Felipe Meligeni Alves and Patrick Maloney will fight against 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 Thursday at 5:30 pm on CANCHA YUCATAN. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felipe Meligeni Alves who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Felipe Meligeni Alves is the pick to win this match.
Felipe Meligeni Alves -> 1.285
Patrick Maloney -> 3.36

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Prediction and head to head Felipe Meligeni Alves vs. Patrick Maloney

There is no head to head record between Felipe Meligeni Alves and Patrick Maloney since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Felipe Meligeni Alves

Ranked no. 176, Meligeni Alves reached the 2^nd round after beating Rodrigo Alujas 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Meligeni Alves had a good straight sets win against Alujas (6-3 6-4). During the match, Meligeni Alves scored 76 points vs Alujas’s 62. Meligeni Alves was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Meligeni Alves fired 3 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Felipe Meligeni Alves lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Meligeni Alves put 69% of his first serves in, winning 66% (29/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the 2nd serve. The Brazilian broke Alujas 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Meligeni Alves has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (317-215). 5-5 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Meligeni Alves has a composed 278-174 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Felipe has a compiled 5-6 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Merida Challenger

Felipe has never competed in this tournament before.

Patrick Maloney

Ranked no. 413 (career-high), Maloney got to the 2^nd round after beating Alan Fernando Rubio Fierros 6-2 7-6(10).

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Fernando Rubio Fierros (6-2 7-6¹⁰). During the match Maloney scored 78 points vs Fernando Rubio Fierros’s 64. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Maloney struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Patrick Maloney lost the serve 5 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Maloney put 76% of his first serves in, winning 63% (32/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 25% (4/16) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Fernando Rubio Fierros 7 times after converting 70% of his break points (7/10).

The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Ithaca and M15 Sherbrooke.

The American has an overall 16-3 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Meligeni Alves	Maloney
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	21
Pts	76-62	78-64
Total Points	138	142
Winners	29	32
%Winners	38%	41%

Both Meligeni Alves and Maloney played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Meligeni Alves and Maloney have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Meligeni Alves played 2 games less than Maloney. Meligeni Alves scored 29 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Patrick recorded 32 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Meligeni Alves	Maloney
Aces	3	3
Avg per match	3	3
1st in	44/64	51/67
%1st in	69%	76%
1st pts	29/44	32/51
%1st pts	66%	63%
2nd pts	13/20	4/16
%2nd pts	65%	25%

Meligeni Alves bagged 3 aces . Maloney struck 3 aces . Meligeni Alves won 66% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Maloney won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 25% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Meligeni Alves	Maloney
Won	4	7
Converted	4/7	7/10
% Converted	57%	70%
Conceded	3	9
Saved	2	4
% Saved	67%	44%
Times Broken	1	5

Meligeni Alves broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Meligeni Alves surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Patrick broke his opponent 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Maloney conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded.

Meligeni Alves
	R1 Alujas	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	76-62	76-62
Total points	138	138
Winners	29	29
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	44/64	44/64
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	29/44	29/44
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	13/20	13/20
% 2nd pts	65%	65%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Maloney
	R1 Fernando Rubio Fierros	Total
Score	6-2 7-610
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	78-64	78-64
Total points	142	142
Winners	32	32
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	51/67	51/67
% 1st in	76%	76%
1st pts	32/51	32/51
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	4/16	4/16
% 2nd pts	25%	25%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/10	7/10
Converted %	70%	70%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	4/9	4
Saved %	44%	44%
Times Broken	5	5

Tennis Scores in Merida Challenger

• Hugo DellienDellien – Joshua SheehySheehy (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Tyler ZinkZink (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Renzo OlivoOlivo – Bernard TomicTomic (6-4 3-6 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Garrett JohnsJohns – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (4-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Hugo DellienDellien – Renzo OlivoOlivo (4-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Garrett JohnsJohns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction