Cem Ilkel and Raul Brancaccio will fight against each other in the 3^rd round of the Bergamo Challenger for the 2^nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on PALAZZETTO ALZANO. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cem Ilkel who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cem Ilkel is the pick to win this match.
Cem Ilkel -> 1.44
Raul Brancaccio -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Cem Ilkel vs. Raul Brancaccio

This will be the 2^nd time that Cem Ilkel and Raul Brancaccio square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Brancaccio (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Brancaccio won 6-2 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Cherbourg Challenger back in 2019.

Cem Ilkel

Ranked no. 199 (career high), Ilkel reached the 1^st round after defeating Viktor Durasovic 6-3 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Ilkel had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (6-3 6-4). During the match Ilkel scored 55 points vs Durasovic’s 48. Ilkel was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Ilkel blasted 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Cem Ilkel lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Ilkel put 68% of his first serves in, winning 79% (31/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 22% (4/18) on the 2nd serve. Cem broke Durasovic 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Ilkel has a weak win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 39% of his matches (88-57). 9-2 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ilkel has a 66-79 win-loss record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

Ilkel’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Quimper Challenger.

Ilkel has a 10-4 win-loss record in 2020, 9-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Bergamo Challenger

Ilkel lost in the 2^nd round 6-3 6-4 to Stefano Napolitano.

Raul Brancaccio

Ranked no. 377, the Italian got to the 1^st round after beating Altug Celikbilek 3-6 6-0 6-1 and Matteo Viola 6-4 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Brancaccio had a good straight sets win against Viola (6-4 6-4). During the match Brancaccio scored 71 points vs Viola’s 59. Brancaccio was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Brancaccio scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 6 double faults. Raul Brancaccio lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Brancaccio put 56% of his first serves in, winning 67% (24/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (13/28) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Viola 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Raul has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

Brancaccio has a negative win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 43% of his matches (10-13). 2-2 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Brancaccio has a 3-11 win-loss record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.

The Italian has a 2-3 win-loss record in 2020, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Bergamo Challenger

Brancaccio had to surrender in the 3^rd round 6-3 6-4 to Tristan Lamasine.

Live score

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ilkel	Brancaccio
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	19	42
Pts	55-48	149-114
Total Points	103	263
Winners	31	54
%Winners	56%	36%

Ilkel played 1 match while Brancaccio competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Raul Brancaccio lost 1 set while Cem Ilkel hasn’t lost a set so far. Ilkel has played 3 sets less than Brancaccio (2 vs 5). Therefore, Ilkel played 23 games less than Brancaccio. Ilkel scored 31 winners (56% on total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 54 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ilkel	Brancaccio
Aces	7	7
Avg per match	7	3.5
1st in	39/57	78/131
%1st in	68%	60%
1st pts	31/39	54/78
%1st pts	79%	69%
2nd pts	4/18	26/53
%2nd pts	22%	49%

Ilkel blasted 7 aces . Brancaccio blasted 7 aces (3.5 per match). Ilkel won 79% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 22% of the points. On the other side, Brancaccio won 69% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ilkel	Brancaccio
Won	4	11
Converted	4/6	11/18
% Converted	67%	61%
Conceded	3	13
Saved	1	8
% Saved	33%	62%
Times Broken	2	5

Ilkel broke his opponent 4 times with 67% conversion rate. The Turk conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Raul broke his opponents 11 times with 61% conversion rate. Brancaccio conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded.

Ilkel
	R2 Durasovic	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	55-48	55-48
Total points	103	103
Winners	31	31
%Winners	56%	56%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	39/57	39/57
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	31/39	31/39
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	4/18	4/18
% 2nd pts	22%	22%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1/3	1
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	2	100

Brancaccio
	R1 Celikbilek	R2 Viola	Total
Score	3-6 6-0 6-1	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	22	20	42
pts	78-55	71-59	149-114
Total points	133	130	263
Winners	30	24	54
%Winners	38%	34%	36%
SERVE
Aces	6	1	7
Double Faults	2	6	8
1st in	42/67	36/64	78/131
% 1st in	63%	56%	60%
1st pts	30/42	24/36	54/78
% 1st pts	71%	67%	69%
2nd pts	13/25	13/28	26/53
% 2nd pts	52%	46%	49%
Breaks
Won	6	5	11
Converted	6/9	5/9	11/18
Converted %	67%	56%	61%
Conceded	4	9	13
Saved	2/4	6/9	8
Saved %	50%	67%	117%
Times Broken	2	3	150

Tennis Scores in Bergamo Challenger

• Baptiste CrepatteCrepatte – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Sadio DoumbiaDoumbia (5-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Filippo BaldiBaldi – Pavel NejedlyNejedly (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Viktor GalovicGalovic (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Matteo ViolaViola (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-7¹⁰ 6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (7-6² 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Luca VanniVanni – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Pedja KrstinKrstin – Arthur De GreefDe Greef (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Cem IlkelIlkel – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Constant LestienneLestienne (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Hugo GastonGaston – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-3 6-0) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-0) – See H2H details
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – See H2H details
• Pedja KrstinKrstin – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (0-1) – See H2H details
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Luca VanniVanni (0-0) – See H2H details
• Filippo BaldiBaldi – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – See H2H details
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-1) – See H2H details
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Cem IlkelIlkel (1-0) – See H2H details
• Baptiste CrepatteCrepatte – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (0-0) – See H2H details