Juan Pablo Varillas and Nicolas Mejia meet in the semifinal at Bogota on Saturday. Nicolas Mejia brings a 3-match winning streak into this one, 5-5 across the last ten. Juan Pablo Varillas has won 3 in a row and 6 of the last 10 overall.
Nicolas Mejia has had the better of this rivalry, winning 1 of 1 against Juan Pablo Varillas. On clay specifically it reads 1-0 Mejia — worth more than the overall number this week.
There's a wide gap in our ratings on clay, and our number follows from it. Varillas comes in off a compressed schedule; Mejia comes in off a compressed schedule. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Mejia is exactly that — a lean.