Juan Pablo Ficovich and Stefan Kozlov will clash against each other in the quarter of the Merida Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CANCHA MERIDA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Ficovich is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.62
Stefan Kozlov -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Stefan Kozlov
There is no head to head record between Juan Pablo Ficovich and Stefan Kozlov since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
8 - 6win/loss
187
125
LWLLLWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-33 | 5-7 | 36-22 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-33 | 15-13 | 11-18 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-32 | 6-11 | 23-15 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-16 | 2-3 | 14-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-19 | 4-3 | 13-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 237, Juan reached the quarter after defeating Emiliano Aguilera 6-3 6-1 and Gerard Campana Lee 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Pablo Ficovich had a good straight sets win against Campana Lee (6-2 6-2). During the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 56 points vs Campana Lee’s 33. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pablo Ficovich scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was quite effective on serve to win 90% (18/20) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Campana Lee 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Argentine hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 64% of the points he played.
Pablo Ficovich has winning record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (309-235). 7-4 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Pablo Ficovich has a composed 270-182 record in the last years on clay.
Pablo Ficovich’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Recife.
The Argentine has a composed 7-6 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Merida Challenger
Pablo Ficovich has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefan Kozlov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-19 | 16-9 | 17-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-12 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-34 | 14-18 | 0-5 | 4-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-15 | 20-12 | 5-2 | 16-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-13 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 653, the American got to the quarter after defeating Federico Gaio 6-4 4-6 6-2 and Elmar Ejupovic 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Kozlov had a good straight sets win against Ejupovic (6-3 6-2). During the match Kozlov scored 57 points vs Ejupovic’s 40. Kozlov was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
About the serving games, Kozlov was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Stefan Kozlov lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kozlov put 64% of his first serves in, winning 61% (17/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Ejupovic 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kozlov has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger.
Kozlov has a composed 16-6 win-loss record in 2024, 9-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pablo Ficovich | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 45 |
| Pts | 117-66 | 155-124 |
| Total Points | 183 | 279 |
| Winners | 38 | 61 |
| %Winners | 32% | 39% |
Both Pablo Ficovich and Kozlov played 2 matches. At the moment, Stefan Kozlov dropped 1 set while Juan Pablo Ficovich hasn’t lost a set so far. Pablo Ficovich has played 1 set(s) less than Kozlov (4 vs 5). Therefore, Pablo Ficovich played 13 games less than Kozlov. Juan scored 38 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The American bagged 61 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pablo Ficovich | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2.5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 44/87 | 92/139 |
| %1st in | 51% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 38/44 | 61/92 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 28/43 | 27/47 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 57% |
Pablo Ficovich managed to score 5 aces (2.5 per match). Kozlov didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Pablo Ficovich won 86% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Kozlov won 66% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pablo Ficovich | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 11 |
| Converted | 9/13 | 11/18 |
| % Converted | 69% | 61% |
| Conceded | 2 | 14 |
| Saved | 1 | 9 |
| % Saved | 50% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Juan broke his opponents 9 times with a 69% conversion rate. Juan conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Stefan broke his opponents 11 times with a 61% conversion rate. Stefan conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pablo Ficovich | ||||
| R1 Aguilera |
R2 Campana Lee |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | 32 | |
| pts | 61-33 | 56-33 | 117-66 | |
| Total points | 94 | 89 | 183 | |
| Winners | 20 | 18 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 24/41 | 20/46 | 44/87 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 43% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 18/20 | 38/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 90% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/17 | 14/26 | 28/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 54% | 65% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/8 | 9/13 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 63% | 69% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Kozlov | ||||
| R1 Gaio |
R2 Ejupovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-6 6-2 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 17 | 45 | |
| pts | 98-84 | 57-40 | 155-124 | |
| Total points | 182 | 97 | 279 | |
| Winners | 44 | 17 | 61 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 30% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
| 1st in | 64/95 | 28/44 | 92/139 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 64% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 44/64 | 17/28 | 61/92 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 61% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/31 | 10/16 | 27/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 63% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 6/9 | 11/18 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 67% | 61% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 3 | 14 | |
| Saved | 8/11 | 1/3 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 73% | 33% | 53% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
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