Andrea Vavassori and Daniel Merida Aguilar will square off in the 2^nd round of the Olbia Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am on CLOTO ARENA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrea Vavassori who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Andrea Vavassori is the pick to win this match.
Andrea Vavassori -> 1.36
Daniel Merida Aguilar -> 2.94

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Prediction and head to head Andrea Vavassori vs. Daniel Merida Aguilar

There is no head to head record between Andrea Vavassori and Daniel Merida Aguilar since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Andrea Vavassori

Ranked no. 258,he will start his run in the Olbia Challenger after he played his last match in the Olbia Challenger where he beat 6-4 6-0 to Choinski in the 1^st round on the 15^th of October.

Vavassori has a compiled 17-14 win-loss record in 2024, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 242-185 record. He has a positive 69-46 record on hard.

Previously in the Olbia Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Daniel Merida Aguilar

Ranked no. 326 (career-high), Daniel reached the 2^nd round after beating Vladyslav Orlov 6-2 6-4, Nicolas Alvarez Varona 4-6 6-4 6-2 and Enrico Dalla Valle 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Dalla Valle (6-4 6-3). During the match Merida scored 63 points vs Dalla Valle’s 45. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Merida wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Daniel Merida Aguilar lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Merida put 74% of his first serves in, winning 69% (31/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (6/16) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Dalla Valle 5 times.

Merida’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Antalya,M25 Santander,M25 Oviedo and M15 Madrid.

Daniel has an overall 55-29 win-loss record in 2024, 17-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Vavassori	Merida
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	7
Tot Games	16	65
Pts	69-48	237-197
Total Points	117	434
Winners	25	107
%Winners	36%	45%

Vavassori played 1 match while Merida competed in 3 matches. Merida started his run from the qualifications while Vavassori had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Daniel Merida Aguilar surrendered 1 set while Andrea Vavassori hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Vavassori has played 5 set(s) less than Merida (2 vs 7). Therefore, Vavassori played 49 games less than Merida. Vavassori scored 25 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Daniel scored 107 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Vavassori	Merida
Aces	7	9
Avg per match	7	3
1st in	32/59	173/231
%1st in	54%	75%
1st pts	25/32	107/173
%1st pts	78%	62%
2nd pts	13/27	27/58
%2nd pts	48%	47%

Vavassori managed to score 7 aces . Merida fired 9 aces (3 per match). Vavassori won 78% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Merida won 62% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Vavassori	Merida
Won	5	17
Converted	5/14	17/25
% Converted	36%	68%
Conceded	4	27
Saved	3	17
% Saved	75%	63%
Times Broken	1	10

The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Vavassori lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Merida broke his opponents 17 times with a 68% conversion rate. Daniel conceded his serve 10 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.

Vavassori
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

Merida
	Q1 Orlov	Q3 Alvarez Varona	R1 Dalla Valle	Total
Score	6-2 6-4	4-6 6-4 6-2	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	2	7
Tot Games	18	28	19	65
pts	66-50	108-102	63-45	237-197
Total points	116	210	108	434
Winners	24	52	31	107
%Winners	36%	48%	49%	45%
SERVE
Aces	1	8	0	9
Double Faults	7	3	4	14
1st in	42/63	86/107	45/61	173/231
% 1st in	67%	80%	74%	75%
1st pts	24/42	52/86	31/45	107/173
% 1st pts	57%	60%	69%	62%
2nd pts	8/21	13/21	6/16	27/58
% 2nd pts	38%	62%	38%	47%
Breaks
Won	7	5	5	17
Converted	7/10	5/10	5/5	17/25
Converted %	70%	50%	100%	68%
Conceded	6	15	6	27
Saved	2/6	12/15	3/6	17
Saved %	33%	80%	50%	0%
Times Broken	4	3	3	10

Tennis Scores in Olbia Challenger

• Emilio NavaNava – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (5-7 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Laurent LokoliLokoli – Steven DiezDiez (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Matteo GiganteGigante – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri – Benoit PairePaire (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Sergey FominFomin (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Carlos TabernerTaberner (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Mili PoljicakPoljicak (3-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Harold MayotMayot (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Emilio NavaNava – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (5-7 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Laurent LokoliLokoli – Steven DiezDiez (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Matteo GiganteGigante – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri – Benoit PairePaire (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Sergey FominFomin (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Federico CinaCina (6-4 6-7(3) 7-5) – See score progression
• Hynek BartonBarton – Dennis NovakNovak (6-1 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Mattia BellucciBellucci – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Laurent LokoliLokoli – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction