Juan Pablo Ficovich and Juan Alejandro Hernandez will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Mexico City Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on ESTADIO. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Ficovich who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Ficovich is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Ficovich -> 1.25
Juan Alejandro Hernandez -> 3.48
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Ficovich vs. Juan Alejandro Hernandez
This will be the 3rd time that Juan Pablo Ficovich and Juan Alejandro Hernandez play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Pablo Ficovich and Alejandro Hernandez (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Pablo Ficovich won 6-1 7-6(4) in the 1st round in the Cuernavaca Challenger back in 2025.
Juan Pablo Ficovich
9 - 9win/loss
370
125
WLLLWLLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12-23 | 7-11 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 37-34 | 11-9 | 24-22 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-33 | 5-7 | 36-22 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-33 | 15-13 | 11-18 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-32 | 6-11 | 23-15 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 195, Pablo Ficovich got to the 2nd round after defeating Daniel Milavsky 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Milavsky (6-4 6-3). During the match, Pablo Ficovich scored 74 points vs Milavsky’s 61. The Argentine was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pablo Ficovich scored 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Juan Pablo Ficovich was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Juan broke Milavsky 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Pablo Ficovich has winning record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (325-254). 3-3 on clay in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Pablo Ficovich has a compiled 262-177 record in the last years on clay.
Pablo Ficovich’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Morelia Challenger.
Pablo Ficovich has a composed 9-8 win-loss record in 2026, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Mexico City Challenger
Juan Alejandro Hernandez
5 - 8win/loss
471
409
LWWLLLLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19-22 | 16-15 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 32-31 | 13-11 | 15-18 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-17 | 13-8 | 11-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-26 | 19-18 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 492, Alejandro Hernandez reached the 2nd round after defeating Karl Poling 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Mexican had a good straight sets win against Poling (7-5 6-4). During the match Alejandro Hernandez scored 75 points vs Poling’s 67. The Mexican was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Alejandro Hernandez managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Juan Alejandro Hernandez lost the serve 4 times. Furthermore, Alejandro Hernandez put 60% of his first serves in, winning 65% (28/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (12/29) on the 2nd serve. The Mexican broke Poling 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Juan has an overall 4-8 win-loss record in 2026, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Mexico City Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2025. See his history.
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pablo Ficovich | Alejandro Hernandez |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 22 |
| Pts | 74-61 | 75-67 |
| Total Points | 135 | 142 |
| Winners | 23 | 28 |
| %Winners | 31% | 37% |
Both Pablo Ficovich and Alejandro Hernandez played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pablo Ficovich and Alejandro Hernandez have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Pablo Ficovich played 3 games less than Alejandro Hernandez. Pablo Ficovich scored 23 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Alejandro Hernandez bagged 28 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pablo Ficovich | Alejandro Hernandez |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 28/58 | 43/72 |
| %1st in | 48% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 28/43 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 12/29 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 41% |
Pablo Ficovich scored 4 aces . Alejandro Hernandez blasted 2 aces . Pablo Ficovich won 82% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Alejandro Hernandez won 65% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pablo Ficovich | Alejandro Hernandez |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/11 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 27% | 75% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 67% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Juan broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. The Argentine dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Alejandro Hernandez broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Alejandro Hernandez conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pablo Ficovich | |||
| R1 Milavsky |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 74-61 | 74-61 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 28/58 | 28/58 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Alejandro Hernandez | |||
| R1 Poling |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 75-67 | 75-67 | |
| Total points | 142 | 142 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 43/72 | 43/72 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 28/43 | 28/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/29 | 12/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/4 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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