Nicolas Mejia and Ernesto Escobedo will square off in the 1st round of the Tyler Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on STADIUM 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ernesto Escobedo who should win in 3 sets.
Ernesto Escobedo -> 1.83
Nicolas Mejia -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Mejia vs. Ernesto Escobedo
This will be the 2nd time that Nicolas Mejia and Ernesto Escobedo fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mejia (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Mejia won 6-7(3) 7-5 6-1 in the 1st round in the San Luis Potosi Challenger back in March 2024.
Nicolas Mejia
27 - 13win/loss
265
228
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-13 | 10-8 | 17-5 | 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. 266, Nicolas will start his run in the Tyler Challenger after he played his last match in the Little Rock Challenger where he lost 6-3 4-6 6-1 to Wu in the 1st round on the 28th of May.
The Colombian has a compiled 27-12 win-loss record in 2024, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the San Luis Potosi Challenger where he defeated Matias Soto in the final 6-1 5-7 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Mejia has an overall 190-158 record. He has a positive 75-60 record on hard.
Previously in the Tyler Challenger
The Colombian has never competed in this tournament before.
Ernesto Escobedo
17 - 13win/loss
456
67
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-15 | 12-9 | 1-6 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-17 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-31 | 16-16 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-25 | 17-12 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-8 | 6-4 | 0-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 481, Ernesto reached the 1st round after defeating Alexander Frusina 6-1 6-4 and Andre Ilagan 4-6 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications against Ilagan, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Escobedo scored 94 points vs Ilagan’s 86. Escobedo was extremely aggressive to blast 46 winners.
About the serving games, Escobedo scored 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Ernesto Escobedo was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (46/61) of his 1st serve and 55% (23/42) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Escobedo broke Ilagan twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Escobedo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Villahermosa.
Ernesto has an aggregate 16-13 win-loss record in 2024, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tyler Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
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- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Blaise BicknellBicknell (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick ChappellChappell – Liam DraxlDraxl (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Andres AndradeAndrade (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – (0-0) – H2H and prediction