Altug Celikbilek and Dragos Nicolae Madaras will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Shymkent 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 11. 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 Dragos Nicolae Madaras who should win in 3 sets.
Dragos Nicolae Madaras -> 1.66
Altug Celikbilek -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Dragos Nicolae Madaras
There is no head to head record between Altug Celikbilek and Dragos Nicolae Madaras since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Altug Celikbilek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-21 | 42-15 | 0-0 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-27 | 8-12 | 0-3 | 9-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 13-13 | 4-7 | 10-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-24 | 23-11 | 1-2 | 15-8 | 3-2 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 14-10 | 3-2 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 185, the Turk will start his run in the Shymkent 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Mauthausen Challenger where he lost 7-6(0) 3-0 ret. to Balazs in the 2nd round on the 4th of May.
Celikbilek has an aggregate 8-10 win-loss record in 2022, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Celikbilek has an overall 264-180 record. He has a negative 28-31 record on clay.
Previously in the Shymkent 1 Challenger
The Turk has never competed in this tournament before.
Dragos Nicolae Madaras
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-2 | 4-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | 74-16 | 0-0 | 73-15 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-29 | 0-2 | 40-22 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 83-31 | 9-3 | 74-27 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 321 (career-high), the Romanian will start his run in the Shymkent 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Mauthausen Challenger where he lost 6-7(5) 6-1 6-2 to Kopp in the qualifications on the 1st of May.
Nicolae has an overall 22-11 win-loss record in 2022, 22-8 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.The Romanian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya.
In terms of his career, Dragos has an overall 230-131 record. He has a positive 204-110 record on clay.
Tennis Scores in Shymkent 1 Challenger
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio NavaNava – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Yshai OlielOliel (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Matteo DonatiDonati (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy – Alexandar LazarovLazarov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Grigoriy LomakinLomakin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (0-0) – H2H and prediction