Francisco Comesana and Pedro Sakamoto will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Antofagasta Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA 7. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Comesana who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francisco Comesana is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Comesana -> 1.192
Pedro Sakamoto -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Comesana vs. Pedro Sakamoto
This will be the 2nd time that Francisco Comesana and Pedro Sakamoto fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sakamoto (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sakamoto won 6-1 6-0 in the 2nd round in Brazil F2 (Sao Paulo) back in 2018.
Francisco Comesana
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-15 | 1-2 | 16-12 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-25 | 2-2 | 57-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-18 | 2-2 | 28-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-15 | 0-0 | 49-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-10 | 7-6 | 5-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 133 (career-high), the Argentine will start his run in the Antofagasta Challenger after he played his last match in the Santa Cruz De La Sierra Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-5 6-1 to Navone in the final on the 17th of September.
Comesana has an overall 49-18 win-loss record in 2023, 47-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Vicenza Challenger where he defeated Pablo Llamas Ruiz in the final 3-6 6-2 6-2 and the Liberec Challenger where he beat Toby Alex Kodat in the final 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Comesana has an overall 216-112 record. He has a positive 205-100 record on clay.
Previously in the Antofagasta Challenger
Francisco has never competed in this tournament before.
Pedro Sakamoto
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-15 | 1-1 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-24 | 4-2 | 35-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-24 | 2-3 | 19-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-14 | 2-2 | 14-10 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 520, Sakamoto got to the 1st round after defeating Mateus Alves 7-63 6-4 and Victor Lilov 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Brazilian had a good straight sets win against Lilov (6-1 6-4). During the match Sakamoto scored 61 points vs Lilov’s 38. The Brazilian was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Sakamoto couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Pedro Sakamoto was pretty effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pedro broke Lilov 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sakamoto started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Sakamoto’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Cali Challenger.
The Brazilian has a composed 23-17 win-loss record in 2023, 23-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Eduardo RibeiroRibeiro – Juan Carlos Prado AngeloCarlos Prado Angelo (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Murkel Alejandro Dellien VelascoAlejandro Dellien Velasco – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matheus Pucinelli De AlmeidaPucinelli De Almeida – Adolfo Daniel VallejoDaniel Vallejo (6-2 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roman Andres BurruchagaAndres Burruchaga – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (1-6 6-4 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Francisco ComesanaComesana (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo DellienDellien – Gilbert Soares Klier JuniorSoares Klier Junior (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Gonzalo LamaLama (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ignacio MonzonMonzon – Facundo BagnisBagnis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Facundo MenaMena (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas FarjatFarjat – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Boscardin DiasBoscardin Dias – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
