Fabian Marozsan and Alexey Vatutin will fight against each other in the quarter of the Banja Luka Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 2:15 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fabian Marozsan who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Fabian Marozsan is the pick to win this match.
Fabian Marozsan -> 1.36
Alexey Vatutin -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Fabian Marozsan vs. Alexey Vatutin
This will be the 2nd time that Fabian Marozsan and Alexey Vatutin play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Marozsan (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Marozsan won 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Milan Challenger back in June 2022.
Fabian Marozsan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-18 | 11-7 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-27 | 7-5 | 32-13 | 5-7 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-19 | 10-3 | 29-12 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-21 | 4-2 | 33-16 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-7 | 6-2 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 239, the Hungarian got to the quarter after beating Sebastian Fanselow 6-4 6-3 and Viktor Durasovic 7-5 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Hungarian had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (7-5 6-3). During the match, Marozsan scored 78 points vs Durasovic’s 62. Marozsan was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Marozsan scored just 1 ace throughout the match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Fabian Marozsan lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Marozsan put 74% of his first serves in, winning 63% (34/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the 2nd serve. Marozsan broke Durasovic 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fabian hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Marozsan has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 68% of his matches (161-76). 24-10 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Marozsan has an overall124-62 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Hungarian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Loule.
Fabian has a composed 34-14 win-loss record in 2022, 24-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Banja Luka Challenger
The Hungarian has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexey Vatutin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-18 | 0-1 | 21-8 | 9-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-27 | 5-7 | 6-8 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 38-39 | 8-3 | 19-20 | 11-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-38 | 0-1 | 15-26 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-19 | 1-4 | 1-5 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 284, Vatutin got to the quarter after defeating Duje Ajdukovic 4-6 6-2 6-2 and Gonzalo Villanueva 6-4 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Alexey had a good straight sets win against Villanueva (6-4 6-0). During the match Vatutin scored 59 points vs Villanueva’s 40. Vatutin was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Vatutin bagged 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexey Vatutin lost the serve once. Furthermore, Vatutin put 64% of his first serves in, winning 83% (24/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Villanueva 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alexey has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Vatutin’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Grenoble and M25 Portimao.
Vatutin has a compiled 36-26 win-loss record in 2022, 19-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Banja Luka Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Marozsan | Vatutin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 40 | 42 |
| Pts | 148-117 | 151-114 |
| Total Points | 265 | 265 |
| Winners | 65 | 62 |
| %Winners | 44% | 41% |
Both Marozsan and Vatutin played 2 matches. At the moment, Alexey Vatutin conceded 1 set while Fabian Marozsan hasn’t dropped a set so far. Marozsan has played 1 set(s) less than Vatutin (4 vs 5). Therefore, Marozsan played 2 games less than Vatutin. Fabian scored 65 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian managed to score 62 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Marozsan | Vatutin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 92/127 | 87/128 |
| %1st in | 72% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 65/92 | 62/87 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 18/35 | 26/41 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 63% |
Marozsan fired 5 aces (2.5 per match). Vatutin recorded 5 aces (2.5 per match). Marozsan won 71% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Vatutin won 71% of the points on 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 | Marozsan | Vatutin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 9 |
| Converted | 8/20 | 9/15 |
| % Converted | 40% | 60% |
| Conceded | 7 | 6 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 57% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Fabian broke his opponents 8 times with a 40% conversion rate. Fabian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Vatutin broke his opponents 9 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Marozsan | ||||
| R1 Fanselow |
R2 Durasovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 21 | 40 | |
| pts | 70-55 | 78-62 | 148-117 | |
| Total points | 125 | 140 | 265 | |
| Winners | 31 | 34 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/54 | 54/73 | 92/127 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 74% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 34/54 | 65/92 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 63% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 10/19 | 18/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 53% | 51% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 5/10 | 8/20 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 50% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 3/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 50% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Vatutin | ||||
| R1 Ajdukovic |
R2 Villanueva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-2 6-2 | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 16 | 42 | |
| pts | 92-74 | 59-40 | 151-114 | |
| Total points | 166 | 99 | 265 | |
| Winners | 38 | 24 | 62 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 58/83 | 29/45 | 87/128 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 64% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 38/58 | 24/29 | 62/87 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 83% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/25 | 7/16 | 26/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 44% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/8 | 9/15 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 63% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 0/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 0% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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