Nick Hardt and Juan Pablo Paz will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Merida Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on CANCHA MERIDA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nick Hardt who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nick Hardt is the pick to win this match.
Nick Hardt -> 1.28
Juan Pablo Paz -> 3.45
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Prediction and head to head Nick Hardt vs. Juan Pablo Paz
There is no head to head record between Nick Hardt and Juan Pablo Paz since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Nick Hardt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-25 | 6-6 | 34-18 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-28 | 11-9 | 10-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 18-6 | 28-16 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-19 | 9-6 | 35-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 317, Nick will start his run in the Merida Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Santo Domingo where he lost 7-6(4) 1-6 7-5 to Hilderbrand in the 1st round on the 13th of March.
Hardt has an overall 16-7 win-loss record in 2024, 10-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Hardt’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Antalya and M25 Santo Domingo.
Talking about his overall career, The Dominican has an overall 198-129 record. He has a positive 122-75 record on clay.
Previously in the Merida Challenger
Nick has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 558, Pablo Paz got to the 1st round after defeating Boris Kozlov 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Kozlov (6-2 6-3). During the match Pablo Paz scored 69 points vs Kozlov’s 50. The Argentine was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Pablo Paz recorded 3 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Juan Pablo Paz was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Kozlov 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Juan has a compiled 5-6 win-loss record in 2024, 5-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Federico GaioGaio (6-4 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo MenaMena – Antoine BellierBellier (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rodrigo Pacheco MendezRodrigo – James Kent TrotterJames (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elmar EjupovicEjupovic – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo PazPablo Paz – Nick HardtHardt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David PichlerPichler – Christian LangmoLangmo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Louis WesselsWessels (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alan Fernando Rubio FierrosFernando Rubio Fierros – Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Jacob BrummBrumm (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan – Dan MartinMartin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Preston BrownBrown – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
