Max Houkes and Valentin Vacherot will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Rome Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on CAMPO 5. 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 Valentin Vacherot who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Valentin Vacherot is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Vacherot -> 1.55
Max Houkes -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Max Houkes vs. Valentin Vacherot
This will be the 2nd time that Max Houkes and Valentin Vacherot face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Vacherot (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Vacherot won 6-3 6-4 in the final in M15 Kottingbrunn back in 2022.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-11 | 7-3 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303, the Dutch will start his run in the Rome Challenger after he played his last match in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Berrettini in the qualifications on the 18th of April.
Max has an overall 10-10 win-loss record in 2023, 9-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Dutch’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Palmanova.
Talking about his overall career, The Dutch has an overall 175-88 record. He has a positive 161-71 record on clay.
Previously in the Rome Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Valentin Vacherot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-11 | 18-2 | 15-9 | 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. 360, Valentin got to the 1st round after beating Evgeny Karlovskiy 6-1 6-4 and Ugo Blanchet 4-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Blanchet, The French player recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Vacherot scored 93 points vs Blanchet’s 81. Valentin was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Vacherot blasted 5 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Valentin Vacherot was quite effective on serve to win 73% (41/56) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Vacherot broke Blanchet 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Valentin has an overall 6-9 win-loss record in 2023, 4-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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