Matias Soto and Alvaro Guillen Meza will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Santa Fe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:30 am on CANCHA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matias Soto who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matias Soto is the pick to win this match.
Matias Soto -> 1.82
Alvaro Guillen Meza -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Matias Soto vs. Alvaro Guillen Meza
There is no head to head record between Matias Soto and Alvaro Guillen Meza since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Matias Soto
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-14 | 6-5 | 15-8 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-19 | 4-4 | 14-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-7 | 7-3 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-9 | 6-3 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 536, Matias got to the 2nd round after defeating Nicolas Villalon 6-2 7-65.
In the 1st round, Matias had a good straight sets win against Villalon (6-2 7-65). During the match, Soto scored 77 points vs Villalon’s 64. Soto was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Soto bagged 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Matias Soto lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Soto put 61% of his first serves in, winning 71% (29/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. The Chilean broke Villalon 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
Soto has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 65% of his matches (59-32). 8-5 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Soto has a composed35-19 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
Matias has a compiled 8-5 win-loss record in 2023, 8-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Santa Fe Challenger
Soto has never competed in this tournament before.
Alvaro Guillen Meza
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-17 | 0-0 | 21-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-22 | 0-1 | 51-20 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-23 | 1-2 | 32-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 601 (career-high), Guillen got to the 2nd round after defeating Benjamin Torres 6-2 6-2 and Gustavo Heide 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Guillen had a good straight sets win against Heide (6-4 6-4). During the match Guillen scored 70 points vs Heide’s 63. The Ecuadorian was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Guillen scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alvaro Guillen Meza lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Guillen put 77% of his first serves in, winning 67% (36/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Guillen broke Heide 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Alvaro’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Litija and M15 Store.
Alvaro has a compiled 23-13 win-loss record in 2023, 23-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Soto | Guillen |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 36 |
| Pts | 77-64 | 128-96 |
| Total Points | 141 | 224 |
| Winners | 29 | 63 |
| %Winners | 38% | 49% |
Soto played 1 match while Guillen competed in 2 matches. Guillen started his run from the qualifications while Soto had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Soto has played 2 set(s) less than Guillen (2 vs 4). Therefore, Soto played 15 games less than Guillen. Matias scored 29 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Ecuadorian blasted 63 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Soto | Guillen |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 41/67 | 87/109 |
| %1st in | 61% | 80% |
| 1st pts | 29/41 | 63/87 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 13/26 | 13/22 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 59% |
Soto recorded 5 aces . Guillen made 4 aces (2 per match). Soto won 71% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Guillen won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Soto | Guillen |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 7 |
| Converted | 4/14 | 7/15 |
| % Converted | 29% | 47% |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 5 |
| % Saved | 60% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Soto broke his opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. Soto dropped his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Alvaro broke his opponents 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. Alvaro conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Soto | |||
| R1 Villalon |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 77-64 | 77-64 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 41/67 | 41/67 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 29/41 | 29/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/26 | 13/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/14 | 4/14 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Guillen | ||||
| Q3 Torres |
R1 Heide |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 20 | 36 | |
| pts | 58-33 | 70-63 | 128-96 | |
| Total points | 91 | 133 | 224 | |
| Winners | 27 | 36 | 63 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 51% | 49% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/39 | 54/70 | 87/109 | |
| % 1st in | 85% | 77% | 80% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 36/54 | 63/87 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 67% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/6 | 8/16 | 13/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 83% | 50% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/6 | 7/15 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 50% | 47% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | – | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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