Matteo Martineau and Kenny de Schepper will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Cherbourg Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on JEAN JAURES. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Martineau who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matteo Martineau is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Martineau -> 1.35
Kenny de Schepper -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Martineau vs. Kenny de Schepper
This will be the 6th time that Matteo Martineau and Kenny de Schepper face off. The head to head is 3-2 for de Schepper (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, de Schepper won 6-3 7-5 in the qualifications in the Koblenz Challenger back in 2023.
Matteo Martineau
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-9 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-33 | 2-4 | 7-13 | 18-13 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-36 | 0-1 | 23-17 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 9-3 |
| 2022 | 36-31 | 2-1 | 23-20 | 11-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-26 | 4-4 | 27-15 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
Ranked no. 263, Martineau reached the 2nd round after beating Lukas Pokorny 4-6 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round against Pokorny, Martineau recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 7-5). During the match, Martineau scored 94 points vs Pokorny’s 84. Matteo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Regarding the service games, Martineau bagged 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Matteo Martineau was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (48/58) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Matteo broke Pokorny twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Martineau has winning record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (290-233). 9-6 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Martineau has an overall 94-78 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The French player best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Quimper Challenger.
Matteo has a compiled 10-8 win-loss record in 2025, 9-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cherbourg Challenger
Kenny de Schepper
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-9 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-31 | 14-9 | 4-8 | 13-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 7-4 | 8-14 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-35 | 6-7 | 18-16 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-24 | 22-8 | 5-5 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 674, Kenny got to the 2nd round after beating Viktor Durasovic 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (6-2 6-4). During the match de Schepper scored 67 points vs Durasovic’s 48. De Schepper was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, de Schepper blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kenny de Schepper lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, de Schepper put 73% of his first serves in, winning 69% (24/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the 2nd serve. Kenny broke Durasovic 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
De Schepper’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Monastir.
The French player has a composed 8-7 win-loss record in 2025, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cherbourg Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2014. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Martineau | de Schepper |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 18 |
| Pts | 94-84 | 67-48 |
| Total Points | 178 | 115 |
| Winners | 48 | 24 |
| %Winners | 51% | 36% |
Both Martineau and de Schepper played 1 match. At the moment, Matteo Martineau lost 1 set while Kenny de Schepper hasn’t dropped a set so far. Martineau has played 1 set more than de Schepper (3 vs 2). Therefore, Martineau played 14 games more than de Schepper. Martineau scored 48 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, De Schepper struck 24 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Martineau | de Schepper |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
| 1st in | 58/86 | 35/48 |
| %1st in | 67% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 48/58 | 24/35 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 17/28 | 9/13 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 69% |
Martineau made 9 aces . de Schepper fired 4 aces . Martineau won 83% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, de Schepper won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Martineau | de Schepper |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 71% |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 75% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Matteo broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Matteo conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. De Schepper conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Martineau | |||
| R1 Pokorny |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 94-84 | 94-84 | |
| Total points | 178 | 178 | |
| Winners | 48 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 58/86 | 58/86 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 48/58 | 48/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/28 | 17/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| de Schepper | |||
| R1 Durasovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-48 | 67-48 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/48 | 35/48 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 24/35 | 24/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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