Vitaliy Sachko and Niels Visker will play each other in the qualifications of the Lyon Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vitaliy Sachko who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Vitaliy Sachko is the pick to win this match.
Vitaliy Sachko -> 1.49
Niels Visker -> 2.47

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Prediction and head to head Vitaliy Sachko vs. Niels Visker

There is no head to head record between Vitaliy Sachko and Niels Visker since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Vitaliy Sachko

Ranked no. 392, Vitaliy reached the qualifications after beating Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Vitaliy had a good straight sets win against Blancaneaux (6-2 6-4). During the match, Sachko scored 63 points vs Blancaneaux’s 43. Vitaliy was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Sachko bagged 4 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Vitaliy Sachko lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sachko put 73% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the 2nd serve. Sachko broke Blancaneaux 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Sachko has winning record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (310-222). 6-3 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sachko has a composed 55-38 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Sachko’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Trnava.

Vitaliy has an overall 23-26 win-loss record in 2024, 6-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Vitaliy has never competed in this tournament before.

Niels Visker

Ranked no. 496 (career-high), will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match in the Lyon Challenger where he overcame 6-2 7-6(4) to Klizan in the qualifications on the 10^th of November.

The Dutch has a compiled 45-26 win-loss record in 2024, 12-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

The Dutch’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M15 Antalya.

In terms of his career, Niels has an overall 139-79 record. He has a positive 12-5 record on indoor hard courts.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Sachko	Visker
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	21
Pts	63-43	66-54
Total Points	106	120
Winners	26	36
%Winners	41%	55%

Both Sachko and Visker played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sachko and Visker have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sachko played 3 games less than Visker. Sachko scored 26 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch recorded 36 winners (55%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Sachko	Visker
Aces	4	12
Avg per match	4	12
1st in	37/51	41/61
%1st in	73%	67%
1st pts	26/37	36/41
%1st pts	70%	88%
2nd pts	10/14	10/20
%2nd pts	71%	50%

Sachko managed to score 4 aces . Visker struck 12 aces . Sachko won 70% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Visker won 88% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Sachko	Visker
Won	4	2
Converted	4/6	2/2
% Converted	67%	100%
Conceded	4	1
Saved	3	1
% Saved	75%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Vitaliy broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Ukrainian lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Dutch broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Visker was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Sachko
	Q1 Blancaneaux	Total
Score	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	63-43	63-43
Total points	106	106
Winners	26	26
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	37/51	37/51
% 1st in	73%	73%
1st pts	26/37	26/37
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	10/14	10/14
% 2nd pts	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Visker
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	0%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

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