Ergi Kirkin and Juan Bautista Torres will face off in the 1st round of the Tampere Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Bautista Torres who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Juan Bautista Torres is the pick to win this match.
Juan Bautista Torres -> 1.6
Ergi Kirkin -> 2.24

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Prediction and head to head Ergi Kirkin vs. Juan Bautista Torres

This will be the 2nd time that Ergi Kirkin and Juan Bautista Torres play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kirkin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Kirkin won 6-3 6-7(3) 7-5 in the quarter in the Porto Alegre Challenger back in May 2024.

Ergi Kirkin

Ergi Kirkin

38 - 19win/loss

Hard
11-4
I Hard
1-1
Clay
26-14
Rank
285
High
251
LLWWWWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 49-30 18-5 29-20 2-5 0-0 0-0
2023 47-26 3-4 39-15 5-7 0-0 0-0
2022 34-28 3-5 27-19 4-4 0-0 0-0
2021 35-27 4-8 29-16 2-3 0-0 0-0
2020 18-8 14-3 2-2 2-2 0-0 0-1

Ranked no. 262, Kirkin will start his run in the Tampere Challenger after he played his last match in M25 The Hague where he lost 6-3 6-3

to Wassermann in the 2nd round on the 11th of July.

Ergi has a compiled 38-19 win-loss record in 2024, 26-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Porto Alegre Challenger where he beat Daniel Dutra Da Silva in the final 6-3 7-5.

Talking about his overall career, Kirkin has an overall 248-164 record. He has a positive 177-99 record on clay.

Previously in the Tampere Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.

Tampere Challenger
Kirkin's Record

Juan Bautista Torres

Juan Bautista Torres

24 - 17win/loss

Clay
24-17
Rank
280
High
226
LLWLWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 45-29 1-2 44-27 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 34-19 0-0 34-19 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 34-28 1-2 33-26 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 44-23 12-10 32-13 0-0 0-0 0-0
2020 8-6 0-1 8-5 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 356, the Argentine reached the 1st round after defeating Jeri Lassila 6-1 6-2 and Thomas Yaka Kofi Setodji 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Bautista had a good straight sets win against Yaka Kofi Setodji (6-3 6-1). During the match Bautista scored 55 points vs Yaka Kofi Setodji’s 32. Bautista was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Bautista couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Juan Bautista Torres was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Juan broke Yaka Kofi Setodji 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Argentine started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 63% of the points he played.

The Argentine’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Santos Challenger and the Lima 1 Challenger.

Bautista has a compiled 24-17 win-loss record in 2024, 24-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tampere Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.

Tampere Challenger
Bautista's Record

Tennis Scores in Tampere Challenger

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