Facundo Diaz Acosta and Rudolf Molleker will face off in the 1st round of the Canberra Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Diaz Acosta who should win in 3 sets.
Facundo Diaz Acosta -> 1.62
Rudolf Molleker -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. Rudolf Molleker
This will be the 2nd time that Facundo Diaz Acosta and Rudolf Molleker play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Diaz Acosta (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Diaz Acosta won 7-5 6-3 in the semifinal in the Heilbronn Challenger back in 2023.
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. 95, Facundo will start his run in the Canberra Challenger after he won the title in the Montevideo Challenger after beating 6-3 4-3 ret. Moura Monteiro in the final.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Facundo won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Facundo has an overall 189-112 record. He has a positive 21-16 record on hard.
Previously in the Canberra Challenger
Facundo has never competed in this tournament before.
Rudolf Molleker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 4-4 | 6-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-7 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 201, Rudolf got to the 1st round after defeating Matthew Christopher Romios 6-2 7-61 and Alex Bolt 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Rudolf had a good straight sets win against Bolt (6-4 6-2). During the match Molleker scored 61 points vs Bolt’s 43. Rudolf was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Molleker made 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Rudolf Molleker was very effective on serve to win 93% (27/29) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rudolf broke Bolt 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Molleker started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 58% of the points he played.
Molleker has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Canberra Challenger
- Andrew Harris/Matthew Christopher RomiosHarris/Matthew Christopher Romios – Anirudh Chandrasekar/N. Vijay Sundar PrashanthChandrasekar/N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (4-6 6-4 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael MmohMmoh – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jakub MensikMensik – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Adam WaltonWalton (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Filip MisolicMisolic (7-5 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pavle MarinkovMarinkov – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (4-6 6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Alexandre MullerMuller (5-7 7-67 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Radu AlbotAlbot – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Alexander RitschardRitschard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (0-0) – H2H and prediction