Cristian Garin and Valentin Vacherot will play each other in the 2nd round of the Iasi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cristian Garin who should win in 3 sets.
Cristian Garin -> 1.47
Valentin Vacherot -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Cristian Garin vs. Valentin Vacherot
There is no head to head record between Cristian Garin and Valentin Vacherot since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Cristian Garin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-13 | 2-3 | 9-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-25 | 22-12 | 18-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-23 | 4-5 | 9-11 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-18 | 2-6 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-12 | 2-7 | 15-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 124, Christian reached the 2nd round after defeating Dragos Nicolae Madaras 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Chilean had a good straight sets win against Nicolae Madaras (7-5 6-2). During the match, Garin scored 66 points vs Nicolae Madaras’s 43. Garin was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Garin recorded 4 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Cristian Garin was quite efficient on serve to win 88% (30/34) of his 1st serve and 83% (10/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Christian broke Nicolae Madaras 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Garin has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (340-218). 12-9 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Garin has a compiled 260-143 record in the last years on clay.
Garin’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Noumea Challenger.
Garin has an aggregate 24-13 win-loss record in 2023, 12-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Garin has never competed in this tournament before.
Valentin Vacherot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-10 | 18-2 | 15-8 | 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. 294, Vacherot got to the 2nd round after beating Joris De Loore 7-64 7-5.
In the 1st round, Vacherot had a good straight sets win against De Loore (7-64 7-5). During the match Vacherot scored 87 points vs De Loore’s 78. Valentin was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Vacherot was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Valentin Vacherot lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Vacherot put 71% of his first serves in, winning 73% (43/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Vacherot broke De Loore 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Vacherot’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Montauban and Bresse.
Valentin has a compiled 27-14 win-loss record in 2023, 25-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Garin | Vacherot |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 25 |
| Pts | 66-43 | 87-78 |
| Total Points | 109 | 165 |
| Winners | 30 | 43 |
| %Winners | 45% | 49% |
Both Garin and Vacherot played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Garin and Vacherot have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Garin played 5 games less than Vacherot. Christian scored 30 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Valentin scored 43 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Garin | Vacherot |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 34/46 | 59/83 |
| %1st in | 74% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 43/59 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 10/12 | 12/24 |
| %2nd pts | 83% | 50% |
Garin struck 4 aces . Vacherot didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Garin won 88% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 83% of the points. On the other side, Vacherot won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Garin | Vacherot |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 60% | 27% |
| Conceded | 0 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 9 |
| % Saved | 0% | 82% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Chilean broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Christian quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Valentin broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.
| Garin | |||
| R1 Nicolae | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 66-43 | 66-43 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/46 | 34/46 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 30/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/12 | 10/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 83% | 83% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Vacherot | |||
| R1 De Loore | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 87-78 | 87-78 | |
| Total points | 165 | 165 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 59/83 | 59/83 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 43/59 | 43/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 12/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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