Billy Suarez and Nicolas Kicker will square off in the qualifications of the Tampere Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Kicker who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Kicker is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.044
Billy Suarez -> 8.5
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Prediction and head to head Billy Suarez vs. Nicolas Kicker
There is no head to head record between Billy Suarez and Nicolas Kicker since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Billy Suarez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-18 | 26-15 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2024 | 12-4 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Billy reached the qualifications after defeating Dragos Nicolae Cazacu 6-4 3-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Billy defeated Nicolae Cazacu (6-4 3-6 6-2). During the match, Suarez scored 76 points vs Nicolae Cazacu’s 74. Billy was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Suarez struck 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Billy Suarez lost the serve 5 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Suarez put 52% of his first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (14/36) on the 2nd serve. Billy broke Nicolae Cazacu 7 times after converting 64% of his break points (7/11).
Suarez has a solid match record in the last 2 years having won 67% of his matches (40-20). 2-1 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Suarez has an aggregate2-1 win-loss record in the last 2 years on clay.
The American has an aggregate 28-16 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tampere Challenger
Billy has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Kicker
31 - 16win/loss
301
78
LWWWWLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-18 | 2-2 | 36-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-13 | 2-4 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-10 | 1-1 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-28 | 6-6 | 20-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 64-21 | 17-2 | 47-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 394, Kicker got to the qualifications after defeating Patrik Niklas-Salminen 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Niklas-Salminen (6-3 6-2). During the match Kicker scored 59 points vs Niklas-Salminen’s 43. Nicolas was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Kicker scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Nicolas Kicker was pretty efficient on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nicolas broke Niklas-Salminen 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Nicolas’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Santiago and the Concepcion Challenger.
Nicolas has an aggregate 31-16 win-loss record in 2025, 29-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Suarez | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 17 |
| Pts | 76-74 | 59-43 |
| Total Points | 150 | 102 |
| Winners | 26 | 29 |
| %Winners | 34% | 49% |
Both Suarez and Kicker played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Billy Suarez conceded 1 set while Nicolas Kicker hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Suarez has played 1 set more than Kicker (3 vs 2). Therefore, Suarez played 10 games more than Kicker. Billy scored 26 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Kicker bagged 29 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Suarez | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 39/75 | 35/58 |
| %1st in | 52% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 29/35 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 14/36 | 13/23 |
| %2nd pts | 39% | 57% |
Suarez blasted 3 aces . Kicker managed to score 1 ace . Suarez won 67% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 39% of the points. On the other side, Kicker won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Suarez | Kicker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 3 |
| Converted | 7/11 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 64% | 60% |
| Conceded | 7 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 29% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 29% of the break points that he conceded. Kicker broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Kicker was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Suarez | |||
| Q1 Nicolae |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 76-74 | 76-74 | |
| Total points | 150 | 150 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/75 | 39/75 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 26/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/36 | 14/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 39% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| Converted % | 64% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 2/7 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 29% | 29% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Kicker | |||
| Q1 Niklas-Salminen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-43 | 59-43 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 35/58 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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