Facundo Diaz Acosta and Brandon Walkin will square off in the 1st round of the Noumea Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT HERTZ. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Diaz Acosta who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Diaz Acosta is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Diaz Acosta -> 1.115
Brandon Walkin -> 5.65
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Brandon Walkin
There is no head to head record between Facundo Diaz Acosta and Brandon Walkin since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Facundo Diaz Acosta
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-22 | 3-8 | 16-10 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-25 | 4-4 | 46-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-21 | 0-1 | 31-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-30 | 7-4 | 36-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 10-7 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 191, the Argentine will start his run in the Noumea Challenger after he played his last match in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger where he lost 1-6 6-3 6-0 to Andres Burruchaga in the 2nd round on the 17th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 139-87 record. He has a positive 17-12 record on hard.
Previously in the Noumea Challenger
Facundo has never competed in this tournament before.
Brandon Walkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-20 | 13-10 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 12-19 | 3-6 | 9-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 853, the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Louam Boivin 6-1 6-1 and Mitchell Harper 6-4 3-6 7-5.
In the qualifications, Walkin had a good straight sets win against Boivin (6-1 6-1). During the match Walkin scored 58 points vs Boivin’s 29. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Walkin blasted 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Brandon Walkin was very effective on serve to win 82% (18/22) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Boivin 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Brandon has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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