Juan Pablo Ficovich and Steven Diez will square off in the 2^nd round of the Iasi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Steven Diez who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Steven Diez is the pick to win this match.
Steven Diez -> 1.87
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Steven Diez

There is no head to head record between Juan Pablo Ficovich and Steven Diez since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Juan Pablo Ficovich

Ranked no. 249, Juan reached the 2^nd round after defeating Radu Albot 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Albot (6-3 6-3). During the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 56 points vs Albot’s 37. Pablo Ficovich was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Pablo Ficovich fired 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was very efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Juan broke Albot 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Pablo Ficovich has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (315-237). 3-7 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Pablo Ficovich has an aggregate 282-188 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

The Argentine’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Leon Challenger.

Juan has an overall 10-16 win-loss record in 2023, 3-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Iasi Challenger

Pablo Ficovich has never competed in this tournament before.

Steven Diez

Ranked no. 278, Steven got to the 2^nd round after defeating Alex Marti Pujolras 6-1 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Steven had a good straight sets win against Marti Pujolras (6-1 6-1). During the match Diez scored 53 points vs Marti Pujolras’s 21. The Canadian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Diez was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Steven Diez conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Diez put 79% of his first serves in, winning 87% (26/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (3/8) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Marti Pujolras 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

The Canadian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Torello.

Diez has a compiled 15-21 win-loss record in 2023, 12-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Pablo Ficovich	Diez
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	14
Pts	56-37	53-21
Total Points	93	74
Winners	27	26
%Winners	48%	49%

Both Pablo Ficovich and Diez played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pablo Ficovich and Diez have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Pablo Ficovich played 4 games more than Diez. The Argentine scored 27 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Canadian managed to score 26 winners (49%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Pablo Ficovich	Diez
Aces	7	0
Avg per match	7	0
1st in	34/51	30/38
%1st in	67%	79%
1st pts	27/34	26/30
%1st pts	79%	87%
2nd pts	9/17	3/8
%2nd pts	53%	38%

Pablo Ficovich fired 7 aces . Diez didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Pablo Ficovich won 79% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Diez won 87% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Pablo Ficovich	Diez
Won	4	5
Converted	4/5	5/7
% Converted	80%	71%
Conceded	2	1
Saved	1	1
% Saved	50%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Juan broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Pablo Ficovich surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Steven broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Canadian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Pablo Ficovich
	R1 Albot	Total
Score	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	56-37	56-37
Total points	93	93
Winners	27	27
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	34/51	34/51
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	27/34	27/34
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	9/17	9/17
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Diez
	R1 Marti	Total
Score	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	53-21	53-21
Total points	74	74
Winners	26	26
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	30/38	30/38
% 1st in	79%	79%
1st pts	26/30	26/30
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	3/8	3/8
% 2nd pts	38%	38%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/7
Converted %	71%	71%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Iasi Challenger

• Pablo CuevasCuevas – Gauthier OnclinOnclin (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Zsombor PirosPiros (6-2 3-6 7-6²) – See score progression
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Andrey ChepelevChepelev (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Sebastian GimaGima (7-6³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Hugo GastonGaston – Miljan ZekicZekic (4-6 0-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Valentin VacherotVacherot – Joris De LooreDe Loore (7-6⁴ 7-5) – See score progression
• Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Juan Bautista OteguiBautista Otegui (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Steven DiezDiez – Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Cristian GarinGarin – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Jakub MensikMensik – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Aziz DougazDougaz (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Kalin IvanovskiIvanovski – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (4-6 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Tomas MachacMachac (6-7⁵ 6-4 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (6-4 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Steven DiezDiez – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Valentin VacherotVacherot – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hugo GastonGaston – Pablo CuevasCuevas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (0-0) – H2H and prediction