Altug Celikbilek and Francesco Forti will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Ortisei Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Altug Celikbilek who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Altug Celikbilek is the pick to win this match.
Altug Celikbilek -> 1.67
Francesco Forti -> 2.1

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There is no head to head record between Altug Celikbilek and Francesco Forti since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Altug Celikbilek

Ranked no. 325, the Turk got to the qualifications after defeating Andrea Arnaboldi 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Celikbilek had a good straight sets win against Arnaboldi (6-4 6-4). During the match Celikbilek scored 64 points vs Arnaboldi’s 54. Celikbilek was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Celikbilek scored 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Altug Celikbilek was pretty effective on serve to win 93% (26/28) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Turk broke Arnaboldi twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Celikbilek has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 59% of his matches (209-143). 2-3 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Celikbilek has a 16-10 match record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.

The Turk has a 9-7 win-loss record in 2020, 2-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Ortisei Challenger

Altug didn’t play in the Ortisei Challenger in 2019.

Francesco Forti

Ranked no. 431, Francesco got to the qualifications after beating Mischa Zverev 7-6⁹ 6-4.

In the qualifications, Francesco had a good straight sets win against Zverev (7-6⁹ 6-4). During the match Forti scored 83 points vs Zverev’s 73. Francesco was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Forti managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Francesco Forti lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Forti put 58% of his first serves in, winning 80% (36/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (16/33) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Zverev 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Francesco’s best result of the year was getting to the semi-finals in M25 Trento,M15 Caslano,M15 Setubal and M15 Heraklion.

The Italian has a 20-12 win-loss record in 2020, 8-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Ortisei Challenger

The Italian lost in the 2^nd round to Sebastian Ofner.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Celikbilek and Forti played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Celikbilek and Forti have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Celikbilek played 3 games less than Forti. Altug scored 26 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Francesco struck 36 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Celikbilek struck 15 aces . Forti bagged 11 aces . Celikbilek won 93% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Forti won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Altug broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Celikbilek had a solid display on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Francesco broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Altug
Celikbilek

1:0

Francesco
Forti

Rank

605

High

154

1I.hard0

Rank

653

High

303

Win Loss

Celikbilek

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Forti

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2024 2023 2022

31 - 16

3 - 5

25-10

Hard

0-0

6-6

I Hard

0-0

0-0

Clay

3-5

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