Mariano Kestelboim and Nicolas Kicker will face off in the qualifications of the Asuncion Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Kicker who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Kicker is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.74
Mariano Kestelboim -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Mariano Kestelboim vs. Nicolas Kicker
This will be the 3rd time that Mariano Kestelboim and Nicolas Kicker face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Kicker (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kicker won 4-6 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in the Temuco Challenger back in 2024.
Mariano Kestelboim
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-26 | 0-0 | 37-25 | 0-1 | 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. 491, Mariano got to the qualifications after beating Paul Valsecchi 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Kestelboim had a good straight sets win against Valsecchi (6-1 6-0). During the match, Kestelboim scored 52 points vs Valsecchi’s 23. The Argentine was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kestelboim couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Mariano Kestelboim conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Kestelboim put 73% of his first serves in, winning 67% (18/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 90% (9/10) on the 2nd serve. Kestelboim broke Valsecchi 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Kestelboim has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (292-187). 11-7 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kestelboim has an overall 262-166 record in the last years on clay.
Mariano’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Punta del Este.
The Argentine has an overall 11-7 win-loss record in 2025, 11-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Asuncion Challenger
Nicolas Kicker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53-30 | 3-3 | 50-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-13 | 2-4 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-10 | 1-1 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-28 | 6-6 | 20-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 64-21 | 17-2 | 47-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 715, Kicker reached the qualifications after beating Arvid Nordquist 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Nordquist (6-3 6-2). During the match Kicker scored 69 points vs Nordquist’s 47. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Kicker scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Nicolas Kicker was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Nordquist 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Nicolas’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Santiago.
Nicolas has a compiled 11-6 win-loss record in 2025, 11-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Asuncion Challenger
Kicker has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kestelboim | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 17 |
| Pts | 52-23 | 69-47 |
| Total Points | 75 | 116 |
| Winners | 18 | 22 |
| %Winners | 35% | 32% |
Both Kestelboim and Kicker played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kestelboim and Kicker have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kestelboim played 4 games less than Kicker. Mariano scored 18 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Argentine struck 22 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kestelboim | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 27/37 | 29/50 |
| %1st in | 73% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 18/27 | 22/29 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 9/10 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 90% | 57% |
Kestelboim didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kicker scored 1 ace . Kestelboim won 67% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 90% of the points. On the other side, Kicker won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kestelboim | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 75% | 45% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Kestelboim broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Argentine was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Nicolas broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Kicker conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kestelboim | |||
| Q1 Valsecchi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 52-23 | 52-23 | |
| Total points | 75 | 75 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 18/27 | 18/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/10 | 9/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 90% | 90% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kicker | |||
| Q1 Nordquist |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 69-47 | 69-47 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 29/50 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 22/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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