Luca Van Assche and Daniel Merida Aguilar will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Villena Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on PISTA CARLOS ALCARAZ. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Van Assche who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Van Assche is the pick to win this match.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.32
Daniel Merida Aguilar -> 3.15

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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Daniel Merida Aguilar

There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Daniel Merida Aguilar since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Luca Van Assche

Ranked no. 111, Luca will start his run in the Villena Challenger after he played his last match in the Orleans Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-3 6-1 to Gojo in the 1^st round on the 23^rd of September.

Van Assche has an overall 25-29 win-loss record in 2024, 14-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Van Assche’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger and the Heilbronn Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Van Assche has an overall 147-116 record. He has a negative 18-24 record on hard.

Previously in the Villena Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Daniel Merida Aguilar

Ranked no. 333 (career-high), the Spaniard got to the 1^st

round after defeating Mees Rottgering 6-4 6-2 and Laurent Lokoli 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Lokoli (6-2 6-4). During the match Merida Aguilar scored 63 points vs Lokoli’s 45. Daniel was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Merida Aguilar wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Daniel Merida Aguilar lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Merida Aguilar put 74% of his first serves in, winning 71% (25/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Daniel broke Lokoli 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Spaniard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.

The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Antalya,M25 Santander,M25 Oviedo and M15 Madrid.

Daniel has a compiled 52-27 win-loss record in 2024, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Villena Challenger

• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Nerman FaticFatic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jerome KymKym – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Cezar CretuCretu (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jules MarieMarie – Benoit PairePaire (1-6 7-6² 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Jules MarieMarie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lukas KleinKlein – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Giovanni FonioFonio (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jakub PaulPaul – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – H2H and prediction