Juan Pablo Varillas and Emilio Nava will face off in the quarter of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday 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 Juan Pablo Varillas who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Varillas is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Varillas -> 1.74
Emilio Nava -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Emilio Nava
There is no head to head record between Juan Pablo Varillas and Emilio Nava since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Juan Pablo Varillas
3 - 1win/loss
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LWWWLLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-11 | 0-1 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-31 | 0-5 | 27-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 4-7 | 23-17 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 53-27 | 2-3 | 51-23 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 51-23 | 0-2 | 51-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 207, Pablo Patino-Samudio reached the quarter after beating Juan Carlos Prado Angelo 6-7(4) 7-5 6-4 and Nicolas Kicker 7-6(6) 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Juan had a good straight sets win against Kicker (7-66 6-3). During the match, Pablo Patino-Samudio scored 77 points vs Kicker’s 65. The Peruvian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pablo Patino-Samudio managed to score 3 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Juan Pablo Varillas was very effective on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Peruvian broke Kicker 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Peruvian has conceded 1 set in this tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Pablo Patino-Samudio has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (357-235). 2-0 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Pablo Patino-Samudio has an overall 330-191 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Juan has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Emilio Nava
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-23 | 8-7 | 36-14 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-34 | 16-15 | 8-9 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-31 | 24-14 | 12-8 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-27 | 15-15 | 14-6 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-16 | 9-6 | 27-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211, Nava got to the quarter after beating Alex Marti Pujolras 6-1 6-7(9) 7-6(5) and Max Houkes 7-6(5) 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Nava had a good straight sets win against Houkes (7-65 6-4). During the match Nava scored 91 points vs Houkes’s 81. Nava was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Nava made 4 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Emilio Nava lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Nava put 58% of his first serves in, winning 66% (29/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (14/32) on the 2nd serve. Nava broke Houkes 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nava has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Emilio has a composed 2-2 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pablo Patino-Samudio | Nava |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 57 | 56 |
| Pts | 208-192 | 197-177 |
| Total Points | 400 | 374 |
| Winners | 77 | 68 |
| %Winners | 37% | 35% |
Both Pablo Patino-Samudio and Nava played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Juan Pablo Varillas surrendered 1 set, while Emilio Nava surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Pablo Patino-Samudio and Nava have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Pablo Patino-Samudio played 1 game more than Nava. Pablo Patino-Samudio scored 77 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Emilio recorded 68 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pablo Patino-Samudio | Nava |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 5.5 |
| 1st in | 112/200 | 100/177 |
| %1st in | 56% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 77/112 | 68/100 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 46/88 | 36/77 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 47% |
Pablo Patino-Samudio fired 12 aces (6 per match). Nava blasted 11 aces (5.5 per match). Pablo Patino-Samudio won 69% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Nava won 68% of the points behind 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 | Pablo Patino-Samudio | Nava |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 11 |
| Converted | 9/16 | 11/25 |
| % Converted | 56% | 44% |
| Conceded | 16 | 15 |
| Saved | 10 | 7 |
| % Saved | 63% | 47% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 8 |
Juan broke his opponents 9 times with a 56% conversion rate. Juan surrendered his serve 6 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Emilio broke his opponents 11 times with a 44% conversion rate. Nava conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 47% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pablo Patino-Samudio | ||||
| R1 Carlos Prado Angelo |
R2 Kicker |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 7-5 6-4 | 7-66 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 22 | 57 | |
| pts | 131-127 | 77-65 | 208-192 | |
| Total points | 258 | 142 | 400 | |
| Winners | 51 | 26 | 77 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 34% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 9 | 3 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 81/129 | 31/71 | 112/200 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 44% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 51/81 | 26/31 | 77/112 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 84% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 24/48 | 22/40 | 46/88 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 55% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 3/4 | 9/16 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 75% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 3 | 16 | |
| Saved | 9/13 | 1/3 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 69% | 33% | 51% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Nava | ||||
| R1 Marti |
R2 Houkes |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-79 7-65 | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 33 | 23 | 56 | |
| pts | 106-96 | 91-81 | 197-177 | |
| Total points | 202 | 172 | 374 | |
| Winners | 39 | 29 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 32% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 8 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 56/101 | 44/76 | 100/177 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 58% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 39/56 | 29/44 | 68/100 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 66% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/45 | 14/32 | 36/77 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 44% | 47% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 5/14 | 11/25 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 36% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 8 | 15 | |
| Saved | 3/7 | 4/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 50% | 47% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
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