Tomas Barrios Vera and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo will play each other in the 1st round of the Punta Del Este Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on CANCHA 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Barrios Vera who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tomas Barrios Vera is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Barrios Vera -> 1.63
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
This will be the 2nd time that Tomas Barrios Vera and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Tomas Barrios Vera won 4-6 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in the Seville Challenger back in 2021.
Tomas Barrios Vera
0 - 2win/loss
157
93
LLWWLLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-9 | 0-1 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 4-7 | 42-22 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-17 | 3-1 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-27 | 4-6 | 34-20 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 25-13 | 1-1 | 24-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 93 (career-high), the Chilean will start his run in the Punta Del Este Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-3 7-6(8) to Mpetshi Perricard in the qualifications on the 10th of January.
Marcelo has an overall 0-1 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Tomas Barrios Vera has an overall 322-183 record. He has a positive 241-130 record on clay.
Previously in the Punta Del Este Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-17 | 2-2 | 15-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-31 | 4-5 | 41-23 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 5-0 | 26-25 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-32 | 0-2 | 39-28 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 33-16 | 1-1 | 32-13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 292, Sanchez-Izquierdo got to the 1st round after beating Juan Bautista Torres 5-7 6-3 6-4 and Orlando Luz 4-6 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications against Luz, The Spaniard recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 78 points vs Luz’s 66. Sanchez-Izquierdo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Sanchez-Izquierdo wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo was very efficient on serve to win 71% (39/55) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Spaniard broke Luz 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sanchez-Izquierdo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Sanchez-Izquierdo has a compiled 3-2 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Radu AlbotAlbot – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna – Joaquin Aguilar CardozoAguilar Cardozo (0-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Agustin TiranteThiago – Franco RoncadelliFranco (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Renzo OlivoOlivo (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Christian GarinGarin (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Mariano NavoneNavone (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
