Carlos Maria Zarate and Dali Blanch will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Santa Fe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dali Blanch who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Dali Blanch is the pick to win this match.
Dali Blanch -> 1.36
Carlos Maria Zarate -> 2.94

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Prediction and head to head Carlos Maria Zarate vs. Dali Blanch

There is no head to head record between Carlos Maria Zarate and Dali Blanch since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Carlos Maria Zarate

Carlos Maria Zarate

23 - 14win/loss

Clay
23-14
Rank
615
High
615
LWLWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 48-31 1-1 47-29 0-1 0-0 0-0
2024 15-18 5-8 10-10 0-0 0-0 0-0

Currently unranked, Carlos reached the qualifications after beating Bautista Vilicich 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Vilicich (6-1 6-4). During the match, Maria Zarate scored 63 points vs Vilicich’s 47. The Argentine was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Maria Zarate scored 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Carlos Maria Zarate lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Maria Zarate put 55% of his first serves in, winning 81% (25/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Maria Zarate broke Vilicich 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Maria Zarate has a winning match record in the last 2 years having won 55% of his matches (38-31). 23-13 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Maria Zarate has a compiled33-23 win-loss record in the last 2 years on clay.

Carlos has an overall 23-13 win-loss record in 2025, 23-13 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Santa Fe Challenger

Carlos has never competed in this tournament before.

Santa Fe Challenger
Maria Zarate's Record

Dali Blanch

Dali Blanch

24 - 13win/loss

Hard
4-5
I Hard
0-0
Clay
20-8
Rank
449
High
433
LLLWLWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 47-30 11-14 36-16 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 23-29 9-14 14-15 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 36-29 17-17 19-11 0-1 0-0 0-0
2022 21-28 11-17 10-11 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 15-20 10-10 5-10 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 591 (career-high), Dali got to the qualifications after beating Tadeo David Ramirez 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against David Ramirez (6-3 6-3). During the match Blanch scored 62 points vs David Ramirez’s 44. The American was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Blanch managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Dali Blanch was quite effective on serve to win 81% (17/21) of his 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dali broke David Ramirez 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Dali’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Kursumlijska Banja.

Blanch has an overall 23-13 win-loss record in 2025, 19-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Santa Fe Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.

Santa Fe Challenger
Blanch's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

C.Maria Zarate
D.Blanch
1h:14
1h:14
Time on court​
1h:16
1h:16
1h:14
1h:14
Last match​
1h:16
1h:16
1
1
Match played
1
1
17
17
Games Played​
18
18
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
63
63
Total points​
62
62
63
63
Avg point​
62
62
25
25
Winners
17
17
25
25
Avg Winners​
17
17
40%
40%
Ratio winners
27%
27%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
5
5
4
4
Avg Aces
5
5
4
4
Double Faults
4
4
4
4
Avg Double Faults
4
4
25/31
25/31
1st won total​
17/21
17/21
!
81%
81%
1st won %
!
81%
81%
12/25
12/25
2nd won total​
18/27
18/27
48%
48%
2nd won %
!
67%
67%
-- Break Points --
4/8
4/8
BP won
4/5
4/5
4/8
4/8
Avg BP won
4/5
4/5
50%
50%
Won
!
80%
80%
5
5
Conceded
2
2
5
5
Avg Conceded
2
2
1
1
Broken
1
1
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
4
4
Saved
1
1

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Maria Zarate Blanch
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 18
Pts 63-47 62-44
Total Points 110 106
Winners 25 17
%Winners 40% 27%

Both Maria Zarate and Blanch played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Maria Zarate and Blanch have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Maria Zarate played 1 game less than Blanch. Maria Zarate scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Dali bagged 17 winners (27%).

Serve Performance

Serve Maria Zarate Blanch
Aces 4 5
Avg per match 4 5
1st in 31/56 21/48
%1st in 55% 44%
1st pts 25/31 17/21
%1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 12/25 18/27
%2nd pts 48% 67%

Maria Zarate blasted 4 aces . Blanch bagged 5 aces . Maria Zarate won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Blanch won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Maria Zarate Blanch
Won 4 4
Converted 4/8 4/5
% Converted 50% 80%
Conceded 5 2
Saved 4 1
% Saved 80% 50%
Times Broken 1 1

The Argentine broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Carlos lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Dali broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Dali conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Maria Zarate
Q1
Vilicich
Total
Score 6-1 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 63-47 63-47
Total points 110 110
Winners 25 25
%Winners 40% 40%
SERVE
Aces 4 4
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 31/56 31/56
% 1st in 55% 55%
1st pts 25/31 25/31
% 1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 12/25 12/25
% 2nd pts 48% 48%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/8 4/8
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 5 5
Saved 4/5 4
Saved % 80% 80%
Times Broken 1 1
Blanch
Q1
David
Total
Score 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 62-44 62-44
Total points 106 106
Winners 17 17
%Winners 27% 27%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 21/48 21/48
% 1st in 44% 44%
1st pts 17/21 17/21
% 1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 18/27 18/27
% 2nd pts 67% 67%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/5 4/5
Converted % 80% 80%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 1/2 1
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 1 1

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