

What Time Will Aleksandar Vukic Play Against Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez?
Vukic and Mendez are on the Day 2 Schedule at Abierto Mexicano Telcel Presentado Por Hsbc 2025 on Tuesday 25 February 2025. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Aleksandar Vukic and [WC] Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez will face off in the Los Cabos Hard R32 match. Vukic currently leads the head-to-head with a 1-0 record against Mendez. Vukic, aged 28, is ranked as the World No. 66 and achieved a career-high ranking of No. 48 in August 2023 after reaching his first ATP Tour final in Atlanta. He had a successful run in the 2024 Eastbourne as a Lucky Loser (LL), advancing to the 2nd ATP Tour SF. He also qualified for the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai, where he defeated No. 9 Ruud, marking the biggest win of his career. Vukic won the Challenger titles at the 2022 Bengaluru-2 and 2023 Busan tournaments, and reached the finals in the 2021 and 2022 Champaign tournaments. He was a 3-time All-American for the University of Illinois from 2015-2018. Vukic was born in Sydney, after his parents and older brother fled Montenegro during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It is worth noting that Vukic is seeking his first ATP 500 win, as he currently holds a 0-6 record at this level. He has also struggled against left-handers this season, with a 0-3 record, and has a 0-4 record in tiebreaks.
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On the other hand, Mendez, aged 19, is ranked as the World No. 356, which is his career-high ranking achieved in February 2025. He earned his first ranking point in March 2022 at the age of 16 and broke into the Top 500 in May 2024. Mendez made his ATP Tour debut as a Wild Card (WC) at the 2022 Los Cabos tournament and secured his first tour-level win at the 2023 Davis Cup against China, defeating Sun. He also had wins over Holmgren and Purtseladze while representing Mexico in the Davis Cup, contributing to his 3-2 record. Mendez reached the peak of the junior rankings in May 2023 and won the boys’ doubles title at the 2023 Roland Garros with Demin, becoming the first Mexican junior Grand Slam champion since Abaroa in 1992. He ended his junior career on a 17-0 winning streak with three titles. In terms of his performance on the Challenger tour, Mendez has a record of 14-30 and has had notable runs to the quarterfinals at the 2024 Acapulco and 2024 Zagreb tournaments. He also achieved a victory over No. 91 Tirante in the 2024 Cuernavaca (Morelos) 1R match. Mendez captured his second ITF World Tennis Tour title at the 2024 M25 Xalapa, defeating former World No. 17 Tomic. Mendez is aiming to become the first Mexican player to record a main draw match win at the event since Santiago Gonzalez defeated Garza in the 2011 1R. The 19-year-old, who has earned all three career tour-level wins in Davis Cup matches, is seeking the biggest win of his career as he currently holds a 0-4 record against players in the Top 80.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Vukic will win.
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