Filip Horansky and Cem Ilkel will fight against each other in the quarter of the Bratislava Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:30 pm on CENTRAL COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Filip Horansky who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Filip Horansky is the pick to win this match.
Filip Horansky -> 1.53
Cem Ilkel -> 2.37
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Prediction and head to head Filip Horansky vs. Cem Ilkel
This will be the 2nd time that Filip Horansky and Cem Ilkel fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Horansky (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Horansky won 5-7 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in the Bratislava Challenger back in 2016.
Filip Horansky
Ranked no. 187, Filip got to the quarter after beating Maximilian Marterer 6-2 6-4 and Norbert Gombos 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Gombos (6-2 6-2). During the match, Horansky scored 54 points vs Gombos’s 36. The Slovakian was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Horansky fired 5 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Filip Horansky was quite effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovakian broke Gombos 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Slovakian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Horansky has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (372-249). 7-8 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Horansky has an overall 268-143 record in the last years on clay.
The Slovakian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Quimper Challenger.
Filip has a composed 12-14 win-loss record in 2021, 7-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bratislava Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2014. See his history.
Cem Ilkel
Ranked no. 199, the Turk got to the quarter after beating Elliot Benchetrit 7-5 6-2 and Facundo Mena 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Cem had a good straight sets win against Mena (6-3 6-4). During the match Ilkel scored 78 points vs Mena’s 62. The Turk was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Ilkel managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Cem Ilkel was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (36/47) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Turk broke Mena twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ilkel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
The Turk’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Antalya Challenger,the Potchefstroom 1 Challenger and the Rome 2 Challenger.
Cem has a composed 18-14 win-loss record in 2021, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bratislava Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2016. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Horansky | Ilkel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 39 |
| Pts | 116-85 | 144-109 |
| Total Points | 201 | 253 |
| Winners | 56 | 64 |
| %Winners | 48% | 44% |
Both Horansky and Ilkel played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Horansky and Ilkel have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Horansky played 5 games less than Ilkel. The Slovakian scored 56 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Cem made 64 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Horansky | Ilkel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 74/106 | 78/125 |
| %1st in | 70% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 56/74 | 64/78 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 20/32 | 25/47 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 53% |
Horansky fired 6 aces (3 per match). Ilkel blasted 6 aces (3 per match). Horansky won 76% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Ilkel won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Horansky | Ilkel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 6 |
| Converted | 7/11 | 6/13 |
| % Converted | 64% | 46% |
| Conceded | 4 | 8 |
| Saved | 4 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Slovakian broke his opponents 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Slovakian extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Turk broke his opponents 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Ilkel conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Horansky | ||||
| R1 Marterer |
R2 Gombos |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 | 34 | |
| pts | 62-49 | 54-36 | 116-85 | |
| Total points | 111 | 90 | 201 | |
| Winners | 29 | 27 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 50% | 48% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/58 | 35/48 | 74/106 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 73% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 27/35 | 56/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 77% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 8/13 | 20/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 62% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 4/5 | 7/11 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 80% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 1/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ilkel | ||||
| R1 Benchetrit |
R2 Mena |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 19 | 39 | |
| pts | 66-47 | 78-62 | 144-109 | |
| Total points | 113 | 140 | 253 | |
| Winners | 28 | 36 | 64 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 46% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 47/73 | 78/125 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 64% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 28/31 | 36/47 | 64/78 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 77% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/21 | 14/26 | 25/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 54% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 2/7 | 6/13 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 29% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 4/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 100% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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