Mariano Kestelboim and Sebastian Gima will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Cali Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on CANCHA 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mariano Kestelboim who should win in 3 sets.
Mariano Kestelboim -> 1.74
Sebastian Gima -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Mariano Kestelboim vs. Sebastian Gima
There is no head to head record between Mariano Kestelboim and Sebastian Gima since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mariano Kestelboim
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-26 | 0-0 | 37-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-20 | 2-1 | 30-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-11 | 2-1 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-23 | 1-4 | 21-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 407, the Argentine got to the qualifications after defeating Matteo Covato 6-1 7-6(3).
In the qualifications, Mariano had a good straight sets win against Covato (6-1 7-63). During the match, Kestelboim scored 69 points vs Covato’s 49. Mariano was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kestelboim scored just 1 ace during the encounter and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Mariano Kestelboim was very effective on serve to win 84% (32/38) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mariano broke Covato 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Kestelboim has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (313-201). 32-20 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kestelboim has an aggregate 283-179 match record in the last years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Punta del Este and M25 Lujan.
Mariano has a composed 32-21 win-loss record in 2025, 32-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cali Challenger
Kestelboim has never competed in this tournament before.
Sebastian Gima
36 - 29win/loss
561
436
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-35 | 9-5 | 33-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-33 | 3-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-35 | 15-8 | 41-25 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-30 | 25-11 | 23-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-24 | 1-3 | 28-20 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 573, Gima got to the qualifications after defeating Juan Sebastian Gomez 6-4 7-6(2).
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Sebastian Gomez (6-4 7-62). During the match Gima scored 80 points vs Sebastian Gomez’s 67. Sebastian was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Gima scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Sebastian Gima lost the serve 4 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Gima put 63% of his first serves in, winning 60% (28/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the 2nd serve. Sebastian broke Sebastian Gomez 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Sebastian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Palm Coast and M15 Ljubljana.
Sebastian has an aggregate 36-28 win-loss record in 2025, 30-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kestelboim | Gima |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 23 |
| Pts | 69-49 | 80-67 |
| Total Points | 118 | 147 |
| Winners | 32 | 28 |
| %Winners | 46% | 35% |
Both Kestelboim and Gima played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kestelboim and Gima have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kestelboim played 3 games less than Gima. The Argentine scored 32 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Sebastian managed to score 28 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kestelboim | Gima |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 38/62 | 47/75 |
| %1st in | 61% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 32/38 | 28/47 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 17/28 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 61% |
Kestelboim struck 1 ace . Gima also scored 1 ace . Kestelboim won 84% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Gima won 60% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kestelboim | Gima |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 71% |
| Conceded | 4 | 10 |
| Saved | 3 | 6 |
| % Saved | 75% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Mariano broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Argentine lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Romanian broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Romanian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kestelboim | |||
| Q1 Covato | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 69-49 | 69-49 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 38/62 | 38/62 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 32/38 | 32/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gima | |||
| Q1 Sebastian Gomez | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 80-67 | 80-67 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 47/75 | 47/75 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 28/47 | 28/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/28 | 17/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
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