Juan Pablo Ficovich and Pedro Sakamoto will play each other in the 1st round of the Brasilia Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on QUADRA 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Ficovich is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.86
Pedro Sakamoto -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Pedro Sakamoto
This will be the 5th time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Pedro Sakamoto face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Pablo Ficovich and Sakamoto (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Pablo Ficovich won 6-4 0-6 6-2 in the 1st round in the Santo Domingo Challenger back in August 2023.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-33 | 5-7 | 36-22 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-33 | 15-13 | 11-18 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-32 | 6-11 | 23-15 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-16 | 2-3 | 14-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-19 | 4-3 | 13-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 282, the Argentine will start his run in the Brasilia Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Rosario where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Roncadelli in the 2nd round on the 9th of November.
The Argentine has an overall 24-31 win-loss record in 2023, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Pablo Ficovich’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Leon Challenger,the Pozoblanco Challenger and M25 Trujillo.
Talking about his overall career, Juan has an overall 329-252 record. He has a negative 30-35 record on hard.
Previously in the Brasilia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Pedro Sakamoto
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-29 | 7-2 | 28-27 | 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. 377, the Brazilian got to the 1st round after defeating Gabriel Decamps 6-1 3-6 7-63 and Juan Pablo Paz 7-64 6-4.
In the qualifications, Sakamoto had a good straight sets win against Pablo Paz (7-64 6-4). During the match Sakamoto scored 75 points vs Pablo Paz’s 69. Sakamoto was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Sakamoto recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Pedro Sakamoto was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (39/53) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brazilian broke Pablo Paz twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Brazilian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The Brazilian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Lajeado.
The Brazilian has an overall 37-22 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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