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Pedro Cachin v Juan Carlos Prado Angelo

Every number combines what Pedro Cachin does well with what Juan Carlos Prado Angelo allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Forecast

Pedro Cachin wins, best of 3 46%90%: 16%–79% · best of 5: 45%
Serve points won 64.1% / 65.0% Pedro / Juan · tour 65.7%
Strengths only, no similarity priors 46%serve 64.1% / 65.0%

Each player's serve and return strength is fitted against every opponent they were charted against, so a record built on weak opponents counts for less. At least one of them is no longer active or has too little charted in the last three seasons, so both are compared on their careers. The result is then nudged by Pedro Cachin's record against Juan Carlos Prado Angelo's tactical lookalikes and in their charted head-to-heads. A game-by-game Markov chain turns point odds into match odds; the 90% range covers the uncertainty in the two strengths, not the nudges. Charted matches lean toward big events, so treat this as a scouting estimate, not a betting line.

Head to head, per 100 shots

CareerPedroJuan
Direction choice+0.12 ±0.11
better than 85%
−0.03 ±0.13
better than 48%
Shot selection−0.12 ±0.18
better than 36%
+0.49 ±0.18
better than 92%
Execution−0.66 ±0.65
better than 38%
−1.24 ±0.54
better than 17%
Points left on the table2.21 ±0.08
lower than 91%
2.38 ±0.15
lower than 75%

Each player's career against an average tour player in the same position, adjusted for opponent strength, with a 90% margin (shots clustered by match). Points left on the table is the gap to the best-value direction for the same stroke, so lower is better. Percentiles are within each player's own tour. A side is highlighted only when the gap is larger than the margin on the difference.

Serve plan

The share of points the server wins when a first serve lands in that direction (hover a rate for its 90% interval; ± is the 90% margin). "Matchup" combines the server's rate with how this returner handles that serve. "Optimal" is the mix that wins most against this returner once they start reading a habit, at the response measured across the tour, and only within the range servers' habits actually vary. The gain over the current mix is how exploitable that mix is.

Pedro Cachin serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowPedro winsv JuanMatchupOptimal
Wide44%69%70%65.0%±10.857% ▲
Body8%59%64%59.5%±18.40% ▼
T48%73%67%65.7%±10.643% ▼

Optimal v Juan Carlos Prado Angelo: +0.7±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +0.8 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowPedro winsv JuanMatchupOptimal
Wide45%81%65%74.2%±10.539% ▼
Body8%62%66%65.1%±18.20% ▼
T48%71%69%67.4%±10.661% ▲

Optimal v Juan Carlos Prado Angelo: +0.4±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +4.0 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Juan Carlos Prado Angelo serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowJuan winsv PedroMatchupOptimal
Wide27%69%71%67.4%±11.640% ▲
Body2%65%64%65.2%±17.50% ▼
T71%64%71%59.1%±10.960% ▼

Optimal v Pedro Cachin: +0.6±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +6.0 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowJuan winsv PedroMatchupOptimal
Wide54%67%73%67.7%±10.667% ▲
Body1%65%62%64.1%±17.90%
T45%63%73%64.8%±11.533% ▼

Optimal v Pedro Cachin: ±0.0±1.0 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +1.4 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Return plan

Value of each return, in points per 100 returns against an average return of the same serve (direction, court, surface): the tour's result with that return, the returner's own edge with it, and what this server gives up when it comes back to that side. Returns with no charted direction are left out, so values compare with each other rather than with zero. Depth isn't a choice here: missed returns have no depth. Serve quality isn't charted, so a block through the middle partly reflects the serve that forced it.

Pedro Cachin returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv JuanValue
FH through the middle33%+4.3+2.0+2.8+9.1±3.1
FH slice through the middle22%−4.2+1.1±0.0−3.1±1.6
FH down the line16%+1.7−1.1+2.2+2.7±3.9
FH crosscourt14%+5.5−0.3+1.8+7.1±3.8
FH slice down the line8%−4.3+1.0±0.0−3.3±1.7

Lean FH through the middle: +5.9±2.3 per 100 returns v the current mix (125 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv JuanValue
BH through the middle49%+6.4+0.2+3.6+10.2±2.8
BH crosscourt23%+8.8−1.8+3.4+10.4±3.5
BH down the line8%+4.2−1.4+3.5+6.3±4.0
BH slice through the middle8%−4.2±0.0+0.4−3.8±1.6
BH slice down the line7%−8.4+1.3+0.6−6.6±2.2

Lean BH crosscourt: +3.3±3.1 per 100 returns v the current mix (106 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv JuanValue
BH crosscourt49%+1.0−0.5+1.1+1.7±3.2
BH through the middle29%−2.9−0.3−1.0−4.3±2.3
FH through the middle22%−2.9−0.1±0.0−3.0±2.1

Lean BH crosscourt: +2.8±1.8 per 100 returns v the current mix (41 returns charted)

Juan Carlos Prado Angelo returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv PedroValue
FH through the middle60%+4.3+2.8−1.7+5.4±3.1
FH crosscourt24%+5.5+3.1−0.5+8.1±4.0
FH down the line16%+1.7+2.4−1.2+2.9±4.1

Lean FH crosscourt: +2.5±3.6 per 100 returns v the current mix (94 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv PedroValue
BH through the middle52%+6.4+2.8−1.0+8.3±2.8
BH crosscourt31%+8.8+3.1+1.1+12.9±3.5
BH down the line15%+4.2+3.7−0.8+7.1±4.2
BH slice through the middle3%−4.2+0.2−0.6−4.6±1.8

Lean BH crosscourt: +3.8±2.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (185 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv PedroValue
BH through the middle38%−2.9+0.7+0.4−1.9±2.6
BH crosscourt22%+1.0−2.2−1.6−2.8±3.2
FH through the middle16%−2.9−0.4−1.7−5.0±2.4
BH down the line9%−0.2−2.2+0.7−1.7±4.4
FH inside-out8%+1.0−1.8−0.3−1.1±3.2

Lean BH through the middle: +0.8±1.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (141 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Rally plan

Edge, in points per 100 shots: the hitter's skill with the shot (own) plus how much the receiver usually gives up against it (theirs), both measured against the tour average on grass. Each player's grass record is shrunk toward their all-surface one, so a thin sample on it moves the numbers only a little.

Pedro Cachin

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to the middle · return+3.9±2.5+1.2+2.7
BH to the middle · rally+3.1±2.2+1.6+1.5
FH to their forehand · rally+3.0±3.1+0.9+2.2
FH to the middle · rally+2.8±2.4−0.5+3.3
FH to the middle · return+1.8±2.9+0.6+1.2
BH to their backhand · return+1.0±3.4−2.1+3.1

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their backhand · return +1−2.5±3.5−0.6−1.9
FH to their forehand · serve +1−2.1±4.1−1.6−0.5
FH to their backhand · rally−0.9±3.1−1.8+0.9
BH to their backhand · rally−0.9±2.3−1.5+0.6
BH to their backhand · return+1.0±3.4−2.1+3.1

Juan Carlos Prado Angelo

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to the middle · rally+4.0±2.1+2.5+1.4
FH to the middle · rally+3.1±2.3+2.0+1.1
BH to the middle · return+2.5±2.6+3.2−0.7
FH to their forehand · serve +1+0.5±4.1−1.0+1.5
BH to their forehand · rally±0.0±4.5+2.1−2.1
FH to their forehand · rally−0.2±3.2−0.9+0.7

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their backhand · serve +1−2.9±3.7−1.3−1.6
FH to their backhand · rally−1.2±3.0−1.1−0.1
BH to their backhand · rally−0.9±2.3−1.0±0.0
FH to the middle · return−0.6±2.8+1.5−2.2
BH to their backhand · serve +1−0.6±3.5−0.7+0.1

Against Juan Carlos Prado Angelo-like opponents

Pedro Cachin vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–63.1%35.5%