Vit Kopriva and Alexey Vatutin will square off in the quarter of the Szczecin Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vit Kopriva who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vit Kopriva is the pick to win this match.
Vit Kopriva -> 1.173
Alexey Vatutin -> 4.6
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Prediction and head to head Vit Kopriva vs. Alexey Vatutin
This will be the 5th time that Vit Kopriva and Alexey Vatutin clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Kopriva (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Kopriva won 6-3 3-6 6-4 in the qualifications in Belgrade back in 2021.
Vit Kopriva
28 - 22win/loss
149
111
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2024 | 34-26 | 13-9 | 16-15 | 2-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 35-27 | 1-4 | 34-21 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 39-28 | 7-5 | 30-18 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 36-26 | 1-3 | 32-21 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 24-15 | 0-0 | 17-11 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 143, the Czech reached the quarter after beating Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 2-6 7-5 6-1 and Sebastian Fanselow 6-3 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Kopriva had a good straight sets win against Fanselow (6-3 6-0). During the match, Kopriva scored 62 points vs Fanselow’s 38. Kopriva was exceptionally aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kopriva fired 3 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Vit Kopriva was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (16/22) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Vit broke Fanselow 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Czech has dropped 1 set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Kopriva has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (335-235). 10-11 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kopriva has an overall245-161 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
Kopriva’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger.
The Czech has a compiled 28-22 win-loss record in 2024, 10-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Szczecin Challenger
Alexey Vatutin
41 - 24win/loss
338
136
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 50-30 | 0-2 | 32-15 | 18-13 | 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 quarter after beating Alafia Ayeni 6-3 2-6 6-3, Sebastian Fanselow 6-4 3-6 6-2, Dmitry Popko 6-4 5-7 7-6(2) and Michael Vrbensky 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Alexey had a good straight sets win against Vrbensky (6-3 6-2). During the match Vatutin scored 79 points vs Vrbensky’s 60. Vatutin was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Vatutin couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alexey Vatutin lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Vatutin put 76% of his first serves in, winning 64% (30/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the 2nd serve. Alexey broke Vrbensky 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alexey started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 3 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Vatutin’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne,M25 Creteil and M25 Deauville.
Alexey has an overall 41-24 win-loss record in 2024, 32-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Szczecin Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kopriva | Vatutin |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 4 |
Tot Set | 5 | 11 |
Tot Games | 42 | 105 |
Pts | 136-106 | 390-338 |
Total Points | 242 | 728 |
Winners | 49 | 148 |
%Winners | 36% | 38% |
Kopriva played 2 matches while Vatutin competed in 4 matches. Vatutin started his run from the qualifications while Kopriva had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Vit Kopriva lost 1 set, while Alexey Vatutin conceded 3 sets. Kopriva has played 6 set(s) less than Vatutin (5 vs 11). Therefore, Kopriva played 63 games less than Vatutin. Kopriva scored 49 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Alexey bagged 148 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kopriva | Vatutin |
---|---|---|
Aces | 5 | 1 |
Avg per match | 2.5 | 0.3 |
1st in | 67/106 | 233/345 |
%1st in | 63% | 68% |
1st pts | 49/67 | 148/233 |
%1st pts | 73% | 64% |
2nd pts | 27/39 | 61/112 |
%2nd pts | 69% | 54% |
Kopriva struck 5 aces (2.5 per match). Vatutin recorded 1 ace (0.3 per match). Kopriva won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Vatutin won 64% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kopriva | Vatutin |
---|---|---|
Won | 9 | 21 |
Converted | 9/16 | 21/51 |
% Converted | 56% | 41% |
Conceded | 5 | 41 |
Saved | 2 | 26 |
% Saved | 40% | 63% |
Times Broken | 3 | 15 |
Kopriva broke his opponents 9 times with a 56% conversion rate. Vit surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponents 21 times with a 41% conversion rate. Alexey conceded his serve 15 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
Kopriva | ||||
R1 Moreno De Alboran |
R2 Fanselow |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 2-6 7-5 6-1 | 6-3 6-0 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Tot Games | 27 | 15 | 42 | |
pts | 74-68 | 62-38 | 136-106 | |
Total points | 142 | 100 | 242 | |
Winners | 33 | 16 | 49 | |
%Winners | 45% | 26% | 36% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
1st in | 45/68 | 22/38 | 67/106 | |
% 1st in | 66% | 58% | 63% | |
1st pts | 33/45 | 16/22 | 49/67 | |
% 1st pts | 73% | 73% | 73% | |
2nd pts | 17/23 | 10/16 | 27/39 | |
% 2nd pts | 74% | 63% | 69% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 6/9 | 9/16 | |
Converted % | 43% | 67% | 56% | |
Conceded | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Saved | 0/2 | 2/3 | 2 | |
Saved % | 0% | 67% | 34% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Vatutin | ||||||
Q1 Ayeni |
Q3 Fanselow |
R1 Popko |
R2 Vrbensky |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 2-6 6-3 | 6-4 3-6 6-2 | 6-4 5-7 7-62 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
Tot Games | 26 | 27 | 35 | 17 | 105 | |
pts | 103-94 | 82-63 | 126-121 | 79-60 | 390-338 | |
Total points | 197 | 145 | 247 | 139 | 728 | |
Winners | 36 | 35 | 47 | 30 | 148 | |
%Winners | 35% | 43% | 37% | 38% | 38% | |
SERVE | ||||||
Aces | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 13 | |
1st in | 57/87 | 46/69 | 83/127 | 47/62 | 233/345 | |
% 1st in | 66% | 67% | 65% | 76% | 68% | |
1st pts | 36/57 | 35/46 | 47/83 | 30/47 | 148/233 | |
% 1st pts | 63% | 76% | 57% | 64% | 64% | |
2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/23 | 20/44 | 9/15 | 61/112 | |
% 2nd pts | 53% | 70% | 45% | 60% | 54% | |
Breaks | ||||||
Won | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 21 | |
Converted | 5/16 | 4/5 | 8/17 | 4/13 | 21/51 | |
Converted % | 31% | 80% | 47% | 31% | 41% | |
Conceded | 10 | 4 | 23 | 4 | 41 | |
Saved | 6/10 | 2/4 | 15/23 | 3/4 | 26 | |
Saved % | 60% | 50% | 65% | 75% | 125% | |
Times Broken | 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 15 |
Head 2 Head
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