Mohamed Safwat and Juan Pablo Paz will face off in the 2nd round of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am on CENTER. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Paz who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Paz is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Paz -> 1.87
Mohamed Safwat -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Mohamed Safwat vs. Juan Pablo Paz
This will be the 3rd time that Mohamed Safwat and Juan Pablo Paz fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Safwat and Pablo Paz (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Pablo Paz won 7-6(9) 6-1 in the 1st round in the Kigali 1 Challenger back in February 2024.
Mohamed Safwat
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-24 | 25-8 | 15-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 61-28 | 36-10 | 24-16 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-24 | 2-6 | 22-15 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-24 | 1-2 | 5-14 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-16 | 11-9 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 369, Mohamed got to the 2nd round after beating Max Houkes 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Mohamed had a good straight sets win against Houkes (6-2 6-4). During the match, Safwat scored 60 points vs Houkes’s 47. Safwat was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Safwat struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Mohamed Safwat was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Safwat broke Houkes 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Safwat has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (341-250). 3-2 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Safwat has a compiled 137-120 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Egyptian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
Safwat has a compiled 7-5 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
Juan Pablo Paz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-27 | 3-2 | 35-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 1-2 | 43-31 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-30 | 0-1 | 46-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 50-32 | 0-0 | 50-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-15 | 4-5 | 24-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 574, Pablo Paz reached the 2nd round after beating Yshai Oliel 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Juan had a good straight sets win against Oliel (6-2 6-2). During the match Pablo Paz scored 60 points vs Oliel’s 43. Pablo Paz was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Pablo Paz scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Juan Pablo Paz was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pablo Paz broke Oliel 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
The Argentine has an overall 4-5 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Safwat | Pablo Paz |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 |
| Pts | 60-47 | 60-43 |
| Total Points | 107 | 103 |
| Winners | 26 | 23 |
| %Winners | 43% | 38% |
Both Safwat and Pablo Paz played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Safwat and Pablo Paz have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Safwat played 2 games more than Pablo Paz. Mohamed scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Pablo Paz blasted 23 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Safwat | Pablo Paz |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 32/55 | 30/47 |
| %1st in | 58% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 23/30 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 11/17 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 65% |
Safwat struck 3 aces . Pablo Paz made 1 ace . Safwat won 81% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Pablo Paz won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Safwat | Pablo Paz |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 60% | 57% |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Safwat broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Safwat pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. Pablo Paz broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Juan was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Safwat | |||
| R1 Houkes |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-47 | 60-47 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/55 | 32/55 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Pablo Paz | |||
| R1 Oliel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-43 | 60-43 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/47 | 30/47 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWLWLWW Tennis Scores in Kigali 2 Challenger
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Max HoukesHoukes (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Bogdan BobrovBobrov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Florent BaxBax (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Noah SchachterSchachter (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Jaycer LyeonsLyeons (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Damien WengerWenger – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Ernest HabiyambereHabiyambere (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Jacob BrummBrumm (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo PazPablo Paz – Yshai OlielOliel (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Aziz OuakaaOuakaa – Guy Orly IradukundaOrly Iradukunda (4-6 6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Joshua SheehySheehy (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Clement TaburTabur – Emilien VoisinVoisin (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Noah SchachterSchachter (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Jacob BrummBrumm (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Florent BaxBax (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Ernest HabiyambereHabiyambere (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Thomas FancuttFancutt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo PazPablo Paz – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Akram El SallalyEl Sallaly – David PichlerPichler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Damien WengerWenger – Aziz OuakaaOuakaa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement TaburTabur – Hernan CasanovaCasanova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
