Facundo Mena and Nicolas Barrientos will square off in the qualifications of the Montevideo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Mena who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.28
Nicolas Barrientos -> 3.26

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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Nicolas Barrientos

This will be the 2nd time that Facundo Mena and Nicolas Barrientos fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Barrientos (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Barrientos won 6-1 2-6 6-3 in the 1st round in the Mexico City Challenger back in 2022.

Facundo Mena

Facundo Mena

18 - 24win/loss

Hard
4-3
I Hard
0-0
Clay
14-20
Grass
0-1
Rank
389
High
127
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 21-25 4-3 17-21 0-0 0-1 0-0
2024 51-24 3-1 47-23 1-0 0-0 0-0
2023 31-21 11-9 18-11 2-1 0-0 0-0
2022 35-29 8-7 25-20 1-1 1-1 0-0
2021 29-30 0-4 29-26 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 403, Facundo reached the qualifications after defeating Benjamin Kittay 6-4 7-6(3).

In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Kittay (6-4 7-63). During the match, Mena scored 81 points vs Kittay’s 66. Facundo was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Mena scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Facundo Mena was quite effective on serve to win 85% (34/40) of his 1st serve and 56% (18/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Argentine broke Kittay twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Mena has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (313-233). 14-20 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Mena has an aggregate 248-183 match record in the last years on clay.

Mena’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Piracicaba Challenger.

Mena has an overall 18-24 win-loss record in 2025, 14-20 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Montevideo Challenger

Montevideo Challenger
Mena's Record

Nicolas Barrientos

Nicolas Barrientos

1 - 0win/loss

Clay
1-0
Rank
High
237
LW
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-1 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 1-5 0-1 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 18-14 1-3 17-11 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 22-10 8-4 14-6 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Currently unranked, Barrientos got to the qualifications after defeating Christoph Negritu 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Colombian had a good straight sets win against Negritu (6-3 6-2). During the match Barrientos scored 60 points vs Negritu’s 37. Nicolas was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Barrientos scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nicolas Barrientos was quite efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Barrientos broke Negritu 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

The Colombian has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Montevideo Challenger
Barrientos's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

F.Mena
N.Barrientos
!
1h:45
1h:45
Time on court​
0h:58
0h:58
1h:45
1h:45
Last match​
!
0h:58
0h:58
1
1
Match played
1
1
23
23
Games Played​
17
17
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
81
81
Total points​
60
60
81
81
Avg point​
60
60
34
34
Winners
27
27
34
34
Avg Winners​
27
27
42%
42%
Ratio winners
45%
45%
-- Serve --
6
6
Aces
1
1
6
6
Avg Aces
1
1
2
2
Double Faults
1
1
2
2
Avg Double Faults
1
1
34/40
34/40
1st won total​
27/31
27/31
!
85%
85%
1st won %
!
87%
87%
18/32
18/32
2nd won total​
10/14
10/14
56%
56%
2nd won %
!
71%
71%
-- Break Points --
2/3
2/3
BP won
3/7
3/7
2/3
2/3
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
!
67%
67%
Won
43%
43%
3
3
Conceded
1
1
3
3
Avg Conceded
1
1
1
1
Broken
0
0
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0
0
2
2
Saved
1
1
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Mena Barrientos
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 17
Pts 81-66 60-37
Total Points 147 97
Winners 34 27
%Winners 42% 45%

Both Mena and Barrientos played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mena and Barrientos have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mena played 6 games more than Barrientos. Facundo scored 34 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Barrientos struck 27 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve Mena Barrientos
Aces 6 1
Avg per match 6 1
1st in 40/72 31/45
%1st in 56% 69%
1st pts 34/40 27/31
%1st pts 85% 87%
2nd pts 18/32 10/14
%2nd pts 56% 71%

Mena bagged 6 aces . Barrientos bagged 1 ace . Mena won 85% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Barrientos won 87% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Mena Barrientos
Won 2 3
Converted 2/3 3/7
% Converted 67% 43%
Conceded 3 1
Saved 2 1
% Saved 67% 100%
Times Broken 1 0

The Argentine broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Mena conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Barrientos broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Nicolas was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Mena
Q1
Kittay		 Total
Score 6-4 7-63
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 23
pts 81-66 81-66
Total points 147 147
Winners 34 34
%Winners 42% 42%
SERVE
Aces 6 6
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 40/72 40/72
% 1st in 56% 56%
1st pts 34/40 34/40
% 1st pts 85% 85%
2nd pts 18/32 18/32
% 2nd pts 56% 56%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/3 2/3
Converted % 67% 67%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 2/3 2
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 1 1
Barrientos
Q1
Negritu		 Total
Score 6-3 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 60-37 60-37
Total points 97 97
Winners 27 27
%Winners 45% 45%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 31/45 31/45
% 1st in 69% 69%
1st pts 27/31 27/31
% 1st pts 87% 87%
2nd pts 10/14 10/14
% 2nd pts 71% 71%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 1/1 1
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

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