Dmitry Popko and Alexey Vatutin will face off in the 1st round of the Szczecin Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 6. 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 Dmitry Popko who should win in 3 sets.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.5
Alexey Vatutin -> 2.47
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Alexey Vatutin
This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Alexey Vatutin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Popko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Popko won 7-5 6-1 in the 1st round in the Prague 2 Challenger back in 2021.
Dmitry Popko
61 - 27win/loss
176
162
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 64-33 | 7-2 | 57-28 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-20 | 1-1 | 38-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-30 | 11-11 | 7-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-34 | 0-4 | 27-19 | 7-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-23 | 13-8 | 15-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 180, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Szczecin Challenger after he played his last match in the Genova Challenger where he lost 7-5 5-7 6-3 to Elahi Galan Riveros in the 1st round on the 3rd of September.
Dmitry has a compiled 61-26 win-loss record in 2024, 56-25 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Buenos Aires Challenger,M15 Sunrise,M15 Palm Coast,M25 Naples,M25 Recife,M25 Feira de Santana and the Brasov Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 484-283 record. He has a positive 322-167 record on clay.
Previously in the Szczecin Challenger
The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexey Vatutin
41 - 24win/loss
320
136
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-32 | 0-2 | 32-16 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-27 | 5-7 | 6-8 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 38-39 | 8-3 | 19-20 | 11-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-38 | 0-1 | 15-26 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-19 | 1-4 | 1-5 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 400, Alexey got to the 1st round after defeating Alafia Ayeni 6-3 2-6 6-3 and Sebastian Fanselow 6-4 3-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Vatutin defeated Fanselow (6-4 3-6 6-2). During the match Vatutin scored 82 points vs Fanselow’s 63. Vatutin was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Vatutin was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alexey Vatutin was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (35/46) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Alexey broke Fanselow 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alexey started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Russian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne,M25 Creteil and M25 Deauville.
Vatutin has a composed 39-24 win-loss record in 2024, 30-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Szczecin Challenger
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Hynek BartonBarton (4-6 6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Szymon Kielan/Filip PieczonkaKielan/Filip Pieczonka – Marco Bortolotti/Sergio Martos GornesBortolotti/Sergio Martos Gornes (2-6 7-5 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (3-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Guido Andreozzi/Theo ArribageAndreozzi/Theo Arribage – Daniel Altmaier/Luis David MartinezAltmaier/Luis David Martinez (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Lucas GerchGerch (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (6-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gianluca MagerMager – Max Hans RehbergHans Rehberg (6-3 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DebruDebru – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (2-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico CoriaCoria – Olaf PieczkowskiPieczkowski (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-2 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NovakNovak – Tomasz BerkietaBerkieta (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee – Pedro CachinCachin (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Federico CoriaCoria (0-1) – H2H and prediction