Andre Ilagan and Khumoun Sultanov will face off in the 2nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:30 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 Andre Ilagan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andre Ilagan is the pick to win this match.
Andre Ilagan -> 1.44
Khumoun Sultanov -> 2.55
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Prediction and head to head Andre Ilagan vs. Khumoun Sultanov
There is no head to head record between Andre Ilagan and Khumoun Sultanov since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Andre Ilagan
45 - 29win/loss
203
181
WLLLWWLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 45-29 | 30-23 | 0-0 | 12-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 35-33 | 30-27 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 50-29 | 41-22 | 0-0 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-6 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-7 | 15-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 203, the American reached the 2nd round after defeating Mert Alkaya 6-4 3-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, The American defeated Alkaya (6-4 3-6 6-1). During the match, Ilagan scored 87 points vs Alkaya’s 73. Ilagan was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ilagan managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Andre Ilagan was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (36/41) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ilagan broke Alkaya 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Ilagan has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 61% of his matches (164-104). 30-23 on hard in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ilagan has a compiled135-84 record in the last 5 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Maanshan,the Tyler Challenger,the Lexington Challenger and the Brownsburg Challenger.
The American has an aggregate 45-29 win-loss record in 2026, 30-23 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Khumoun Sultanov
39 - 16win/loss
431
215
WWWLLLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 39-16 | 18-7 | 21-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 15-20 | 12-14 | 2-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 74-23 | 55-14 | 19-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-24 | 28-9 | 7-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2022 | 35-22 | 4-3 | 25-13 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 431, the Uzbek reached the 2nd round after defeating Xiaoyin Yang 6-1 6-4, Saba Purtseladze 6-4 7-6(6) and Luca Castelnuovo 7-6(5) 7-6(5).
In the 1st round, The Uzbek had a good straight sets win against Castelnuovo (7-65 7-65). During the match Sultanov scored 100 points vs Castelnuovo’s 88. The Uzbek was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Sultanov bagged 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Khumoun Sultanov was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (39/47) of his 1st serve and 81% (22/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.
The Uzbek’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Zahra,M15 Kranjska Gora and M25 Zagreb.
Khumoun has an aggregate 39-16 win-loss record in 2026, 18-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Sultanov has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ilagan | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 66 |
| Pts | 87-73 | 237-190 |
| Total Points | 160 | 427 |
| Winners | 36 | 107 |
| %Winners | 41% | 45% |
Ilagan played 1 match while Sultanov competed in 3 matches. Sultanov started his run from the qualifications while Ilagan had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Andre Ilagan surrendered 1 set while Khumoun Sultanov hasn’t conceded a set so far. Ilagan has played 3 set(s) less than Sultanov (3 vs 6). Therefore, Ilagan played 40 games less than Sultanov. Andre scored 36 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Khumoun made 107 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ilagan | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 35 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 11.7 |
| 1st in | 41/69 | 122/187 |
| %1st in | 59% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 36/41 | 107/122 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 42/65 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 65% |
Ilagan blasted 8 aces . Sultanov fired 35 aces (11.7 per match). Ilagan won 88% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Sultanov won 88% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ilagan | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 4/29 |
| % Converted | 30% | 14% |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Andre conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Khumoun broke his opponents 4 times with a 14% conversion rate. Khumoun was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Ilagan | |||
| R1 Alkaya |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 87-73 | 87-73 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 41/69 | 41/69 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 36/41 | 36/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 16/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sultanov | |||||
| Q1 Yang |
Q3 Purtseladze |
R1 Castelnuovo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | 6-4 7-66 | 7-65 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 23 | 26 | 66 | |
| pts | 61-39 | 76-63 | 100-88 | 237-190 | |
| Total points | 100 | 139 | 188 | 427 | |
| Winners | 33 | 35 | 39 | 107 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 46% | 39% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 14 | 12 | 9 | 35 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/50 | 37/63 | 47/74 | 122/187 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 59% | 64% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 33/38 | 35/37 | 39/47 | 107/122 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 95% | 83% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/12 | 15/26 | 22/27 | 42/65 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 58% | 81% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 1/9 | 0/15 | 4/29 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 11% | 0% | 14% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger
- Blake Bayldon/Thomas FancuttBayldon/Thomas Fancutt – Chuan En Hsu/Andre IlaganEn Hsu/Andre Ilagan (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Cruz HewittHewitt – Rigele TeTe (4-6 6-4 7-611) – See score progression
- Yi ZhouZhou – Koki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-61 6-3) – See score progression
- Fajing SunSun – Qian SunSun (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (7-65 7-65) – See score progression
- Jay Dylan Hara FriendDylan Hara Friend – Ognjen MilicMilic (6-4 6-73 7-65) – See score progression
- James McCabeMcCabe – Elias YmerYmer (6-0 6-72 7-66) – See score progression
- Andre IlaganIlagan – Mert AlkayaAlkaya (6-4 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Jay Dylan Hara FriendDylan Hara Friend – Ognjen MilicMilic (6-4 6-7(3) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-6(1) 6-3) – See score progression
- Yi ZhouZhou – Koki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (7-6(5) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Fajing SunSun – Qian SunSun (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Cruz HewittHewitt – Rigele TeTe (4-6 6-4 7-6(11)) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Liam BroadyBroady – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Andre IlaganIlagan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sergey FominFomin – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – Max PurcellPurcell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
