Juan Pablo Ficovich and Karue Sell will square off in the 2^nd round of the Las Vegas Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karue Sell who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karue Sell is the pick to win this match.
Karue Sell -> 1.7
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Karue Sell

This will be the 2^nd time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Karue Sell square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sell (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Sell won 6-4 6-0 in the quarter in the Bogota Challenger back in August 2024.

Juan Pablo Ficovich

Ranked no. 270, Juan got to the 2^nd round after defeating Collin Altamirano 6-3 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Juan had a good straight sets win against Altamirano (6-3 7-5). During the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 71 points vs Altamirano’s 56. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Regarding the service games, Pablo Ficovich bagged 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Juan Pablo Ficovich lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Pablo Ficovich put 63% of his first serves in, winning 76% (32/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Pablo Ficovich broke Altamirano 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Pablo Ficovich has good match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (332-253). 4-5 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Pablo Ficovich has an overall 34-38 match record in the last years on hard.

Juan’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Recife,the Merida Challenger and the Concepcion Challenger.

The Argentine has an aggregate 30-24 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Las Vegas Challenger

Karue Sell

Ranked no. 330, Karue reached the 2^nd round after beating Strong Kirchheimer 6-1 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Sell had a good straight sets win against Kirchheimer (6-1 6-2). During the match Sell scored 61 points vs Kirchheimer’s 33. Karue was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Talking about serving, Sell scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Karue Sell was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 82% (18/22) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Karue broke Kirchheimer 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

The Brazilian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Ithaca,M15 San Diego and M25 Londrina.

Karue has a compiled 44-13 win-loss record in 2024, 20-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Pablo Ficovich	Sell
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	15
Pts	71-56	61-33
Total Points	127	94
Winners	32	18
%Winners	45%	30%

Both Pablo Ficovich and Sell played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pablo Ficovich and Sell have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Pablo Ficovich played 6 games more than Sell. Juan scored 32 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Sell blasted 18 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Pablo Ficovich	Sell
Aces	11	1
Avg per match	11	1
1st in	42/67	22/37
%1st in	63%	59%
1st pts	32/42	18/22
%1st pts	76%	82%
2nd pts	12/25	11/15
%2nd pts	48%	73%

Pablo Ficovich fired 11 aces . Sell fired 1 ace . Pablo Ficovich won 76% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Sell won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Pablo Ficovich	Sell
Won	4	5
Converted	4/9	5/11
% Converted	44%	45%
Conceded	6	2
Saved	4	2
% Saved	67%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

Juan broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Juan dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Karue broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Brazilian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Pablo Ficovich
	R1 Altamirano	Total
Score	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	71-56	71-56
Total points	127	127
Winners	32	32
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	42/67	42/67
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	32/42	32/42
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	12/25	12/25
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Sell
	R1 Kirchheimer	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	61-33	61-33
Total points	94	94
Winners	18	18
%Winners	30%	30%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	22/37	22/37
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	18/22	18/22
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	11/15	11/15
% 2nd pts	73%	73%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/11	5/11
Converted %	45%	45%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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