Zachary Svajda and Nicolas Mejia will square off in the 1st round of the Cuernavaca Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 am on ESTADIO MORELOS. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zachary Svajda who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zachary Svajda is the pick to win this match.
Zachary Svajda -> 1.36
Nicolas Mejia -> 2.98
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Prediction and head to head Zachary Svajda vs. Nicolas Mejia
This will be the 4th time that Zachary Svajda and Nicolas Mejia face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Mejia (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Mejia won 7-6(7) 6-4 in the 1st round in the Waco Challenger back in 2023.
Zachary Svajda
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-24 | 28-8 | 2-6 | 10-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-23 | 25-14 | 0-3 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-13 | 24-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-6 | 5-3 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 129, Svajda will start his run in the Cuernavaca Challenger after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-3 7-6(6) to Schwartzman in the qualifications on the 18th of March.
The American has an aggregate 14-11 win-loss record in 2024, 14-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Zachary’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Svajda has an overall 137-98 record. He has a positive 108-60 record on hard.
Previously in the Cuernavaca Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Mejia
18 - 9win/loss
291
228
LWLWWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-11 | 10-6 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-33 | 6-13 | 18-18 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-35 | 13-12 | 15-13 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-28 | 16-10 | 5-13 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 333, the Colombian reached the 1st round after beating Manuel Sanchez 6-0 6-2 and Ryan Seggerman 6-3 6-73 6-1.
In the qualifications, Mejia defeated Seggerman (6-3 6-73 6-1). During the match Mejia scored 95 points vs Seggerman’s 76. Mejia was very aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Mejia struck 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Nicolas Mejia was quite effective on serve to win 71% (44/62) of his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Mejia broke Seggerman 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Mejia started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
His best result of the season was winning the title the San Luis Potosi Challenger where he defeated Matias Soto in the final 6-1 5-7 6-2.
The Colombian has an overall 17-9 win-loss record in 2024, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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