Mark Lajal and Alexey Vatutin will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Brest Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 2 sets.
Mark Lajal -> 1.197
Alexey Vatutin -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Alexey Vatutin
This will be the 2nd time that Mark Lajal and Alexey Vatutin face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Vatutin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Vatutin won 6-4 1-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in M25 Grasse back in 2022.
Mark Lajal
41 - 21win/loss
146
145
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45-25 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 14-8 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 147, Lajal will start his run in the Brest Challenger after he played his last match in Stockholm where he lost 7-6(5) 6-7(5) 6-3 to Etcheverry in the 1st round on the 14th of October.
Lajal has a composed 41-21 win-loss record in 2025, 10-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Bloomfield Hills Challenger where he beat Andres Martin in the final 6-7(7) 7-5 7-6(9).
Talking about his overall career, Mark has an overall 176-111 record. He has a positive 50-32 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Brest Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Alexey Vatutin
36 - 25win/loss
383
136
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-28 | 2-1 | 25-15 | 11-12 | 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. 384, Alexey got to the 1st round after defeating Ricardas Berankis 6-4 7-6(7) and Leo Raquillet 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Raquillet (6-4 6-4). During the match Vatutin scored 65 points vs Raquillet’s 56. Alexey was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Vatutin scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Alexey Vatutin was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Russian broke Raquillet 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 53% of the points he played.
The Russian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Koszalin and M25 Poznan.
Vatutin has a composed 36-25 win-loss record in 2025, 9-9 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Brest Challenger
- Mae MaligeMalige – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Laslo DjereDjere – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Lucas PoullainPoullain (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – Arthur BouquierBouquier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Clement TaburTabur (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Harry WendelkenWendelken (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jonas ForejtekForejtek – (0-0) – H2H and prediction