Alexey Vatutin and Michael Geerts will face off in the qualifications of the Lyon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 12. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Geerts who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Michael Geerts is the pick to win this match.
Michael Geerts -> 1.52
Alexey Vatutin -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Alexey Vatutin vs. Michael Geerts
There is no head to head record between Alexey Vatutin and Michael Geerts since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alexey Vatutin
Ranked no. 285, the Russian reached the qualifications after beating Mathys Erhard 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Alexey had a good straight sets win against Erhard (6-4 6-4). During the match, Vatutin scored 63 points vs Erhard’s 52. Alexey was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Vatutin couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Alexey Vatutin was very effective on serve to win 71% (30/42) of his 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Vatutin was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Erhard twice.
Vatutin has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (379-255). 6-10 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Vatutin has a composed 190-129 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Vatutin has an overall 8-16 win-loss record in 2021, 6-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Michael Geerts
Ranked no. 362, Michael got to the qualifications after beating Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Michael had a good straight sets win against Blancaneaux (6-3 6-3). During the match Geerts scored 69 points vs Blancaneaux’s 54. Geerts was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Geerts fired 5 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Michael Geerts lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Geerts put 68% of his first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. Michael broke Blancaneaux 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
The Belgian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Troisdorf.
Geerts has an aggregate 13-10 win-loss record in 2021, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vatutin | Geerts |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 |
| Pts | 63-52 | 69-54 |
| Total Points | 115 | 123 |
| Winners | 30 | 23 |
| %Winners | 48% | 33% |
Both Vatutin and Geerts played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Vatutin and Geerts have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Vatutin played 2 games more than Geerts. Vatutin scored 30 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Belgian made 23 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vatutin | Geerts |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 5 |
| 1st in | 42/59 | 34/50 |
| %1st in | 71% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 30/42 | 23/34 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | 10/16 |
| %2nd pts | 76% | 63% |
Vatutin didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Geerts bagged 5 aces . Vatutin won 71% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 76% of the points. On the other side, Geerts won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vatutin | Geerts |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/2 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 100% | 33% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Alexey broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Alexey had a solid display on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Michael broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Geerts conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Vatutin | |||
| Q1 Erhard |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 63-52 | 63-52 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 42/59 | 42/59 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 30/42 | 30/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | 13/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 76% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Geerts | |||
| Q1 Blancaneaux |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 69-54 | 69-54 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 34/50 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 23/34 | 23/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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