-111 record. He has a positive 67-57 record on clay.
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Pablo Llamas Ruiz
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 16-16 | 2-5 | 10-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-21 | 12-6 | 33-12 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 37-23 | 2-4 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 22-16 | 2-2 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-5 | 2-4 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 511, Llamas Ruiz got to the 1st round after defeating Kenny de Schepper 6-76 6-3 7-5 and Eduard Esteve Lobato 3-6 6-4 0-1 ret..
In the qualifications against Esteve Lobato, the Spaniard had a free pass after Esteve Lobato retired on a 3-6 6-4 0-1 . scoreline.
Pablo’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Mataro.
Llamas Ruiz has an overall 31-21 win-loss record in 2022, 29-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Valencia Challenger
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-2 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alvaro Lopez San MartinLopez San Martin – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction