Vit Kopriva and Alexey Vatutin will square off in the quarter of the Szczecin Challenger for the 5^th 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 5^th 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

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 2^nd 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

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 2^nd 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

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