Facundo Diaz Acosta and Pedro Sakamoto will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Montevideo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. 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 Facundo Diaz Acosta who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Diaz Acosta is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Diaz Acosta -> 1.32
Pedro Sakamoto -> 3.16
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Pedro Sakamoto
This will be the 2nd time that Facundo Diaz Acosta and Pedro Sakamoto clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Diaz Acosta (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Diaz Acosta won 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Blumenau Challenger back in 2022.
Facundo Diaz Acosta
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 2-4 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-25 | 4-4 | 46-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-21 | 0-1 | 31-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-30 | 7-4 | 36-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 10-7 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 111, Diaz Acosta reached the 2nd round after beating Alessandro Giannessi 6-1 7-5.
In the 1st round, Diaz Acosta had a good straight sets win against Giannessi (6-1 7-5). During the match, Diaz Acosta scored 63 points vs Giannessi’s 44. Facundo was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Diaz Acosta scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Facundo Diaz Acosta lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Diaz Acosta put 70% of his first serves in, winning 66% (25/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Giannessi 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Diaz Acosta has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (185-112). 42-20 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Diaz Acosta has an aggregate164-94 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Savannah Challenger where he beat Tristan Boyer in the final 6-3 6-1 and the Oeiras 4 Challenger where he defeated Aleksandar Vukic in the final 6-4 6-3 and the Milan Challenger where he defeated Matteo Gigante in the final 6-3 6-3.
Facundo has a compiled 46-25 win-loss record in 2023, 42-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
Pedro Sakamoto
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-11 | 1-1 | 11-10 | 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. 411, Pedro reached the 2nd round after defeating Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida 6-2 2-6 6-2, Valentin Vacherot 6-3 6-0 and Franco Agamenone 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Brazilian had a good straight sets win against Agamenone (6-4 6-1). During the match Sakamoto scored 62 points vs Agamenone’s 49. Sakamoto was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Sakamoto wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Pedro Sakamoto lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sakamoto put 65% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Sakamoto broke Agamenone 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Sakamoto’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Lajeado.
Sakamoto has an aggregate 35-21 win-loss record in 2023, 35-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Diaz Acosta | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 56 |
| Pts | 63-44 | 206-163 |
| Total Points | 107 | 369 |
| Winners | 25 | 74 |
| %Winners | 40% | 36% |
Diaz Acosta played 1 match while Sakamoto competed in 3 matches. Sakamoto started his run from the qualifications while Diaz Acosta had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Pedro Sakamoto lost 1 set while Facundo Diaz Acosta hasn’t dropped a set so far. Diaz Acosta has played 5 set(s) less than Sakamoto (2 vs 7). Therefore, Diaz Acosta played 37 games less than Sakamoto. The Argentine scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Brazilian fired 74 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Diaz Acosta | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0.7 |
| 1st in | 38/54 | 127/197 |
| %1st in | 70% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 25/38 | 74/127 |
| %1st pts | 66% | 58% |
| 2nd pts | 7/16 | 34/70 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 49% |
Diaz Acosta struck 1 ace . Sakamoto also struck 2 aces (0.7 per match). Diaz Acosta won 66% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Sakamoto won 58% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Diaz Acosta | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 19 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 19/26 |
| % Converted | 67% | 73% |
| Conceded | 4 | 25 |
| Saved | 1 | 16 |
| % Saved | 25% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 9 |
Diaz Acosta broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. The Brazilian broke his opponents 19 times with a 73% conversion rate. Pedro conceded his serve 9 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Diaz Acosta | |||
| R1 Giannessi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-44 | 63-44 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 38/54 | 38/54 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 25/38 | 25/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/16 | 7/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/4 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 25% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Sakamoto | |||||
| Q1 Pucinelli De Almeida |
Q3 Vacherot |
R1 Agamenone |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 2-6 6-2 | 6-3 6-0 | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 15 | 17 | 56 | |
| pts | 85-79 | 59-35 | 62-49 | 206-163 | |
| Total points | 164 | 94 | 111 | 369 | |
| Winners | 28 | 19 | 27 | 74 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 32% | 44% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 52/89 | 35/46 | 40/62 | 127/197 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 76% | 65% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 28/52 | 19/35 | 27/40 | 74/127 | |
| % 1st pts | 54% | 54% | 68% | 58% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/37 | 7/11 | 11/22 | 34/70 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 64% | 50% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 8 | 7 | 4 | 19 | |
| Converted | 8/10 | 7/9 | 4/7 | 19/26 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 78% | 57% | 73% | |
| Conceded | 17 | 5 | 3 | 25 | |
| Saved | 11/17 | 3/5 | 2/3 | 16 | |
| Saved % | 65% | 60% | 67% | 192% | |
| Times Broken | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |
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