James Kent Trotter and Eliakim Coulibaly will square off in the qualifications of the Cherbourg Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on TOURLAVILLE. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Kent Trotter who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Kent Trotter is the pick to win this match.
James Kent Trotter -> 1.5
Eliakim Coulibaly -> 2.47
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Prediction and head to head James Kent Trotter vs. Eliakim Coulibaly
There is no head to head record between James Kent Trotter and Eliakim Coulibaly since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
James Kent Trotter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-20 | 19-12 | 1-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-13 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-11 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 428 (career-high), Kent Trotter reached the qualifications after beating Alexandre Aubriot 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, James had a good straight sets win against Aubriot (6-3 6-2). During the match, Kent Trotter scored 51 points vs Aubriot’s 32. Kent Trotter was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kent Trotter blasted 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. James Kent Trotter was very efficient on serve to win 86% (25/29) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. James broke Aubriot 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Kent Trotter has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (52-39). 2-1 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kent Trotter has a compiled16-12 record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
James has a composed 3-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cherbourg Challenger
Kent Trotter has never competed in this tournament before.
Eliakim Coulibaly
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 50-18 | 33-9 | 7-4 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 36-17 | 0-0 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-16 | 32-10 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-11 | 28-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 447, the Ivorian reached the qualifications after beating Maxence Rivet 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Eliakim had a good straight sets win against Rivet (6-3 6-3). During the match Coulibaly scored 56 points vs Rivet’s 40. Eliakim was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Coulibaly fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Eliakim Coulibaly was exceptionally effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Ivorian broke Rivet 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Eliakim’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Bressuire.
Coulibaly has an overall 5-2 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kent Trotter | Coulibaly |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 18 |
| Pts | 51-32 | 56-40 |
| Total Points | 83 | 96 |
| Winners | 25 | 25 |
| %Winners | 49% | 45% |
Both Kent Trotter and Coulibaly played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kent Trotter and Coulibaly have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kent Trotter played 1 game less than Coulibaly. James scored 25 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Coulibaly managed to score 25 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kent Trotter | Coulibaly |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 29/44 | 30/52 |
| %1st in | 66% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 25/30 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 14/22 |
| %2nd pts | 73% | 64% |
Kent Trotter fired 5 aces . Coulibaly managed to score 2 aces . Kent Trotter won 86% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Coulibaly won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kent Trotter | Coulibaly |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 75% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Japanese extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Eliakim broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Coulibaly conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kent Trotter | |||
| Q1 Aubriot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 51-32 | 51-32 | |
| Total points | 83 | 83 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 29/44 | 29/44 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 25/29 | 25/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 11/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Coulibaly | |||
| Q1 Rivet |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 56-40 | 56-40 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/52 | 30/52 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 25/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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