Tim Handel and Matias Soto will face off in the 1st round of the Indian Wells 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on PC5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tim Handel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tim Handel is the pick to win this match.
Tim Handel -> 1.61
Matias Soto -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Tim Handel vs. Matias Soto
There is no head to head record between Tim Handel and Matias Soto since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tim Handel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-26 | 2-2 | 22-19 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-30 | 2-3 | 41-19 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 3-4 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 5-2 | 22-15 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 9-9 | 31-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-5 | 7-2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 387, the German will start his run in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Indian Wells 1 Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-6(6) to Kwiatkowski in the 2nd round on the 18th of January.
Handel has an overall 2-2 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Tim has an overall 153-96 record. He has a positive 31-25 record on hard.
Previously in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Matias Soto
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 57-27 | 10-9 | 43-17 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-19 | 4-4 | 14-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-7 | 7-3 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-9 | 6-3 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 666, Soto got to the 1st round after defeating Kyle Kang 7-66 6-3 and Thomas Fancutt 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Chilean had a good straight sets win against Fancutt (7-5 7-5). During the match Soto scored 76 points vs Fancutt’s 70. Soto was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Soto scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Matias Soto lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Soto put 63% of his first serves in, winning 74% (37/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. The Chilean broke Fancutt 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Matias started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Matias has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Evan ZhuZhu (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Blaise BicknellBicknell – Aidan MayoMayo (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Omni KumarKumar (7-62 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Gabriel DebruDebru (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon HoltHolt – Ryan SeggermanSeggerman (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Trevor SvajdaSvajda – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-6 7-64 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Maxwell MckennonMckennon (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tim HandelHandel – Matias SotoSoto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paul JubbJubb – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andre IlaganIlagan – Federico GaioGaio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
