Juan Pablo Ficovich and Tyler Zink will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Merida Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 8:00 pm on ESTADIO LORENZO MOLINA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Ficovich is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.4
Tyler Zink -> 2.77

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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Tyler Zink

There is no head to head record between Juan Pablo Ficovich and Tyler Zink since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Juan Pablo Ficovich

Ranked no. 162, Pablo Ficovich reached the 2^nd round after beating Karl Poling 6-4 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Pablo Ficovich had a good straight sets win against Poling (6-4 7-5). During the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 68 points vs Poling’s 58. Pablo Ficovich was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Pablo Ficovich struck 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was very effective on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Juan broke Poling 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Pablo Ficovich has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (344-250). 11-8 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Pablo Ficovich has an aggregate 299-188 record in the last years on clay.

Pablo Ficovich’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Cordoba Challenger.

The Argentine has an overall 12-9 win-loss record in 2025, 11-8 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Merida Challenger

Tyler Zink

Ranked no. 425, the American got to the 2^nd round after defeating Vladyslav Orlov 6-4 6-0.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Orlov (6-4 6-0). During the match Zink scored 64 points vs Orlov’s 42. Tyler was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Zink bagged 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Tyler Zink was quite effective on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Orlov 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Ithaca,the Cleveland Challenger and M15 Sunrise.

Zink has a composed 9-5 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Merida Challenger

Tyler has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Pablo Ficovich	Zink
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	16
Pts	68-58	64-42
Total Points	126	106
Winners	31	26
%Winners	46%	41%

Both Pablo Ficovich and Zink played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pablo Ficovich and Zink have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Pablo Ficovich played 6 games more than Zink. The Argentine scored 31 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Tyler fired 26 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Pablo Ficovich	Zink
Aces	11	9
Avg per match	11	9
1st in	40/66	34/52
%1st in	61%	65%
1st pts	31/40	26/34
%1st pts	78%	76%
2nd pts	14/26	10/18
%2nd pts	54%	56%

Pablo Ficovich scored 11 aces . Zink blasted 9 aces . Pablo Ficovich won 78% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Zink won 76% 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	Pablo Ficovich	Zink
Won	3	4
Converted	3/6	4/10
% Converted	50%	40%
Conceded	3	5
Saved	2	5
% Saved	67%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

The Argentine broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Argentine surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Zink broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Zink was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.

Pablo Ficovich
	R1 Poling	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	68-58	68-58
Total points	126	126
Winners	31	31
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	40/66	40/66
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	31/40	31/40
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	14/26	14/26
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Zink
	R1 Orlov	Total
Score	6-4 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	64-42	64-42
Total points	106	106
Winners	26	26
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	34/52	34/52
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	26/34	26/34
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	10/18	10/18
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/10
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	5/5	5
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Merida Challenger

• Cristian GarinGarin – Miguel TobonTobon (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Juan Carlos Prado AngeloCarlos Prado Angelo – Dan MartinMartin (1-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Rodrigo AlujasAlujas (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Karl PolingPoling (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Joshua SheehySheehy – Aidan MayoMayo (6-1 1-6 7-6²) – See score progression
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Andres AndradeAndrade (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Petr NesterovNesterov – Robin CatryCatry (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (6-0 7-5) – See score progression
• Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez – Govind NandaNanda (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Alan Fernando Rubio FierrosFernando Rubio Fierros (6-2 7-6¹⁰) – See score progression
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Garrett JohnsJohns – Sebastian GimaGima (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Hugo DellienDellien – Maxime JanvierJanvier (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Renzo OlivoOlivo – Max WiskandtWiskandt (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Tyler ZinkZink – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Joshua SheehySheehy – Aidan MayoMayo (6-1 1-6 7-6(2)) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Karl PolingPoling (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Juan Carlos Prado AngeloCarlos Prado Angelo – Dan MartinMartin (1-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Alan Fernando Rubio FierrosFernando Rubio Fierros (6-2 7-6(10)) – See score progression
• Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Rodrigo AlujasAlujas (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez – Govind NandaNanda (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Petr NesterovNesterov – Robin CatryCatry (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Cristian GarinGarin – Miguel TobonTobon (6-2 6-0) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Renzo OlivoOlivo – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hugo DellienDellien – Joshua SheehySheehy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Tyler ZinkZink (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Garrett JohnsJohns – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction