Juan Pablo Ficovich and Matias Franco Descotte will play each other in the 1st round of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on ENRIQUE MOREA. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Ficovich is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.28
Matias Franco Descotte -> 3.45
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Matias Franco Descotte
This will be the 2nd time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Matias Franco Descotte play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Franco Descotte (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Franco Descotte won 4-6 6-1 6-0 in the qualifications in the Cordoba Challenger back in 2014.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-26 | 4-6 | 31-18 | 0-1 | 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. 252, Juan will start his run in the Buenos Aires Challenger after he played his last match in the Temuco Challenger where he lost 5-7 7-6(5) 6-4 to Sakamoto in the 1st round on the 28th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Pablo Ficovich has an overall 332-254 record. He has a positive 290-199 record on clay.
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
Matias Franco Descotte
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 14-12 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 7-7 | 33-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-25 | 3-6 | 38-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-20 | 24-14 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 34-20 | 26-17 | 7-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 556, Matias got to the 1st round after beating Svyatoslav Gulin 4-6 7-62 6-2 and Ignacio Monzon 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, Franco Descotte had a good straight sets win against Monzon (6-4 6-1). During the match Franco Descotte scored 68 points vs Monzon’s 47. The Argentine was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Franco Descotte fired 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Matias Franco Descotte lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Franco Descotte put 58% of his first serves in, winning 74% (25/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Franco Descotte was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Monzon 5 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Franco Descotte started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
The Argentine has an aggregate 2-0 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Orlando LuzLuz (2-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Timo StodderStodder – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mateus De Carvalho CardosoDe Carvalho Cardoso – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva – Edoardo LavagnoLavagno (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
