Tomas Barrios Vera and Alexey Zakharov will face off in the final of the Amersfoort Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 3:00 pm on VAN MOSSEL KIA COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Barrios Vera who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tomas Barrios Vera is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Barrios Vera -> 1.56
Alexey Zakharov -> 2.33

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Prediction and head to head Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Alexey Zakharov

This will be the 2^nd time that Tomas Barrios Vera and Alexey Zakharov face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they played, Tomas Barrios Vera won 6-2 6-2 in the 1^st round in the Binghamton Challenger back in 2019.

Tomas Barrios Vera

Ranked no. 207, Marcelo reached the final after defeating Jurij Rodionov 7-6(1) 6-1, Guy Den Ouden 6-0 7-6(6), Bernabe Zapata Miralles 7-6(4) 6-1 and Max Houkes 6-7(4) 6-4 6-1.

In the semifinal against Houkes, Tomas Barrios Vera recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-1). During the match, Tomas Barrios Vera scored 100 points vs Houkes’s 82. Marcelo was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about the service games, Tomas Barrios Vera bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Tomas Barrios Vera was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (38/50) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Marcelo broke Houkes 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chilean has conceded 1 set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Tomas Barrios Vera has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (341-197). 15-11 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tomas Barrios Vera has an overall 256-141 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

The Chilean’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Trieste Challenger.

Tomas Barrios Vera has a composed 19-15 win-loss record in 2024, 15-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Amersfoort Challenger

The Chilean has never competed in this tournament before.

Alexey Zakharov

Ranked no. 441, Alexey got to the final after defeating Tristan Lamasine 6-4 6-4, Gerard Campana Lee 6-4 6-4, Jelle Sels 7-5 2-6 6-4, Deney Wassermann 4-6 6-0 6-3, Enrico Dalla Valle 6-1 6-3 and Daniel Rincon 6-4 6-4.

In the semifinal, Zakharov had a good straight sets win against Rincon (6-4 6-4). During the match Zakharov scored 64 points vs Rincon’s 50. Alexey was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Zakharov fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alexey Zakharov was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alexey broke Rincon 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alexey started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Zakharov’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Amersfoort Challenger.

The Russian has a compiled 31-15 win-loss record in 2024, 15-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Tomas Barrios Vera	Zakharov
Match played	4	6
Tot Set	9	14
Tot Games	89	131
Pts	328-262	454-369
Total Points	590	823
Winners	141	182
%Winners	43%	40%

Tomas Barrios Vera played 4 matches while Zakharov competed in 6 matches. Zakharov started his run from the qualifications while Tomas Barrios Vera had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Tomas Barrios Vera surrendered 1 set, while Alexey Zakharov lost 2 sets. Tomas Barrios Vera has played 5 set(s) less than Zakharov (9 vs 14). Therefore, Tomas Barrios Vera played 42 games less than Zakharov. The Chilean scored 141 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Alexey blasted 182 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Tomas Barrios Vera	Zakharov
Aces	13	18
Avg per match	3.3	3
1st in	193/295	237/382
%1st in	65%	62%
1st pts	141/193	182/237
%1st pts	73%	77%
2nd pts	57/102	85/145
%2nd pts	56%	59%

Tomas Barrios Vera scored 13 aces (3.3 per match). Zakharov managed to score 18 aces (3 per match). Tomas Barrios Vera won 73% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Zakharov won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Tomas Barrios Vera	Zakharov
Won	17	20
Converted	17/45	20/51
% Converted	38%	39%
Conceded	25	24
Saved	19	17
% Saved	76%	71%
Times Broken	6	7

The Chilean broke his opponents 17 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Chilean lost his serve 6 times and he saved 76% of the break points that he conceded. Zakharov broke his opponents 20 times with a 39% conversion rate. Zakharov conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

Tomas Barrios Vera
	R1 Rodionov	R2 Den Ouden	1/4 Zapata Miralles	1/2 Houkes	Total
Score	7-61 6-1	6-0 7-66	7-64 6-1	6-74 6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	3	9
Tot Games	20	19	20	30	89
pts	68-51	79-62	81-67	100-82	328-262
Total points	119	141	148	182	590
Winners	34	31	38	38	141
%Winners	50%	39%	47%	38%	43%
SERVE
Aces	4	3	2	4	13
Double Faults	0	2	0	1	3
1st in	44/66	38/62	61/90	50/77	193/295
% 1st in	67%	61%	68%	65%	65%
1st pts	34/44	31/38	38/61	38/50	141/193
% 1st pts	77%	82%	62%	76%	73%
2nd pts	11/22	12/24	17/29	17/27	57/102
% 2nd pts	50%	50%	59%	63%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	4	4	6	17
Converted	3/4	4/16	4/11	6/14	17/45
Converted %	75%	25%	36%	43%	38%
Conceded	5	2	13	5	25
Saved	4/5	1/2	11/13	3/5	19
Saved %	80%	50%	85%	60%	69%
Times Broken	1	1	2	2	6

Zakharov
	Q1 Lamasine	Q3 Campana	R1 Sels	R2 Wassermann	1/4 Dalla Valle	1/2 Rincon	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	6-4 6-4	7-5 2-6 6-4	4-6 6-0 6-3	6-1 6-3	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	3	3	2	2	14
Tot Games	20	20	30	25	16	20	131
pts	64-44	74-61	106-108	90-70	56-36	64-50	454-369
Total points	108	135	214	160	92	114	823
Winners	33	37	33	35	21	23	182
%Winners	52%	50%	31%	39%	38%	36%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	4	2	0	3	4	18
Double Faults	1	3	2	1	1	2	10
1st in	41/54	45/64	53/93	43/73	26/45	29/53	237/382
% 1st in	76%	70%	57%	59%	58%	55%	62%
1st pts	33/41	37/45	33/53	35/43	21/26	23/29	182/237
% 1st pts	80%	82%	62%	81%	81%	79%	77%
2nd pts	10/13	9/19	20/40	17/30	13/19	16/24	85/145
% 2nd pts	77%	47%	50%	57%	68%	67%	59%
Breaks
Won	2	2	5	4	4	3	20
Converted	2/2	2/7	5/18	4/11	4/6	3/7	20/51
Converted %	100%	29%	28%	36%	67%	43%	39%
Conceded	3	2	12	4	1	2	24
Saved	3/3	2/2	7/12	3/4	1/1	1/2	17
Saved %	100%	100%	58%	75%	100%	50%	121%
Times Broken	0	0	5	1	0	1	7

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