Max Houkes and Mariano Kestelboim will face off in the 1st round of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 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 Max Houkes who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Houkes is the pick to win this match.
Max Houkes -> 1.57
Mariano Kestelboim -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Max Houkes vs. Mariano Kestelboim
This will be the 2nd time that Max Houkes and Mariano Kestelboim fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kestelboim (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kestelboim won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Netherlands F5 (Rotterdam) back in 2018.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-17 | 0-0 | 44-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 328, Houkes will start his run in the Buenos Aires Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Kigali where he lost 7-6(6) 3-2 ret. to Denolly in the semifinal on the 5th of October.
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, The Dutch has an overall 249-128 record. He has a positive 235-111 record on clay.
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Mariano Kestelboim
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-20 | 2-1 | 30-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-11 | 2-1 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-23 | 1-4 | 21-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 499, Mariano got to the 1st round after beating Alex Barrena 6-1 7-6(6) and Alejo Lorenzo Lingua Lavallen 7-6(7) 3-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Barrena (6-1 7-66). During the match Kestelboim scored 83 points vs Barrena’s 72. Kestelboim was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Kestelboim couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 9 double faults. Mariano Kestelboim lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kestelboim put 56% of his first serves in, winning 71% (30/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 30% (10/33) on the 2nd serve. Kestelboim broke Barrena 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Mariano has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016, 2019 and 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Gonzalo BuenoBueno – Ezequiel MonferrerMonferrer (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DebruDebru – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler – Andres AndradeAndrade (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Rodriguez TavernaSantiago – Lautaro MidonLautaro (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
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