Federico Coria and Tomas Barrios Vera will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Guayaquil Challenger for the 5^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.86
Federico Coria -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Federico Coria vs. Tomas Barrios Vera

This will be the 5^th time that Federico Coria and Tomas Barrios Vera face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Coria and Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Coria won 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in the Concepcion Challenger back in 2021.

Federico Coria

Ranked no. 104, the Argentine reached the semifinal after defeating Nicolas Kicker 7-6(5) 6-4, Mariano Kestelboim 7-5 6-2 and Andres Andrade 6-2 1-0 ret..

In the quarter against Andrade, Federico had a free pass after Andrade retired on a 6-2 1-0 . scoreline.

Coria has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (441-288). 38-27 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Coria has a composed 425-239 record in the last years on clay.

Coria’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Piracicaba Challenger and the Buenos Aires Challenger.

The Argentine has an overall 38-31 win-loss record in 2024, 38-27 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guayaquil Challenger

Tomas Barrios Vera

Ranked no. 170, Tomas Barrios Vera reached the semifinal after defeating Daniel Elahi Galan 6-4 7-5, Gonzalo Bueno 7-6(4) 6-2 and Henrique Rocha 6-1 6-2.

In the quarter, Marcelo had a good straight sets win against Rocha (6-1 6-2). During the match Tomas Barrios Vera scored 56 points vs Rocha’s 30. Tomas Barrios Vera was exceptionally aggressive to blast 18 winners.

About the serving games, Tomas Barrios Vera was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Tomas Barrios Vera was very efficient on serve to win 72% (18/25) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Chilean broke Rocha 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chilean hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Amersfoort Challenger where he beat Alexey Zakharov in the final 6-2 6-1.

The Chilean has an overall 29-24 win-loss record in 2024, 24-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guayaquil Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2020. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Coria	Tomas Barrios Vera
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	7	6
Tot Games	52	58
Pts	210-176	214-161
Total Points	386	375
Winners	77	77
%Winners	37%	36%

Both Coria and Tomas Barrios Vera played 3 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Coria has played 1 set more than Tomas Barrios Vera (7 vs 6). However, it’s interesting to notice that Coria played 6 games less than Tomas Barrios Vera. Coria scored 77 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Marcelo managed to score 77 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Coria	Tomas Barrios Vera
Aces	8	4
Avg per match	2.7	1.3
1st in	116/188	109/171
%1st in	62%	64%
1st pts	77/116	77/109
%1st pts	66%	71%
2nd pts	35/72	35/62
%2nd pts	49%	56%

Coria struck 8 aces (2.7 per match). Tomas Barrios Vera made 4 aces (1.3 per match). Coria won 66% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Tomas Barrios Vera won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Coria	Tomas Barrios Vera
Won	13	14
Converted	13/36	14/23
% Converted	36%	61%
Conceded	25	12
Saved	18	7
% Saved	72%	58%
Times Broken	7	5

The Argentine broke his opponents 13 times with a 36% conversion rate. Coria dropped his serve 7 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded. Tomas Barrios Vera broke his opponents 14 times with a 61% conversion rate. Tomas Barrios Vera conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 58% of the break points that he conceded.

Coria
	R1 Kicker	R2 Kestelboim	1/4 Andrade	Total
Score	7-65 6-4	7-5 6-2	6-2 1-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	23	20	9	52
pts	85-76	93-80	32-20	210-176
Total points	161	173	52	386
Winners	29	35	13	77
%Winners	34%	38%	41%	37%
SERVE
Aces	1	6	1	8
Double Faults	2	1	2	5
1st in	46/72	55/90	15/26	116/188
% 1st in	64%	61%	58%	62%
1st pts	29/46	35/55	13/15	77/116
% 1st pts	63%	64%	87%	66%
2nd pts	14/26	14/35	7/11	35/72
% 2nd pts	54%	40%	64%	49%
Breaks
Won	5	6	2	13
Converted	5/15	6/18	2/3	13/36
Converted %	33%	33%	67%	36%
Conceded	7	18	0	25
Saved	3/7	15/18	0/0	18
Saved %	43%	83%	–	42%
Times Broken	4	3	0	7

Tomas Barrios Vera
	R1 Elahi Galan Riveros	R2 Bueno	1/4 Rocha	Total
Score	6-4 7-5	7-64 6-2	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	22	21	15	58
pts	76-67	82-64	56-30	214-161
Total points	143	146	86	375
Winners	25	34	18	77
%Winners	33%	41%	32%	36%
SERVE
Aces	3	1	0	4
Double Faults	2	1	1	4
1st in	40/71	44/62	25/38	109/171
% 1st in	56%	71%	66%	64%
1st pts	25/40	34/44	18/25	77/109
% 1st pts	63%	77%	72%	71%
2nd pts	19/31	7/18	9/13	35/62
% 2nd pts	61%	39%	69%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4	6	14
Converted	4/4	4/12	6/7	14/23
Converted %	100%	33%	86%	61%
Conceded	6	2	4	12
Saved	4/6	0/2	3/4	7
Saved %	67%	0%	75%	47%
Times Broken	2	2	1	5

Tennis Scores in Guayaquil Challenger

• Luis Britto/Marcelo ZormannBritto/Marcelo Zormann – Michiel De Krom/Vit KoprivaDe Krom/Vit Kopriva (2-6 6-3 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karol Drzewiecki/Piotr MatuszewskiDrzewiecki/Piotr Matuszewski – Federico Agustin Gomez/Luis David MartinezAgustin Gomez/Luis David Martinez (6-3 7-6⁷) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Federico CoriaCoria (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – (0-1) – H2H and prediction