Blaise Bicknell and Valerio Aboian will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Santiago Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on CANCHA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blaise Bicknell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaise Bicknell is the pick to win this match.
Blaise Bicknell -> 1.57
Valerio Aboian -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Blaise Bicknell vs. Valerio Aboian
There is no head to head record between Blaise Bicknell and Valerio Aboian since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Blaise Bicknell
7 - 4win/loss
491
306
LLWLWWLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-17 | 9-10 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-16 | 22-9 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 13-10 | 15-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-9 | 8-6 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 314 (career-high), the Jamaican reached the qualifications after beating Benjamin Torrealba 6-74 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications against Torrealba, Blaise recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-4 6-1). During the match, Bicknell scored 104 points vs Torrealba’s 90. The Jamaican was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bicknell couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Blaise Bicknell lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Bicknell put 63% of his first serves in, winning 65% (36/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the 2nd serve. Bicknell broke Torrealba 8 times after converting 62% of his break points (8/13).
Bicknell has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 61% of his matches (92-58). 2-2 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bicknell has a compiled34-23 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Indian Wells 2 Challenger where he defeated Zachary Svajda in the final 6-3 6-2.
Blaise has a compiled 7-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Santiago Challenger
Blaise has never competed in this tournament before.
Valerio Aboian
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-33 | 0-0 | 37-33 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-33 | 0-0 | 54-33 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-22 | 0-0 | 48-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-19 | 0-0 | 42-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 478, Aboian reached the qualifications after beating Jan Henrik Paul 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Aboian had a good straight sets win against Henrik Paul (6-1 6-1). During the match Aboian scored 57 points vs Henrik Paul’s 33. Aboian was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Aboian scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Valerio Aboian lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Aboian put 68% of his first serves in, winning 60% (18/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Henrik Paul 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
The Argentine has an overall 7-5 win-loss record in 2024, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bicknell | Aboian |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 14 |
| Pts | 104-90 | 57-33 |
| Total Points | 194 | 90 |
| Winners | 36 | 18 |
| %Winners | 35% | 32% |
Both Bicknell and Aboian played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Blaise Bicknell conceded 1 set while Valerio Aboian hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bicknell has played 1 set more than Aboian (3 vs 2). Therefore, Bicknell played 16 games more than Aboian. Blaise scored 36 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Aboian scored 18 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bicknell | Aboian |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 55/88 | 30/44 |
| %1st in | 63% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 36/55 | 18/30 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 10/14 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 71% |
Bicknell didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Aboian managed to score 1 ace . Bicknell won 65% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Aboian won 60% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bicknell | Aboian |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 6 |
| Converted | 8/13 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 62% | 67% |
| Conceded | 8 | 5 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
Bicknell broke his opponent 8 times with a 62% conversion rate. The Jamaican lost his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Valerio broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Bicknell | |||
| Q1 Torrealba |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 104-90 | 104-90 | |
| Total points | 194 | 194 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 55/88 | 55/88 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/55 | 36/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 18/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 8 | 8 | |
| Converted | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| Converted % | 62% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 4/8 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Aboian | |||
| Q1 Henrik |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 57-33 | 57-33 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 18/30 | 18/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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