Wednesday's Los Cabos round of 32 pits Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez against Sho Shimabukuro on hard. Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez has dropped 2 straight and sits at 6-4 over the last ten. Sho Shimabukuro limps in on a 2-match losing skid, just 5 wins in 10.
There is no history here: this is their first tour-level meeting.
The underlying stats are tight across the board — this is a matchup decided by a handful of points. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Mendez is exactly that — a lean.