Nicolas Zanellato and Nicolas Buitrago will square off in the qualifications of the Medellin Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on CANCHA ESTADIO. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Zanellato who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Zanellato is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Zanellato -> 1.33
Nicolas Buitrago -> 3.125
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Zanellato vs. Nicolas Buitrago
There is no head to head record between Nicolas Zanellato and Nicolas Buitrago since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Nicolas Zanellato
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-16 | 0-0 | 10-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 0-0 | 46-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-26 | 5-6 | 38-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-14 | 1-3 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 582 (career-high), the Brazilian reached the qualifications after beating Enrique Pena 6-4 6-0.
In the qualifications, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Pena (6-4 6-0). During the match, Zanellato scored 61 points vs Pena’s 38. Nicolas was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Zanellato wasn’t able to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Nicolas Zanellato conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Zanellato put 81% of his first serves in, winning 85% (29/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (4/8) on the 2nd serve. The Brazilian broke Pena 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Zanellato has a winning record in the last 3 years having won 59% of his matches (79-54). 21-14 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Zanellato has an overall73-45 record in the last 3 years on clay.
Nicolas’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Mogi das Cruzes.
The Brazilian has a composed 21-14 win-loss record in 2023, 21-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Medellin Challenger
Zanellato has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Buitrago
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-7 | 1-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 8-21 | 0-1 | 8-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-22 | 7-6 | 16-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-5 | 2-1 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 881, the Colombian reached the qualifications after defeating Come Leroy 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, Buitrago had a good straight sets win against Leroy (6-0 6-3). During the match Buitrago scored 58 points vs Leroy’s 31. Buitrago was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Buitrago struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Nicolas Buitrago was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (18/25) of his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Buitrago broke Leroy 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Nicolas has an overall 6-12 win-loss record in 2023, 6-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zanellato | Buitrago |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 15 |
| Pts | 61-38 | 58-31 |
| Total Points | 99 | 89 |
| Winners | 29 | 18 |
| %Winners | 48% | 31% |
Both Zanellato and Buitrago played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zanellato and Buitrago have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zanellato played 1 game more than Buitrago. Zanellato scored 29 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Nicolas recorded 18 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zanellato | Buitrago |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 4 |
| 1st in | 34/42 | 25/41 |
| %1st in | 81% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 29/34 | 18/25 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 4/8 | 12/16 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 75% |
Zanellato didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Buitrago scored 4 aces . Zanellato won 85% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Buitrago won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zanellato | Buitrago |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 40% | 63% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Nicolas broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Nicolas pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Nicolas broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Nicolas conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zanellato | |||
| Q1 Pena |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-38 | 61-38 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/42 | 34/42 | |
| % 1st in | 81% | 81% | |
| 1st pts | 29/34 | 29/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Buitrago | |||
| Q1 Leroy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-31 | 58-31 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/41 | 25/41 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 18/25 | 18/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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