Cem Ilkel and Nuno Borges will play each other in the 2nd round of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 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 Nuno Borges who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.71
Cem Ilkel -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Cem Ilkel vs. Nuno Borges
There is no head to head record between Cem Ilkel and Nuno Borges since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Cem Ilkel
Ranked no. 145 (career-high), the Turk reached the 2nd round after defeating Ergi Kirkin 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Kirkin (6-4 6-2). During the match, Ilkel scored 77 points vs Kirkin’s 61. The Turk was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ilkel scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Cem Ilkel was exceptionally effective on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cem broke Kirkin 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Ilkel has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 58% of his matches (316-226). 17-8 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ilkel has a composed224-122 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Cem’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Pozoblanco Challenger and the Bergamo Challenger.
The Turk has a compiled 35-26 win-loss record in 2021, 17-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Cem has never competed in this tournament before.
Nuno Borges
Ranked no. 262, Nuno reached the 2nd round after beating Filip Cristian Jianu 6-3 7-66.
In the 1st round, Nuno had a good straight sets win against Cristian Jianu (6-3 7-66). During the match Borges scored 81 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 69. The Portuguese was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Borges fired 8 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nuno Borges lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Borges put 54% of his first serves in, winning 83% (35/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (18/36) on the 2nd serve. Nuno broke Cristian Jianu twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Nuno’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,the Oeiras 2 Challenger and M15 Majadahonda.
Borges has an aggregate 39-18 win-loss record in 2021, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ilkel | Borges |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 22 |
| Pts | 77-61 | 81-69 |
| Total Points | 138 | 150 |
| Winners | 30 | 35 |
| %Winners | 39% | 43% |
Both Ilkel and Borges played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ilkel and Borges have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ilkel played 4 games less than Borges. Cem scored 30 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Nuno bagged 35 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ilkel | Borges |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 8 |
| 1st in | 41/67 | 42/78 |
| %1st in | 61% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 35/42 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 18/36 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 50% |
Ilkel made 1 ace . Borges also made 8 aces . Ilkel won 73% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Borges won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ilkel | Borges |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 2/8 |
| % Converted | 33% | 25% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 2 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Ilkel broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Ilkel pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Nuno broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Nuno conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ilkel | |||
| R1 Kirkin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 77-61 | 77-61 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/67 | 41/67 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 30/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Borges | |||
| R1 Cristian |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 81-69 | 81-69 | |
| Total points | 150 | 150 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 42/78 | 42/78 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 35/42 | 35/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | 18/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 2/8 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
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- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Mirza BasicBasic (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Hasan AbdulnabiAbdulnabi (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
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- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Nerman FaticFatic – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
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- Matteo ViolaViola – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Alexandar LazarovLazarov – Nerman FaticFatic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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