Facundo Mena and Emilio Gomez will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Santa Fe Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. 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 Facundo Mena who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.31
Emilio Gomez -> 3.25
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Emilio Gomez
This will be the 3rd time that Facundo Mena and Emilio Gomez fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Mena and Gomez (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Gomez won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in Santiago back in 2021.
Facundo Mena
25 - 12win/loss
202
127
LLWLWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-22 | 3-1 | 46-21 | 0-0 | 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. 333, Mena will start his run in the Santa Fe Challenger after he played his last match in the Santos Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-6(5) to Kuzuhara in the 1st round on the 7th of May.
Facundo has an overall 24-12 win-loss record in 2024, 21-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Facundo’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Villa Maria and M15 Santiago.
Talking about his overall career, Mena has an overall 433-307 record. He has a positive 359-250 record on clay.
Previously in the Santa Fe Challenger
The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.
Emilio Gomez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-11 | 0-2 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-28 | 8-16 | 2-6 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-26 | 38-15 | 1-3 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-33 | 25-15 | 9-11 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 2-5 | 4-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 788, Gomez got to the 1st round after defeating Marcos Lee Chan Baratau 6-1 6-1 and Bautista Vilicich 6-3 7-62.
In the qualifications, Emilio had a good straight sets win against Vilicich (6-3 7-62). During the match Gomez scored 81 points vs Vilicich’s 71. Gomez was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Gomez fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Emilio Gomez lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Gomez put 62% of his first serves in, winning 67% (34/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. The Ecuadorian broke Vilicich 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Emilio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
Emilio has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2024, 6-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Diego Barreto SanchezBarreto Sanchez – Hady HabibHabib (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres – Lorenzo Joaquin RodriguezJoaquin Rodriguez (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas ZanellatoZanellato – Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Facundo MenaMena – Emilio GomezGomez (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo DellienDellien – Wilson LeiteLeite (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Murkel Alejandro Dellien VelascoAlejandro Dellien Velasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leonardo AboianAboian – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Guido Ivan JustoIvan Justo – Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Boscardin DiasBoscardin Dias – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
