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.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dali Blanch who should win in 2 sets.
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
| 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)
.Previously in the Santa Fe Challenger
Carlos has never competed in this tournament before.
Dali Blanch
| 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.
H2H Performance in the tournament
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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