Nicolas Mejia and Dominik Palan will face off in the 2^nd round of the Cuernavaca Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on ESTADIO MORELOS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Mejia who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nicolas Mejia is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Mejia -> 1.35
Dominik Palan -> 3.04

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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Mejia vs. Dominik Palan

There is no head to head record between Nicolas Mejia and Dominik Palan since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Nicolas Mejia

Nicolas Mejia

19 - 9win/loss

Hard

7-4

I Hard

0-0

Clay

12-5

Rank
219

High
215

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	44-33	18-21	23-8	3-4	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

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Ranked no. 333, Mejia reached the 2^nd round after defeating Manuel Sanchez 6-0 6-2, Ryan Seggerman 6-3 6-7³ 6-1 and Zachary Svajda 0-6 6-3 6-0.

In the 1^st round against Svajda, Nicolas recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (0-6 6-3 6-0). During the match, Mejia scored 76 points vs Svajda’s 66. The Colombian was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Mejia fired 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Nicolas Mejia lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Mejia put 72% of his first serves in, winning 65% (30/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (7/18) on the 2nd serve. The Colombian broke Svajda 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Mejia has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 54% of his matches (181-155). 6-4 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Mejia has a composed71-57 record in the last 9 years on hard.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the San Luis Potosi Challenger where he defeated Matias Soto in the final 6-1 5-7 6-2.

Mejia has a compiled 18-9 win-loss record in 2024, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cuernavaca Challenger

Mejia has never competed in this tournament before.

Cuernavaca Challenger

Mejia's Record

Dominik Palan

Dominik Palan

6 - 9win/loss

Hard

6-7

I Hard

0-0

Clay

0-2

Rank
536

High
280

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	28-30	28-28	0-2	0-0	0-0	0-0
2023	34-29	34-28	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-0
2022	39-26	38-24	0-0	1-2	0-0	0-0
2021	26-22	15-9	9-8	2-5	0-0	0-0
2020	8-12	8-11	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 386, the Czech reached the 2^nd round after beating Nick Chappell 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Chappell (6-3 6-4). During the match Palan scored 73 points vs Chappell’s 57. Palan was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Palan bagged 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Dominik Palan was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (30/37) of his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Chappell twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).

Dominik has a compiled 6-8 win-loss record in 2024, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Cuernavaca Challenger

Palan's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Mejia played 3 matches while Palan competed in 1 match. Mejia started his run from the qualifications while Palan had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Nicolas Mejia conceded 2 sets while Dominik Palan hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Mejia has played 6 sets more than Palan (8 vs 2). Therefore, Mejia played 45 games more than Palan. Nicolas scored 95 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech fired 30 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Mejia recorded 17 aces (5.7 per match). Palan bagged 9 aces . Mejia won 73% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Palan won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Nicolas broke his opponents 16 times with a 55% conversion rate. Nicolas surrendered his serve 6 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Palan broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Palan was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Nicolas
Mejia

1:0

Dominik
Palan

Rank

219

High

215

1Hard0

Rank

536

High

280

Win Loss

Mejia

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2024 2023 2022

43 - 30

28 - 30

18-19

Hard

28-28

3-4

I Hard

0-0

22-7

Clay

0-2

Tennis Scores in Cuernavaca Challenger

• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Benjamin LockLock (7-6⁶ 6-2) – See score progression
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Rinky HijikataHijikata (7-5 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-6⁵ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Antoine BellierBellier – Keegan SmithSmith (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Maxime JanvierJanvier – Aidan MchughMchugh (4-6 7-6¹ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Facundo MenaMena – Skander MansouriMansouri (7-6⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Adam WaltonWalton – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Aidan MayoMayo – Omar JasikaJasika (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (0-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Kiranpal PannuPannu (6-4 6-7⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Maxime CressyCressy – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Dominik PalanPalan – Nick ChappellChappell (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Rinky HijikataHijikata (7-5 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Antoine BellierBellier – Keegan SmithSmith (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Adam WaltonWalton – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-6(5) 7-6(3)) – See score progression
• Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (7-5 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Maxime JanvierJanvier – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Maxime CressyCressy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine BellierBellier – Adam WaltonWalton (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Facundo MenaMena (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Christian LangmoLangmo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Vasek PospisilPospisil (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Mejia

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