Daniel Altmaier and Ignacio Buse will fight against each other in the quarter of the Cancun Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 5:00 pm on GRANDSTAND EL TINTO. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniel Altmaier who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Daniel Altmaier is the pick to win this match.
Daniel Altmaier -> 1.29
Ignacio Buse -> 3.34

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Prediction and head to head Daniel Altmaier vs. Ignacio Buse

There is no head to head record between Daniel Altmaier and Ignacio Buse since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Daniel Altmaier

Ranked no. 60, Altmaier got to the quarter after defeating Yannick Hanfmann 6-1 3-6 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, The German defeated Hanfmann (6-1 3-6 6-1). During the match, Altmaier scored 77 points vs Hanfmann’s 61. Daniel was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Altmaier struck 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Daniel Altmaier was extremely efficient on serve to win 79% (30/38) of his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The German broke Hanfmann 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Altmaier has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (370-239). 7-12 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Altmaier has an aggregate 122-79 record in the last years on hard.

Altmaier’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Turin Challenger.

The German has a composed 26-27 win-loss record in 2025, 7-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cancun Challenger

The German has never competed in this tournament before.

Ignacio Buse

Ranked no. 140, Ignacio got to the quarter after defeating Daniel Elahi Galan 7-6(8) 6-4 and Beibit Zhukayev 6-3 7-6(4).

In the 2^nd round, Buse had a good straight sets win against Zhukayev (6-3 7-6⁴). During the match Buse scored 72 points vs Zhukayev’s 60. The Peruvian was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Buse made 4 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Ignacio Buse was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 61% (23/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ignacio was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Zhukayev twice.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Peruvian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Heilbronn Challenger where he beat Guy Den Ouden in the final 7-5 7-5.

Ignacio has an aggregate 28-20 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Altmaier	Buse
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	3	4
Tot Games	23	45
Pts	77-61	149-130
Total Points	138	279
Winners	30	66
%Winners	39%	44%

Altmaier played 1 match while Buse competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Daniel Altmaier lost 1 set while Ignacio Buse hasn’t lost a set so far. Altmaier has played 1 set(s) less than Buse (3 vs 4). Therefore, Altmaier played 22 games less than Buse. Daniel scored 30 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Ignacio scored 66 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Altmaier	Buse
Aces	7	12
Avg per match	7	6
1st in	38/72	87/153
%1st in	53%	57%
1st pts	30/38	66/87
%1st pts	79%	76%
2nd pts	21/34	38/66
%2nd pts	62%	58%

Altmaier made 7 aces . Buse bagged 12 aces (6 per match). Altmaier won 79% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Buse won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Altmaier	Buse
Won	4	5
Converted	4/6	5/6
% Converted	67%	83%
Conceded	4	11
Saved	3	8
% Saved	75%	73%
Times Broken	1	3

The German broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Altmaier lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Buse broke his opponents 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Ignacio conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.

Altmaier
	R2 Hanfmann	Total
Score	6-1 3-6 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	23	23
pts	77-61	77-61
Total points	138	138
Winners	30	30
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	38/72	38/72
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	30/38	30/38
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	21/34	21/34
% 2nd pts	62%	62%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Buse
	R1 Elahi Galan Riveros	R2 Zhukayev	Total
Score	7-68 6-4	6-3 7-64
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	23	22	45
pts	77-70	72-60	149-130
Total points	147	132	279
Winners	35	31	66
%Winners	45%	43%	44%
SERVE
Aces	8	4	12
Double Faults	1	6	7
1st in	47/75	40/78	87/153
% 1st in	63%	51%	57%
1st pts	35/47	31/40	66/87
% 1st pts	74%	78%	76%
2nd pts	15/28	23/38	38/66
% 2nd pts	54%	61%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	2	5
Converted	3/4	2/2	5/6
Converted %	75%	100%	83%
Conceded	3	8	11
Saved	1/3	7/8	8
Saved %	33%	88%	121%
Times Broken	2	1	3

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