Facundo Diaz Acosta and Ulises Blanch will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Oeiras 4 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and 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 -> 1.192
Ulises Blanch -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Ulises Blanch
There is no head to head record between Facundo Diaz Acosta and Ulises Blanch since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Facundo Diaz Acosta
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 2-4 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 134 (career-high), Facundo got to the 2nd round after beating Emilio Nava 6-1 7-63.
In the 1st round, Diaz Acosta had a good straight sets win against Nava (6-1 7-63). During the match, Diaz Acosta scored 70 points vs Nava’s 49. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Diaz Acosta scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Facundo Diaz Acosta was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 69% (20/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Nava 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Diaz Acosta has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (157-97). 15-8 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Diaz Acosta has an overall137-82 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Savannah Challenger where he overcame Tristan Boyer in the final 6-3 6-1.
The Argentine has an aggregate 18-10 win-loss record in 2023, 15-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Oeiras 4 Challenger
Diaz Acosta has never competed in this tournament before.
Ulises Blanch
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-3 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-23 | 14-11 | 7-7 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 10-12 | 6-5 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 16-21 | 11-13 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-15 | 7-6 | 3-5 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 354, Ulises got to the 2nd round after defeating Alibek Kachmazov 6-4 7-5, Javier Barranco Cosano 7-64 7-61 and Pedro Sousa 6-2 7-64.
In the 1st round, Ulises had a good straight sets win against Sousa (6-2 7-64). During the match Blanch scored 74 points vs Sousa’s 56. Ulises was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Blanch fired 2 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Ulises Blanch was very effective on serve to win 89% (31/35) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Sousa 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Blanch has a compiled 10-11 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Diaz Acosta | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 69 |
| Pts | 70-49 | 252-213 |
| Total Points | 119 | 465 |
| Winners | 24 | 98 |
| %Winners | 34% | 39% |
Diaz Acosta played 1 match while Blanch competed in 3 matches. Blanch started his run from the qualifications while Diaz Acosta had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Diaz Acosta has played 4 set(s) less than Blanch (2 vs 6). Therefore, Diaz Acosta played 49 games less than Blanch. Diaz Acosta scored 24 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The American bagged 98 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Diaz Acosta | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 5 |
| 1st in | 33/62 | 135/227 |
| %1st in | 53% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 98/135 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 20/29 | 53/92 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 58% |
Diaz Acosta bagged 2 aces . Blanch blasted 15 aces (5 per match). Diaz Acosta won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Blanch won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Diaz Acosta | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 9 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 9/25 |
| % Converted | 75% | 36% |
| Conceded | 2 | 24 |
| Saved | 1 | 19 |
| % Saved | 50% | 79% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Facundo broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Diaz Acosta dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponents 9 times with a 36% conversion rate. Ulises conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded.
| Diaz Acosta | |||
| R1 Nava |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 70-49 | 70-49 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/62 | 33/62 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/29 | 20/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Blanch | |||||
| Q1 Kachmazov |
Q3 Barranco |
R1 Sousa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | 7-64 7-61 | 6-2 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 26 | 21 | 69 | |
| pts | 86-74 | 92-83 | 74-56 | 252-213 | |
| Total points | 160 | 175 | 130 | 465 | |
| Winners | 34 | 33 | 31 | 98 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 36% | 42% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 8 | 2 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 53/89 | 47/85 | 35/53 | 135/227 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 55% | 66% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 34/53 | 33/47 | 31/35 | 98/135 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 70% | 89% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/36 | 22/38 | 11/18 | 53/92 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 58% | 61% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 2/6 | 3/9 | 9/25 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 33% | 33% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 17 | 6 | 1 | 24 | |
| Saved | 15/17 | 4/6 | 0/1 | 19 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 67% | 0% | 155% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWWWWW Tennis Scores in Oeiras 4 Challenger
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Pedro SousaSousa (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Eduardo RibeiroRibeiro (5-7 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Emilio GomezGomez (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-6 7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Hugo GastonGaston (6-3 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Facundo BagnisBagnis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (6-2 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Martin LandaluceLandaluce (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Hugo DellienDellien – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Emilio NavaNava (6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Eduardo RibeiroRibeiro (5-7 7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-6 7-6(3) 6-1) – See score progression
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Pedro SousaSousa (6-2 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (7-6(3) 6-3) – See score progression
- Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Emilio GomezGomez (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Facundo BagnisBagnis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Joao DominguesDomingues (4-6 6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Hugo GastonGaston (6-3 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Mate ValkuszValkusz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Hugo DellienDellien (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction
