Tomas Barrios Vera and Juan Bautista Torres will play each other in the semifinal of the Cali Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 10:30 am on CANCHA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Barrios Vera who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tomas Barrios Vera is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Barrios Vera -> 1.35
Juan Bautista Torres -> 3.02

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Prediction and head to head Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Juan Bautista Torres

There is no head to head record between Tomas Barrios Vera and Juan Bautista Torres since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Tomas Barrios Vera

Ranked no. 137, Marcelo reached the semifinal after defeating Juan Alejandro Hernandez 6-1 6-2, Luciano Emanuel Ambrogi 6-4 6-2 and Mateus Alves 6-4 6-2.

In the quarter, The Chilean had a good straight sets win against Alves (6-4 6-2). During the match, Tomas Barrios Vera scored 68 points vs Alves’s 54. Marcelo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Tomas Barrios Vera struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Tomas Barrios Vera conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 6 break points. Furthermore, Tomas Barrios Vera put 66% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the 2nd serve. Tomas Barrios Vera broke Alves 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chilean hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Tomas Barrios Vera has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (381-224). 31-17 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Tomas Barrios Vera has a compiled 288-157 record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Campinas Challenger where he defeated Alvaro Guillen Meza in the final 6-4 6-3.

Marcelo has a composed 40-25 win-loss record in 2025, 31-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cali Challenger

Juan Bautista Torres

Ranked no. 418, the Argentine reached the semifinal after defeating Mateo Castaneda 6-3 7-5, Ignacio Monzon 6-2 6-0, Andres Andrade 6-4 6-0, Daniel Dutra Da Silva 6-2 6-4 and Nicolas Mejia 6-4 6-3.

In the quarter, Juan had a good straight sets win against Mejia (6-4 6-3). During the match Bautista Torres scored 72 points vs Mejia’s 63. Juan was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Bautista Torres scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Juan Bautista Torres lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Bautista Torres put 60% of his first serves in, winning 65% (31/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (18/32) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Mejia 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Juan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.

The Argentine’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Como Challenger.

The Argentine has a compiled 24-25 win-loss record in 2025, 24-25 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Cali Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Tomas Barrios Vera	Bautista Torres
Match played	3	5
Tot Set	6	10
Tot Games	51	88
Pts	194-137	343-255
Total Points	331	598
Winners	83	135
%Winners	43%	39%

Tomas Barrios Vera played 3 matches while Bautista Torres competed in 5 matches. Bautista Torres started his run from the qualifications while Tomas Barrios Vera had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Tomas Barrios Vera has played 4 set(s) less than Bautista Torres (6 vs 10). Therefore, Tomas Barrios Vera played 37 games less than Bautista Torres. Tomas Barrios Vera scored 83 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Bautista Torres blasted 135 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Tomas Barrios Vera	Bautista Torres
Aces	12	10
Avg per match	4	2
1st in	109/162	201/310
%1st in	67%	65%
1st pts	83/109	135/201
%1st pts	76%	67%
2nd pts	31/53	52/109
%2nd pts	58%	48%

Tomas Barrios Vera scored 12 aces (4 per match). Bautista Torres struck 10 aces (2 per match). Tomas Barrios Vera won 76% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Bautista Torres won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Tomas Barrios Vera	Bautista Torres
Won	11	27
Converted	11/29	27/52
% Converted	38%	52%
Conceded	14	31
Saved	13	21
% Saved	93%	68%
Times Broken	1	10

Marcelo broke his opponents 11 times with a 38% conversion rate. Tomas Barrios Vera conceded his serve once and he saved 93% of the break points that he conceded. Juan broke his opponents 27 times with a 52% conversion rate. Juan conceded his serve 10 times and he saved 68% of the break points that he conceded.

Tomas Barrios Vera
	R1 Alejandro Hernandez	R1 Alejandro Hernandez	R2 Emanuel Ambrogi	R2 Emanuel Ambrogi	1/4 Alves	1/4 Alves	Total
Score	6-1 6-2	6-1 6-2	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	2	2	12
Tot Games	15	15	18	18	18	18	102
pts	62-42	62-42	64-41	64-41	68-54	68-54	388-274
Total points	104	104	105	105	122	122	662
Winners	27	27	29	29	27	27	166
%Winners	44%	44%	45%	45%	40%	40%	43%
SERVE
Aces	6	6	2	2	4	4	24
Double Faults	2	2	1	1	1	1	8
1st in	35/53	35/53	34/48	34/48	40/61	40/61	218/324
% 1st in	66%	66%	71%	71%	66%	66%	67%
1st pts	27/35	27/35	29/34	29/34	27/40	27/40	166/218
% 1st pts	77%	77%	85%	85%	68%	68%	76%
2nd pts	9/18	9/18	7/14	7/14	15/21	15/21	62/106
% 2nd pts	50%	50%	50%	50%	71%	71%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	4	4	4	3	3	22
Converted	4/11	4/11	4/11	4/11	3/7	3/7	22/58
Converted %	36%	36%	36%	36%	43%	43%	38%
Conceded	5	5	3	3	6	6	28
Saved	5/5	5/5	2/3	2/3	6/6	6/6	26
Saved %	100%	100%	67%	67%	100%	100%	89%
Times Broken	0	0	1	1	0	0	2

Bautista Torres
	Q1 Castaneda	Q3 Monzon	R1 Andrade	R2 Dutra Da Silva	1/4 Mejia	Total
Score	6-3 7-5	6-2 6-0	6-4 6-0	6-2 6-4	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	2	10
Tot Games	21	14	16	18	19	88
pts	72-55	60-36	70-51	69-50	72-63	343-255
Total points	127	96	121	119	135	598
Winners	31	20	27	26	31	135
%Winners	43%	33%	39%	38%	43%	39%
SERVE
Aces	4	4	1	0	1	10
Double Faults	2	0	0	2	1	5
1st in	44/66	26/41	45/65	38/58	48/80	201/310
% 1st in	67%	63%	69%	66%	60%	65%
1st pts	31/44	20/26	27/45	26/38	31/48	135/201
% 1st pts	70%	77%	60%	68%	65%	67%
2nd pts	8/22	8/15	11/20	7/20	18/32	52/109
% 2nd pts	36%	53%	55%	35%	56%	48%
Breaks
Won	6	6	6	6	3	27
Converted	6/8	6/14	6/14	6/11	3/5	27/52
Converted %	75%	43%	43%	55%	60%	52%
Conceded	9	5	6	6	5	31
Saved	6/9	4/5	4/6	3/6	4/5	21
Saved %	67%	80%	67%	50%	80%	57%
Times Broken	3	1	2	3	1	10

Tennis Scores in Cali Challenger

• Tomas Barrios VeraBarrios Vera – Mateus AlvesAlves (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-4 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – (0-0) – H2H and prediction