Facundo Mena and Matias Soto will fight against each other in the qualifications of the San Luis Potosi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CANCHA 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Mena who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.5
Matias Soto -> 2.47
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Matias Soto
This will be the 2nd time that Facundo Mena and Matias Soto face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Soto (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Soto won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in the Temuco Challenger back in 2023.
Facundo Mena
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-24 | 3-1 | 47-23 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-21 | 11-9 | 18-11 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-29 | 8-7 | 25-20 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-30 | 0-4 | 29-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-11 | 0-2 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 445, Facundo reached the qualifications after defeating Alafia Ayeni 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Facundo had a good straight sets win against Ayeni (6-3 6-3). During the match, Mena scored 65 points vs Ayeni’s 42. The Argentine was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mena fired 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Facundo Mena was extremely efficient on serve to win 88% (29/33) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Argentine broke Ayeni 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Mena has good record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (304-217). 11-6 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mena has a compiled 239-167 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Villa Maria.
Facundo has an overall 11-6 win-loss record in 2024, 11-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Luis Potosi Challenger
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. 582, Soto got to the qualifications after beating James Kent Trotter 7-5 7-65.
In the qualifications, The Chilean had a good straight sets win against Kent Trotter (7-5 7-65). During the match Soto scored 92 points vs Kent Trotter’s 77. Matias was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Soto recorded 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Matias Soto was exceptionally effective on serve to win 79% (37/47) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Chilean broke Kent Trotter 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
The Chilean has a compiled 6-4 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Luis Potosi Challenger
Soto has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mena | Soto |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 25 |
| Pts | 65-42 | 92-77 |
| Total Points | 107 | 169 |
| Winners | 29 | 37 |
| %Winners | 45% | 40% |
Both Mena and Soto played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mena and Soto have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mena played 7 games less than Soto. The Argentine scored 29 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Matias made 37 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mena | Soto |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 33/49 | 47/71 |
| %1st in | 67% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 29/33 | 37/47 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 14/24 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 58% |
Mena recorded 2 aces . Soto made 2 aces . Mena won 88% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Soto won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mena | Soto |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 33% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Facundo broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Mena extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Chilean broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Matias conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Mena | |||
| Q1 Ayeni |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-42 | 65-42 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 33/49 | 33/49 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 29/33 | 29/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Soto | |||
| Q1 Kent |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 92-77 | 92-77 | |
| Total points | 169 | 169 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 47/71 | 47/71 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 37/47 | 37/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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