Juan Bautista Torres and Matias Zukas will square off in the 1st round of the Temuco Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on CANCHA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Bautista Torres who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Bautista Torres is the pick to win this match.
Juan Bautista Torres -> 1.3
Matias Zukas -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Juan Bautista Torres vs. Matias Zukas
This will be the 2nd time that Juan Bautista Torres and Matias Zukas square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bautista Torres (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Bautista Torres won 6-7(8) 6-4 7-6(2) in the quarter in M25 Guayaquil back in 2021.
Juan Bautista Torres
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-27 | 0-0 | 44-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-19 | 0-0 | 34-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 1-2 | 33-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-23 | 12-10 | 32-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 240, the Argentine will start his run in the Temuco Challenger after he played his last match in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger where he lost 3-6 7-5 6-1 to Meligeni Alves in the 1st round on the 15th of November.
Juan has a compiled 33-27 win-loss record in 2022, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Juan’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Blumenau Challenger and the Troyes Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Bautista Torres has an overall 88-61 record. He has a flat 12-12 record on hard.
Previously in the Temuco Challenger
Bautista Torres has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 467, Matias reached the 1st round after defeating Courtney John Lock 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Zukas had a good straight sets win against John Lock (6-2 6-4). During the match Zukas scored 68 points vs John Lock’s 51. Matias was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Zukas scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Matias Zukas lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zukas put 65% of his first serves in, winning 64% (23/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the 2nd serve. Zukas broke John Lock 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Matias’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Radomlje.
Matias has an aggregate 26-24 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Temuco Challenger
- Benjamin LockLock – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nick HardtHardt – Nicolas BrunaBruna (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Wilson LeiteLeite (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Bautista OteguiBautista Otegui – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Daniel Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva (6-3 5-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Facundo MenaMena – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo PazPablo Paz – Emilio GomezGomez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez – Nicolas KickerKicker (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Juan Bautista OteguiBautista Otegui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva – Juan Ignacio GalarzaIgnacio Galarza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas FarjatFarjat – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
