Alexey Vatutin breezes past Constant Lestienne 6-2 6-0 in the 1st round in the Maia Challenger on Tuesday after playing a extraordinary match to come up against Carlos Taberner in the 2nd round.
Live score progression and stats
Vatutin started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Lestienne in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Anyhow, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Vatutin to win the set as the French player found the way to break back in the 4th (1-3) game. Vatutin kept his focus to break Constant in the 7th (5-2) game before conquering the set (6-2).
They played 63 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 11 points more than Lestienne (37-26). Alexey conceded 15 points on serve (20-15). In addition, on the other side, Lestienne conceded 17 points on serve (11-17).
Constant didn’t manage to offer a meaningful resistance and the Russian won the set 6-0.
The Russian was flawless in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 2nd (2-0 15-40) and the 5th game (4-0 15-40). On the other side, Lestienne was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 6th game (0-5 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 33 points. The Russian was the one to win the set after conquering 17 more points than Lestienne (25-8). The Russian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (13-4). On the losing side, Constant conceded 12 points on serve (4-12).
Alexey will add to his prize money $ 340 after winning this match. He has won already $ 860 after this win. If he wins the next match, Alexey will add $ 600 to his earnings to get in total $ 1,460 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 61 points vs. the French player’s 37.
The Russian was pretty effective at converting 60% of the break points that he procured (6/10). On the other side, Lestienne had a tough time converting his break points (only 11% – 1/9). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Vatutin and Lestienne is 6-2 for Constant.
Draw and next match H2H: Alexey Vatutin vs. Carlos Taberner – stats
Vatutin will come up against Taberner in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Alexey Vatutin and Carlos Taberner fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vatutin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Vatutin won 6-1 6-1 in the 1st round in Cherbourg Challenger back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Maia Challenger
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-2 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Julian LenzLenz (6-1 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Pedro SousaSousa – Maxime HamouHamou (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Pavel KotovKotov (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (2-6 7-5 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-5 3-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-3 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Daniel MasurMasur (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-3 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (5-7 7-67 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Paolo LorenziLorenzi – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Gastao EliasElias – Pedro SousaSousa (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Quentin HalysHalys – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H details and stats