Alexandar Lazarov and Marsel Ilhan will play each other in the 1st round of the Antalya 4 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 12. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexandar Lazarov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexandar Lazarov is the pick to win this match.
Alexandar Lazarov -> 1.36
Marsel Ilhan -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Alexandar Lazarov vs. Marsel Ilhan
This will be the 2nd time that Alexandar Lazarov and Marsel Ilhan fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ilhan (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Ilhan won 6-4 6-2 6-3 in the Rubber 2 in 2 back in 2016.
Alexandar Lazarov
Ranked no. 413, Lazarov will start his run in the Antalya 4 Challenger after he played his last match in the Manama Challenger where he lost 6-2 1-0 ret. to Clarke in the quarter on the 26th of November.
The Bulgarian has an overall 43-21 win-loss record in 2021, 32-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Alexandar’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Skopje and M25 Telavi.
Talking about his overall career, Lazarov has an overall 178-109 record. He has a positive 130-73 record on clay.
Previously in the Antalya 4 Challenger
Lazarov has never competed in this tournament before.
Marsel Ilhan
Ranked no. 761, Ilhan reached the 1st round after beating Pol Toledo Bague 7-610 6-3 and Jakub Paul 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Ilhan had a good straight sets win against Paul (6-2 6-3). During the match Ilhan scored 74 points vs Paul’s 54. Ilhan was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Ilhan bagged 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marsel Ilhan lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Ilhan put 57% of his first serves in, winning 75% (30/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. The Turk broke Paul 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ilhan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.
Marsel has a composed 21-30 win-loss record in 2021, 21-28 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Antalya 4 Challenger
- Marsel IlhanIlhan – Jakub PaulPaul (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Damien WengerWenger – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (7-5 0-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Andrey ChepelevChepelev – Sergey FominFomin (4-6 7-66 6-1) – See score progression
- Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Andrey ChepelevChepelev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mircea-Alexandru JecanJecan – Nick ChappellChappell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Ivan NedelkoNedelko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sarp AgabigunAgabigun – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duckhee LeeLee – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damien WengerWenger – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yshai OlielOliel – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandar LazarovLazarov – Marsel IlhanIlhan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jakub PaulPaul – Giovanni FonioFonio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip MisolicMisolic – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (2-2) – H2H and prediction