Carlos Maria Zarate and Benjamin Torrealba will square off in the qualifications of the Sao Leopoldo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on QUADRA 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Maria Zarate who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Carlos Maria Zarate is the pick to win this match.
Carlos Maria Zarate -> 1.43
Benjamin Torrealba -> 2.58
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Prediction and head to head Carlos Maria Zarate vs. Benjamin Torrealba
There is no head to head record between Carlos Maria Zarate and Benjamin Torrealba since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Carlos Maria Zarate
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 43-20 | 0-0 | 38-20 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 48-31 | 1-1 | 47-29 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-18 | 5-8 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 575 (career-high), the Argentine got to the qualifications after defeating Gabriel Roveri Sidney 6-0 6-4.
In the qualifications, Maria Zarate had a good straight sets win against Roveri Sidney (6-0 6-4). During the match, Maria Zarate scored 69 points vs Roveri Sidney’s 48. The Argentine was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Maria Zarate managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Carlos Maria Zarate was exceptionally effective on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Maria Zarate broke Roveri Sidney 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Maria Zarate has a winning match record in the last 3 years having won 56% of his matches (72-56). 9-7 on clay in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Maria Zarate has a composed66-46 record in the last 3 years on clay.
Carlos has an overall 9-7 win-loss record in 2026, 9-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sao Leopoldo Challenger
Carlos has never competed in this tournament before.
Benjamin Torrealba
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15-16 | 0-0 | 14-15 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 28-25 | 0-1 | 28-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-23 | 2-3 | 29-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 732 (career-high), the Chilean got to the qualifications after beating Joao Victor Couto Loureiro 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Benjamin had a good straight sets win against Victor Couto Loureiro (6-4 6-2). During the match Torrealba scored 67 points vs Victor Couto Loureiro’s 55. Torrealba was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Torrealba recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Benjamin Torrealba was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Benjamin broke Victor Couto Loureiro 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Benjamin has an aggregate 10-7 win-loss record in 2026, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Maria Zarate | Torrealba |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 |
| Pts | 69-48 | 67-55 |
| Total Points | 117 | 122 |
| Winners | 24 | 24 |
| %Winners | 35% | 36% |
Both Maria Zarate and Torrealba 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, Maria Zarate and Torrealba have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Maria Zarate played 2 games less than Torrealba. Maria Zarate scored 24 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Chilean bagged 24 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Maria Zarate | Torrealba |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 5 |
| 1st in | 33/60 | 33/56 |
| %1st in | 55% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 15/23 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 65% |
Maria Zarate struck 5 aces . Torrealba made 5 aces . Maria Zarate won 73% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Torrealba won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Maria Zarate | Torrealba |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 50% | 27% |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 75% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Argentine broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Maria Zarate conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Benjamin broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Benjamin was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Maria Zarate | |||
| Q1 Roveri Sidney |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 69-48 | 69-48 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 33/60 | 33/60 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Torrealba | |||
| Q1 Victor Couto Loureiro |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-55 | 67-55 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/56 | 33/56 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 15/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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