Juan Pablo Ficovich and Elmar Ejupovic will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Mexico City Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on CANCHA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 3 sets.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.42
Elmar Ejupovic -> 2.73
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Elmar Ejupovic
This will be the 4th time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Elmar Ejupovic clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Pablo Ficovich (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Ejupovic won 6-3 6-7(0) 7-6(3) in the 1st round in the Bogota Challenger back in 2023.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
10 - 8win/loss
187
125
| 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. 221, the Argentine will start his run in the Mexico City Challenger after he played his last match in the San Luis Potosi Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-1 to Kudla in the 1st round on the 26th of March.
Juan has an overall 9-8 win-loss record in 2024, 9-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Juan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Recife and the Merida Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 341-262 record. He has a positive 299-205 record on clay.
Previously in the Mexico City Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Elmar Ejupovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-27 | 7-5 | 19-12 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2023 | 30-34 | 4-7 | 16-17 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
| 2022 | 46-28 | 4-2 | 32-19 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 7-2 |
| 2021 | 34-25 | 1-2 | 23-17 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2020 | 18-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 10-3 |
Ranked no. 490, the German got to the 1st round after defeating Diego Bustamante 6-1 6-1 and James Kent Trotter 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications, Ejupovic had a good straight sets win against Kent Trotter (7-5 7-5). During the match Ejupovic scored 82 points vs Kent Trotter’s 68. Ejupovic was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Ejupovic bagged 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Elmar Ejupovic was very effective on serve to win 94% (29/31) of his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Elmar broke Kent Trotter twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ejupovic started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 61% of the points he played.
Ejupovic’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Glasgow Challenger.
The German has an aggregate 7-9 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Mexico City Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Mexico City Challenger
- Bernard TomicTomic – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (3-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-3 2-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elmar EjupovicEjupovic – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Adam WaltonWalton (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Federico GaioGaio (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Benjamin LockLock (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matias SotoSoto – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano – Skander MansouriMansouri (0-0) – H2H and prediction