Altug Celikbilek and Alexandar Lazarov will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Manama Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Altug Celikbilek who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Altug Celikbilek is the pick to win this match.
Altug Celikbilek -> 1.25
Alexandar Lazarov -> 3.75
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Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Alexandar Lazarov
This will be the 2nd time that Altug Celikbilek and Alexandar Lazarov play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Lazarov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Lazarov won 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the Rubber 5 in 2 back in 2016.
Altug Celikbilek
Ranked no. 164, Altug will start his run in the Manama Challenger after he played his last match in the Bratislava Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Dzumhur in the 2nd round on the 10th of November.
The Turk has a composed 40-22 win-loss record in 2021, 23-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in the Porto Challenger where he overcame Quentin Halys in the final 6-2 6-1 and in the Pozoblanco Challenger where he beat Cem Ilkel in the final 6-1 6-7(2) 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, The Turk has an overall 254-168 record. He has a positive 193-115 record on hard.
Previously in the Manama Challenger
The Turk has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexandar Lazarov
Ranked no. 462, Lazarov reached the 1st round after defeating Alexander Cozbinov 6-1 6-2 and Johannes Haerteis 6-3 7-67.
In the qualifications, The Bulgarian had a good straight sets win against Haerteis (6-3 7-67). During the match Lazarov scored 77 points vs Haerteis’s 66. Lazarov was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Lazarov struck 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexandar Lazarov was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (34/44) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexandar broke Haerteis once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Bulgarian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.
Alexandar’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Skopje and M25 Telavi.
Lazarov has a compiled 41-20 win-loss record in 2021, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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L Tennis Scores in Manama Challenger
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-75 6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Hasan AbdulnabiAbdulnabi (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Ivan Marrero CurbeloMarrero Curbelo (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Mirza BasicBasic (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Matteo ViolaViola – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Yanki ErelErel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Johannes HaerteisHaerteis – Alexander ErlerErler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Alexandar LazarovLazarov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vladyslav OrlovOrlov – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
