James Duckworth and Juan Pablo Varillas will face off in the 2^nd round of the Mexico City Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on ESTADIO RAFAEL OSUNA. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.75
Juan Pablo Varillas -> 1.99

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Juan Pablo Varillas

There is no head to head record between James Duckworth and Juan Pablo Varillas since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 90, James got to the 2^nd round after defeating Mateus Alves 6-3 7-6(3).

In the 1^st round, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Alves (6-3 7-6³). During the match, Duckworth scored 73 points vs Alves’s 57. James was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about the service games, Duckworth recorded 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, James Duckworth was very efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. James broke Alves 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (289-189). 1-1 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Duckworth has an aggregate 18-19 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Morelia Challenger.

The Australian has a compiled 11-11 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Mexico City Challenger

Juan Pablo Varillas

Ranked no. 251, the Peruvian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Santiago Rodriguez Taverna 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Juan had a good straight sets win against Rodriguez Taverna (6-1 6-4). During the match Pablo Patino-Samudio scored 63 points vs Rodriguez Taverna’s 45. Juan was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Pablo Patino-Samudio blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Juan Pablo Varillas lost the serve once and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Pablo Patino-Samudio put 62% of his first serves in, winning 67% (28/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the 2nd serve. Pablo Patino-Samudio broke Rodriguez Taverna 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Buenos Aires Challenger where he overcame Adolfo Daniel Vallejo in the final 6-4 6-4.

The Peruvian has an aggregate 14-7 win-loss record in 2025, 14-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Pablo Patino-Samudio
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	17
Pts	73-57	63-45
Total Points	130	108
Winners	29	28
%Winners	40%	44%

Both Duckworth and Pablo Patino-Samudio played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Duckworth and Pablo Patino-Samudio have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Duckworth played 5 games more than Pablo Patino-Samudio. Duckworth scored 29 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Peruvian blasted 28 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Pablo Patino-Samudio
Aces	6	3
Avg per match	6	3
1st in	36/57	42/68
%1st in	63%	62%
1st pts	29/36	28/42
%1st pts	81%	67%
2nd pts	13/21	14/26
%2nd pts	62%	54%

Duckworth fired 6 aces . Pablo Patino-Samudio scored 3 aces . Duckworth won 81% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Pablo Patino-Samudio won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Duckworth	Pablo Patino-Samudio
Won	3	4
Converted	3/7	4/6
% Converted	43%	67%
Conceded	1	11
Saved	0	10
% Saved	0%	91%
Times Broken	1	1

The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Pablo Patino-Samudio broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Pablo Patino-Samudio conceded his serve once and he saved 91% of the break points that he conceded.

Duckworth
	R1 Alves	Total
Score	6-3 7-63
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	73-57	73-57
Total points	130	130
Winners	29	29
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	36/57	36/57
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	29/36	29/36
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	13/21	13/21
% 2nd pts	62%	62%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/7	3/7
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Pablo Patino-Samudio
	R1 Rodriguez Taverna	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	63-45	63-45
Total points	108	108
Winners	28	28
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	42/68	42/68
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	28/42	28/42
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	14/26	14/26
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	11	11
Saved	10/11	10
Saved %	91%	91%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Mexico City Challenger

• Bernard TomicTomic – Tom ParisParis (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Alfredo PerezPerez – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Aidan MayoMayo (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Maxime CressyCressy (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Matias SotoSoto – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Andres MartinMartin – Juan Carlos Manuel AguilarCarlos Manuel Aguilar (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Patrick ZahrajZahraj (7-6⁶ 6-1) – See score progression
• Aziz DougazDougaz – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-1 4-6 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (3-6 6-3 7-6⁹) – See score progression
• Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (7-6⁵ 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Darwin BlanchBlanch – Rodrigo AlujasAlujas (3-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Mateus AlvesAlves (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Aidan MayoMayo (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alfredo PerezPerez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Luka PavlovicPavlovic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Matias SotoSoto – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction