Valentin Vacherot and Keegan Smith will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Forli 3 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CAMPO MBM. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Keegan Smith who should win in 3 sets.
Keegan Smith -> 1.71
Valentin Vacherot -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Vacherot vs. Keegan Smith
There is no head to head record between Valentin Vacherot and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Valentin Vacherot
Ranked no. 566 (career-high), Valentin will start his run in the Forli 3 Challenger after he played his last match in the Forli 2 Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-3 to Sels in the qualifications on the 29th of November.
The French player has an overall 39-13 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Vacherot’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir,M15 Doha and M15 New Delhi.
Talking about his overall career, Vacherot has an overall 95-50 record. He has a negative 5-7 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Forli 3 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Keegan Smith
Ranked no. 675, Keegan got to the 1st round after beating Lorenzo Rottoli 6-3 7-5 and Moez Echargui 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Smith had a good straight sets win against Echargui (6-4 6-2). During the match Smith scored 70 points vs Echargui’s 57. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Smith recorded 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Keegan Smith lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Smith put 66% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the 2nd serve. Smith broke Echargui 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Smith started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Keegan’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Lubbock.
Keegan has a compiled 15-4 win-loss record in 2021, 7-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Forli 3 Challenger
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Alexander ErlerErler (3-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – David PoljakPoljak (5-7 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Marius CopilCopil (6-74 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Julian LenzLenz (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aldin SetkicSetkic – Federico GaioGaio (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo ViolaViola – Lukas RosolRosol (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin LockLock – Daniele CapecchiCapecchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Luca PotenzaPotenza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Pavel KotovKotov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – Jelle SelsSels (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – Valentin VacherotVacherot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Savriyan DanilovDanilov – Mirza BasicBasic (0-0) – H2H and prediction