Edas Butvilas and Gabriel Ghetu will play each other in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on Court 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Edas Butvilas who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Edas Butvilas is the pick to win this match.
Edas Butvilas -> 1.21
Gabriel Ghetu -> 3.84
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Prediction and head to head Edas Butvilas vs. Gabriel Ghetu
There is no head to head record between Edas Butvilas and Gabriel Ghetu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Edas Butvilas
31 - 23win/loss
198
194
WLLWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-25 | 22-10 | 12-11 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 32-32 | 20-12 | 2-10 | 10-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-26 | 28-12 | 26-11 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-23 | 14-9 | 9-9 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 4-10 | 1-2 | 2-4 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 195 (career-high), Butvilas will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in the Manacor Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-5 7-6(6) to Potenza in the quarter on the 4th of September.
The Lithuanian has an aggregate 31-23 win-loss record in 2026, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Lexington Challenger where he defeated Andre Ilagan in the final 6-2 1-6 7-6(6).
Talking about his overall career, The Lithuanian has an overall 154-119 record. He has a positive 82-45 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Edas has never competed in this tournament before.
Gabriel Ghetu
30 - 13win/loss
565
561
LWWLWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 30-14 | 12-1 | 18-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 44-21 | 6-3 | 34-16 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-14 | 2-3 | 22-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 625, Gabriel reached the 1st round after beating Kaya Arinc 6-1 6-1 and Alibek Kachmazov 7-6(1) 2-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, Ghetu defeated Kachmazov (7-61 2-6 6-4).During the match Ghetu scored less points (4) than Kachmazov. In fact, the world no. 195 won 104 points vs Kachmazov’s. That means that Ghetu was more focused during the important points. Gabriel was extremely aggressive to blast 52 winners.
About the serving games, Ghetu was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Gabriel Ghetu lost the serve 4 times and he saved 14 break points. Furthermore, Ghetu put 74% of his first serves in, winning 61% (52/85) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. Ghetu broke Kachmazov 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Romanian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
ATP Istanbul Challenger - Gabriel Ghetu's projected path
Ghetu’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Heraklion.
Gabriel has an aggregate 30-13 win-loss record in 2026, 12-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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