Tennis Pick Leonardo Mayer vs Carlos Berlocq

Carlos Berlocq leads the H2H against Leonardo Mayer by 3-1, and all these wins came before 2014 while Mayer won their recent meeting in 2017. Carlos Berlocq doesn’t seem to have the energy to slug it out on the clay courts at the moment, which makes his compatriot Mayer the favorite in this contest.

Leonardo Mayer Tennis Pick

Leonardo Mayer, for the second time in three weeks, lost the first set in a first-round match but fought back to secure the progression, when he defeated Gastao Elias this week. Mayer previously won his first round match at Buenos Aires in the similar fashion (vs. Rogerio Dutra Silva) and went on to reach the quarterfinal.
The Argentinian has played two second-round matches here in the past and ended up on the winning side on both occasions, against Jeremy Chardy in 2012 and Albert Ramos in 2015.
Only once out of three times, Leonardo Mayer had managed to win a second-round match in 2018, which was at Buenos Aires earlier this month, when he defeated Fabio Fognini in straight sets. Before that, he faced two second-round exits at Sydney (Benoit Paire) and Australian Open (Rafael Nadal).

Carlos Berlocq Tennis Pick

Argentinian veteran Carlos Berlocq survived a scare during his first round match as he had to fight back from a set down against the 17-year-old Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild. Berlocq was entirely dominated by the teenager until eventually, he ran out of gas.
The win against Thiago Seyboth Wild was Berlocq’s first main draw win of the season, has earned two more wins in 2018 which came in the qualifying stages of Rio de Janeiro last week. Carlos Berlocq’s W/L record in 2018 stands at 3/3.
After progressing to the quarterfinal in 2013, Berlocq faced second-round exit from his recent two appearances at Sao Paulo, against Santiago Giraldo in 2015 and Guido Pella in 2017.

Tennis Pick : Leonardo Mayer to win
Odds: 1.80 at Bet365