Alexey Vatutin and Altug Celikbilek will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:30 am on CENTRE COURT. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
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 -> 1.71
Alexey Vatutin -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Alexey Vatutin vs. Altug Celikbilek
This will be the 2nd time that Alexey Vatutin and Altug Celikbilek square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Celikbilek (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Celikbilek won 7-6(2) 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Portoroz Challenger back in 2019.
Alexey Vatutin
Ranked no. 262, the Russian got to the 2nd round after beating Nino Serdarusic 6-4 3-6 6-0.
In the 1st round, Alexey defeated Serdarusic (6-4 3-6 6-0). During the match Vatutin scored 77 points vs Serdarusic’s 68. Vatutin was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Vatutin bagged 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexey Vatutin lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Vatutin put 67% of his first serves in, winning 60% (32/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the 2nd serve. Vatutin was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Serdarusic 6 times.
Vatutin has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (372-243). 1-3 on indoor hard courts in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Vatutin has a 108-74 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Vatutin has a 1-4 win-loss record in 2021, 1-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger
Alexey has never competed in this tournament before.
Altug Celikbilek
Ranked no. 286 (career high), Altug got to the 2nd round after beating Khumoun Sultanov 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Sultanov (6-4 6-1). During the match Celikbilek scored 67 points vs Sultanov’s 52. Celikbilek was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Celikbilek made 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Altug Celikbilek lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Celikbilek put 56% of his first serves in, winning 61% (22/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the 2nd serve. Celikbilek broke Sultanov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Celikbilek has a 5-3 win-loss record in 2021, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vatutin | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 17 |
| Pts | 77-68 | 67-52 |
| Total Points | 145 | 119 |
| Winners | 32 | 22 |
| %Winners | 42% | 33% |
Both Vatutin and Celikbilek played 1 match. At the moment, Alexey Vatutin surrendered 1 set while Altug Celikbilek hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Vatutin has played 1 set more than Celikbilek (3 vs 2). Therefore, Vatutin played 8 games more than Celikbilek. Alexey scored 32 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Celikbilek made 22 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vatutin | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 53/79 | 36/64 |
| %1st in | 67% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 32/53 | 22/36 |
| %1st pts | 60% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 16/28 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 57% |
Vatutin blasted 3 aces . Celikbilek struck 3 aces . Vatutin won 60% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Celikbilek won 61% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vatutin | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/6 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 100% | 56% |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 |
| Saved | 5 | 6 |
| % Saved | 63% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Alexey broke his opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Russian surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Celikbilek broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Altug conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Vatutin | |||
| R1 Serdarusic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 77-68 | 77-68 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 53/79 | 53/79 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 32/53 | 32/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/6 | 6/6 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Celikbilek | |||
| R1 Sultanov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 67-52 | 67-52 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/64 | 36/64 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 22/36 | 22/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 16/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWWLWL Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg 1 Challenger
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- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Matija PecoticPecotic (7-60 6-2) – See score progression
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Duckhee LeeLee (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Ivan GakhovGakhov (7-5 1-6 7-67) – See score progression
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Igor SijslingSijsling (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 3-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Mirza BasicBasic – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
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