Daniel Cukierman and Ulises Blanch will face off in the qualifications of the Pozoblanco Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 9:30 pm on PISTA 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ulises Blanch who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ulises Blanch is the pick to win this match.
Ulises Blanch -> 0
Daniel Cukierman -> 0
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Prediction and head to head Daniel Cukierman vs. Ulises Blanch
There is no head to head record between Daniel Cukierman and Ulises Blanch since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Daniel Cukierman
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-11 | 2-2 | 12-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-25 | 17-11 | 6-5 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-28 | 39-14 | 5-7 | 5-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-13 | 3-4 | 20-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-7 | 9-6 | 1-0 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 402, Daniel reached the qualifications after beating Alejandro Lopez Escribano 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Lopez Escribano (6-1 6-1). During the match, Cukierman scored 53 points vs Lopez Escribano’s 26. Cukierman was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cukierman bagged 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Daniel Cukierman conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 64% of his first serves in, win 88% (22/25) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. The Israeli was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Lopez Escribano 5 times.
Cukierman has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (182-109). 7-5 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cukierman has an aggregate129-69 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
Daniel’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Gurb.
Cukierman has an aggregate 21-16 win-loss record in 2023, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pozoblanco Challenger
Daniel has never competed in this tournament before.
Ulises Blanch
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-4 | 10-3 | 3-1 | 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. 424, the American got to the qualifications after defeating Vilius Gaubas 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Blanch had a good straight sets win against Gaubas (6-4 6-3). During the match Blanch scored 61 points vs Gaubas’s 46. Ulises was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Blanch scored 5 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ulises Blanch was quite efficient on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ulises broke Gaubas 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Blanch has an overall 15-16 win-loss record in 2023, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cukierman | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 19 |
| Pts | 53-26 | 61-46 |
| Total Points | 79 | 107 |
| Winners | 22 | 26 |
| %Winners | 42% | 43% |
Both Cukierman and Blanch played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cukierman and Blanch have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cukierman played 5 games less than Blanch. Daniel scored 22 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Blanch managed to score 26 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cukierman | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 5 |
| 1st in | 25/39 | 31/48 |
| %1st in | 64% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 11/17 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 65% |
Cukierman managed to score 3 aces . Blanch made 5 aces . Cukierman won 88% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Blanch won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cukierman | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/5 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 38% |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Cukierman broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Daniel quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Ulises was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Cukierman | |||
| Q1 Lopez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 53-26 | 53-26 | |
| Total points | 79 | 79 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/39 | 25/39 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 22/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Blanch | |||
| Q1 Gaubas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 61-46 | 61-46 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 31/48 | 31/48 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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