Marin Cilic and Daniel Merida Aguilar will play each other in the 1st round of the Murcia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marin Cilic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marin Cilic is the pick to win this match.
Marin Cilic -> 1.43
Daniel Merida Aguilar -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. Daniel Merida Aguilar
There is no head to head record between Marin Cilic and Daniel Merida Aguilar since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Marin Cilic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 9-11 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 16-10 | 9-5 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 6-9 | 5-5 | 13-7 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 143, Marin will start his run in the Murcia Challenger after he played his last match in Dubai where he lost 6-4 3-6 6-2 to Auger-Aliassime in the quarter on the 27th of February.
The Croatian has an aggregate 2-2 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, The Croatian has an overall 699-384 record. He has a positive 186-108 record on clay.
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Cilic has never competed in this tournament before.
Daniel Merida Aguilar
7 - 4win/loss
342
270
LWWWLLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-5 | 5-2 | 3-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 57-33 | 17-9 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 16-13 | 20-17 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-26 | 8-9 | 21-16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-14 | 1-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 342, Merida reached the 1st round after beating Pablo De La Cierva Sanchez 6-2 6-1 and David Jorda Sanchis 6-3 3-6 6-0.
In the qualifications, Daniel defeated Jorda Sanchis (6-3 3-6 6-0). During the match Merida scored 79 points vs Jorda Sanchis’s 65. Merida was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Merida scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Daniel Merida Aguilar was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (38/53) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Daniel broke Jorda Sanchis 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
The Spaniard’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Doha.
Merida has a composed 7-4 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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