Alexey Vatutin and Louis Tessa will clash against each other in the qualifications of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT SAINT-TROPEZ. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexey Vatutin who should win in 2 sets.
Alexey Vatutin -> 1.147
Louis Tessa -> 4.95
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Prediction and head to head Alexey Vatutin vs. Louis Tessa
This will be the 2nd time that Alexey Vatutin and Louis Tessa fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0
for Tessa (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.The last time that they squared off, Tessa won 7-6(4) 6-1 in the qualifications in the St. Tropez Challenger back in 2024.
Alexey Vatutin
33 - 22win/loss
383
136
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-29 | 2-1 | 25-15 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-32 | 0-2 | 32-16 | 20-14 | 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 |
Ranked no. 317, the Russian got to the qualifications after beating Arthur Reymond 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Reymond (6-3 6-4). During the match, Vatutin scored 62 points vs Reymond’s 49. Vatutin was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Vatutin scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexey Vatutin lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Vatutin put 65% of his first serves in, winning 64% (21/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the 2nd serve. Vatutin broke Reymond 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Vatutin has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (363-303). 1-0 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Vatutin has an overall 40-36 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Vatutin’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Koszalin and M25 Poznan.
The Russian has an overall 33-22 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
Louis Tessa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-21 | 5-9 | 8-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-23 | 13-13 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-20 | 28-15 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-5 | 4-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-18 | 16-11 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 874, the French player got to the qualifications after defeating Karan Singh 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Singh (7-5 6-3). During the match Tessa scored 80 points vs Singh’s 61. Louis was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Tessa scored 3 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Louis Tessa was very efficient on serve to win 71% (27/38) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Louis broke Singh 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Louis has an aggregate 12-18 win-loss record in 2025, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vatutin | Tessa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 21 |
| Pts | 62-49 | 80-61 |
| Total Points | 111 | 141 |
| Winners | 21 | 27 |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% |
Both Vatutin and Tessa played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Vatutin and Tessa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Vatutin played 2 games less than Tessa. Alexey scored 21 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Louis struck 27 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vatutin | Tessa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 38/60 |
| %1st in | 65% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 21/33 | 27/38 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 15/22 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 68% |
Vatutin made 1 ace . Tessa also made 3 aces . Vatutin won 64% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Tessa won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vatutin | Tessa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/6 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 83% | 33% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Vatutin broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Alexey dropped his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Tessa broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Louis conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Vatutin | |||
| Q1 Reymond | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 62-49 | 62-49 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 21/33 | 21/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Tessa | |||
| Q1 Singh | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 80-61 | 80-61 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 38/60 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 27/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 15/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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