Jesper De Jong and Valentin Vacherot will face off in the 2nd round of the San Marino Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Jesper De Jong who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jesper De Jong is the pick to win this match.
Jesper De Jong -> 1.53
Valentin Vacherot -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Jesper De Jong vs. Valentin Vacherot
There is no head to head record between Jesper De Jong and Valentin Vacherot since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jesper De Jong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-12 | 7-3 | 10-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-23 | 19-4 | 30-14 | 0-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-28 | 12-7 | 10-13 | 2-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-29 | 2-6 | 27-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 31-12 | 7-3 | 14-5 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 219, the Dutch got to the 2nd round after defeating Marco Trungelliti 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, De Jong had a good straight sets win against Trungelliti (6-3 6-4). During the match, De Jong scored 75 points vs Trungelliti’s 57. Jesper was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, De Jong fired 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jesper De Jong was very effective on serve to win 76% (31/41) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. De Jong broke Trungelliti twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
De Jong has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (142-89). 8-10 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, De Jong has a composed80-46 record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Dutch’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Traralgon Challenger.
De Jong has an overall 13-18 win-loss record in 2022, 8-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Marino Challenger
Jesper has never competed in this tournament before.
Valentin Vacherot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-9 | 18-2 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-32 | 6-4 | 49-25 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-22 | 27-12 | 18-8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-14 | 36-8 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 388, the French player got to the 2nd round after beating Mili Poljicak 6-2 6-3, Marius Copil 7-63 7-65 and Giulio Zeppieri 2-6 7-62 6-1.
In the 1st round against Zeppieri, The French player recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-62 6-1). During the match Vacherot scored 86 points vs Zeppieri’s 74. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Vacherot struck 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Valentin Vacherot lost the serve 4 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Vacherot put 61% of his first serves in, winning 67% (35/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the 2nd serve. Valentin broke Zeppieri 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Valentin’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir,M25 Quinta Do Lago and M15 Kottingbrunn.
Valentin has an overall 31-11 win-loss record in 2022, 16-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | De Jong | Vacherot |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 71 |
| Pts | 75-57 | 220-175 |
| Total Points | 132 | 395 |
| Winners | 31 | 108 |
| %Winners | 41% | 49% |
De Jong played 1 match while Vacherot competed in 3 matches. Vacherot started his run from the qualifications while De Jong had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Valentin Vacherot lost 1 set while Jesper De Jong hasn’t dropped a set so far. De Jong has played 5 set(s) less than Vacherot (2 vs 7). Therefore, De Jong played 52 games less than Vacherot. De Jong scored 31 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Vacherot scored 108 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | De Jong | Vacherot |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4.3 |
| 1st in | 41/60 | 136/204 |
| %1st in | 68% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 31/41 | 108/136 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 42/68 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 62% |
De Jong blasted 9 aces . Vacherot fired 13 aces (4.3 per match). De Jong won 76% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Vacherot won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | De Jong | Vacherot |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 7 |
| Converted | 2/10 | 7/12 |
| % Converted | 20% | 58% |
| Conceded | 1 | 11 |
| Saved | 1 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Jesper broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Jesper pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Valentin broke his opponents 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Vacherot conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| De Jong | |||
| R1 Trungelliti |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 75-57 | 75-57 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 41/60 | 41/60 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 31/41 | 31/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Vacherot | |||||
| Q1 Poljicak |
Q3 Copil |
R1 Zeppieri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 7-63 7-65 | 2-6 7-62 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 26 | 28 | 71 | |
| pts | 60-34 | 74-67 | 86-74 | 220-175 | |
| Total points | 94 | 141 | 160 | 395 | |
| Winners | 29 | 44 | 35 | 108 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 59% | 41% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/48 | 49/71 | 52/85 | 136/204 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 69% | 61% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 44/49 | 35/52 | 108/136 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 90% | 67% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 15/22 | 18/33 | 42/68 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 68% | 55% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 0/0 | 4/5 | 7/12 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 0% | 80% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 10 | 11 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 1/1 | 6/10 | 7 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 60% | 160% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
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