Dmitry Popko and Alexey Vatutin will square off in the 1st round of the Szczecin Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 2. 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 Dmitry Popko who should win in 3 sets.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.5
Alexey Vatutin -> 2.47
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Alexey Vatutin
This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Alexey Vatutin square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Popko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Popko won 7-5 6-1 in the 1st round in the Prague 2 Challenger back in 2021.
Dmitry Popko
61 - 26win/loss
180
162
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 61-26 | 5-1 | 56-25 | 0-0 | 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, Dmitry 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 year was getting to 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
Dmitry has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexey Vatutin
39 - 24win/loss
400
136
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-24 | 0-1 | 30-14 | 9-9 | 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, Vatutin 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. Alexey was very 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 pretty efficient 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.
Vatutin’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne,M25 Creteil and M25 Deauville.
The Russian has an overall 39-24 win-loss record in 2024, 30-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Szczecin Challenger
- Gabriel DebruDebru – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-3 7-66) – 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
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NovakNovak – Tomasz BerkietaBerkieta (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee – Pedro CachinCachin (6-4 6-3) – 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
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Lucas GerchGerch (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Federico CoriaCoria (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-1) – H2H and prediction