Alexey Vatutin and Titouan Droguet will clash against each other in the quarter of the Cherbourg Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 4:00 pm on JEAN JAURÉS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Titouan Droguet who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Titouan Droguet is the pick to win this match.
Titouan Droguet -> 1.88
Alexey Vatutin -> 1.88

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Prediction and head to head Alexey Vatutin vs. Titouan Droguet

There is no head to head record between Alexey Vatutin and Titouan Droguet since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Alexey Vatutin

Ranked no. 287, Alexey got to the quarter after defeating Calvin Hemery 7-6³ 6-3, Mathias Bourgue 3-6 6-3 6-3, Clement Chidekh 6-3 6-1 and Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-2 7-6².

In the 2^nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Blancaneaux (6-2 7-6²). During the match, Vatutin scored 77 points vs Blancaneaux’s 61. Vatutin was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Vatutin scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alexey Vatutin was quite efficient on serve to win 84% (21/25) of his 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Vatutin broke Blancaneaux 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alexey started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.

Vatutin has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (355-273). 8-5 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Vatutin has an aggregate 108-88 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Alexey’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Manacor.

Alexey has an overall 11-6 win-loss record in 2023, 8-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cherbourg Challenger

Titouan Droguet

Ranked no. 296, the French player got to the quarter after beating Jurgen Briand 6-3 5-7 7-6⁸, Jakub Mensik 6-3 6-1, John Millman 6-4 6-3 and Joris De Loore 7-5 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Droguet had a good straight sets win against De Loore (7-5 6-3). During the match Droguet scored 64 points vs De Loore’s 53. Titouan was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Droguet struck 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Titouan Droguet was very efficient on serve to win 77% (33/43) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Droguet broke De Loore 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Titouan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Titouan has a composed 4-2 win-loss record in 2023, 4-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Vatutin	Droguet
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	9	9
Tot Games	86	90
Pts	310-256	315-263
Total Points	566	578
Winners	107	141
%Winners	35%	45%

Both Vatutin and Droguet played 4 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Alexey Vatutin surrendered 1 set, while Titouan Droguet lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Vatutin and Droguet have played the same amount of sets 9. However, Vatutin played 4 games less than Droguet. Vatutin scored 107 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Droguet fired 141 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Vatutin	Droguet
Aces	8	30
Avg per match	2	7.5
1st in	141/279	185/309
%1st in	51%	60%
1st pts	107/141	141/185
%1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	74/138	66/124
%2nd pts	54%	53%

Vatutin bagged 8 aces (2 per match). Droguet managed to score 30 aces (7.5 per match). Vatutin won 76% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Droguet won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Vatutin	Droguet
Won	14	13
Converted	14/35	13/26
% Converted	40%	50%
Conceded	14	19
Saved	9	14
% Saved	64%	74%
Times Broken	5	5

Vatutin broke his opponents 14 times with a 40% conversion rate. Vatutin conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. Titouan broke his opponents 13 times with a 50% conversion rate. Droguet conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 74% of the break points that he conceded.

Vatutin
	Q1 Hemery	Q3 Bourgue	R1 Chidekh	R2 Blancaneaux	Total
Score	7-63 6-3	3-6 6-3 6-3	6-3 6-1	6-2 7-62
Tot Set	2	3	2	2	9
Tot Games	22	27	16	21	86
pts	81-69	90-82	62-44	77-61	310-256
Total points	150	172	106	138	566
Winners	27	37	22	21	107
%Winners	33%	41%	35%	27%	35%
SERVE
Aces	1	3	3	1	8
Double Faults	4	1	1	2	8
1st in	38/78	45/89	33/55	25/57	141/279
% 1st in	49%	51%	60%	44%	51%
1st pts	27/38	37/45	22/33	21/25	107/141
% 1st pts	71%	82%	67%	84%	76%
2nd pts	25/40	19/44	11/22	19/32	74/138
% 2nd pts	63%	43%	50%	59%	54%
Breaks
Won	2	4	5	3	14
Converted	2/10	4/9	5/7	3/9	14/35
Converted %	20%	44%	71%	33%	40%
Conceded	5	5	2	2	14
Saved	4/5	3/5	1/2	1/2	9
Saved %	80%	60%	50%	50%	60%
Times Broken	1	2	1	1	5

Droguet
	Q1 Briand	Q3 Mensik	R1 Millman	R2 De Loore	Total
Score	6-3 5-7 7-68	6-3 6-1	6-4 6-3	7-5 6-3
Tot Set	3	2	2	2	9
Tot Games	34	16	19	21	90
pts	124-117	60-39	67-54	64-53	315-263
Total points	241	99	121	117	578
Winners	56	25	27	33	141
%Winners	45%	42%	40%	52%	45%
SERVE
Aces	8	5	9	8	30
Double Faults	2	0	1	1	4
1st in	79/134	30/50	33/65	43/60	185/309
% 1st in	59%	60%	51%	72%	60%
1st pts	56/79	25/30	27/33	33/43	141/185
% 1st pts	71%	83%	82%	77%	76%
2nd pts	28/55	11/20	16/32	11/17	66/124
% 2nd pts	51%	55%	50%	65%	53%
Breaks
Won	3	4	3	3	13
Converted	3/7	4/7	3/5	3/7	13/26
Converted %	43%	57%	60%	43%	50%
Conceded	10	3	5	1	19
Saved	7/10	3/3	4/5	0/1	14
Saved %	70%	100%	80%	0%	63%
Times Broken	3	0	1	1	5

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