Kacper Zuk and Vitaliy Sachko will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Lille Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 Vitaliy Sachko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vitaliy Sachko is the pick to win this match.
Vitaliy Sachko -> 1.87
Kacper Zuk -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Kacper Zuk vs. Vitaliy Sachko
This will be the 2nd time that Kacper Zuk and Vitaliy Sachko fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Zuk (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Zuk won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in the Ismaning Challenger back in 2021.
Kacper Zuk
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-11 | 0-1 | 5-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 26-29 | 7-9 | 5-8 | 6-11 | 0-0 | 8-1 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 12-7 | 6-9 | 12-9 | 0-1 | 5-1 |
| 2021 | 41-25 | 5-5 | 17-8 | 15-8 | 2-2 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 31-9 | 6-2 | 10-4 | 15-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 257, Kacper got to the 2nd round after beating Evan Furness 6-4 4-0 ret..
In the 1st round against Furness, the Pole had a free pass after Furness retired on a 6-4 4-0 . scoreline.
Zuk has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (207-131). 3-5 on indoor hard courts in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Zuk has an aggregate50-27 win-loss record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Kacper’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Trimbach.
The Pole has an aggregate 9-9 win-loss record in 2023, 3-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lille Challenger
The Pole has never competed in this tournament before.
Vitaliy Sachko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-26 | 3-5 | 14-17 | 5-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-32 | 4-3 | 28-16 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 24-33 | 2-3 | 12-18 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 42-28 | 0-2 | 24-17 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 7-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 309, Sachko got to the 2nd round after beating Mathias Bourgue 6-3 6-1, Daniel Cukierman 6-1 6-2 and Zdenek Kolar 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round, Vitaliy had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-1 6-0). During the match Sachko scored 53 points vs Kolar’s 25. Vitaliy was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Sachko blasted 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Vitaliy Sachko was very effective on serve to win 72% (18/25) of his 1st serve and 67% (6/9) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Ukrainian broke Kolar 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
The Ukrainian has an overall 13-6 win-loss record in 2023, 11-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lille Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zuk | Sachko |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 44 |
| Pts | 55-40 | 180-99 |
| Total Points | 95 | 279 |
| Winners | 21 | 63 |
| %Winners | 38% | 35% |
Zuk played 1 match while Sachko competed in 3 matches. Sachko started his run from the qualifications while Zuk had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Zuk has played 3 set(s) less than Sachko (3 vs 6). Therefore, Zuk played 30 games less than Sachko. Kacper scored 21 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Ukrainian blasted 63 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zuk | Sachko |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 3 |
| 1st in | 25/40 | 81/127 |
| %1st in | 63% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 63/81 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 6/15 | 30/46 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 65% |
Zuk scored 5 aces . Sachko fired 9 aces (3 per match). Zuk won 84% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Sachko won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zuk | Sachko |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 15 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 15/29 |
| % Converted | 67% | 52% |
| Conceded | 4 | 8 |
| Saved | 3 | 6 |
| % Saved | 75% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Kacper broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Pole lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Sachko broke his opponents 15 times with a 52% conversion rate. Vitaliy conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zuk | |||
| R1 Furness |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 55-40 | 55-40 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 25/40 | 25/40 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 21/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/15 | 6/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sachko | |||||
| Q1 Bourgue |
Q3 Cukierman |
R1 Kolar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 6-1 6-2 | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 15 | 13 | 44 | |
| pts | 65-43 | 62-31 | 53-25 | 180-99 | |
| Total points | 108 | 93 | 78 | 279 | |
| Winners | 25 | 20 | 18 | 63 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 32% | 34% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/55 | 24/38 | 25/34 | 81/127 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 63% | 74% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 20/24 | 18/25 | 63/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 83% | 72% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 10/14 | 6/9 | 30/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 71% | 67% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 5/10 | 6/10 | 15/29 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 50% | 60% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 1/2 | 0/1 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 50% | 0% | 150% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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