Altug Celikbilek and Antoine Escoffier will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Porto Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on COURT MCDONALDS. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Antoine Escoffier who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Antoine Escoffier is the pick to win this match.
Antoine Escoffier -> 1.9
Altug Celikbilek -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Antoine Escoffier
There is no head to head record between Altug Celikbilek and Antoine Escoffier 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. 179, Altug got to the 2nd round after beating Renzo Olivo 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Altug had a good straight sets win against Olivo (6-3 6-3). During the match, Celikbilek scored 62 points vs Olivo’s 33. Celikbilek was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Celikbilek bagged 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Altug Celikbilek was extremely efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Altug was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Olivo 4 times.
Celikbilek has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (269-187). 7-8 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Celikbilek has an overall200-124 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Celikbilek’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Malaga Challenger.
The Turk has a compiled 13-17 win-loss record in 2022, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-34 | 34-17 | 0-1 | 11-15 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 21-14 | 1-2 | 17-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-33 | 12-12 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 56-26 | 19-8 | 11-8 | 26-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 208 (career-high), the French player reached the 2nd round after defeating Nuno Borges 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round, Antoine had a good straight sets win against Borges (7-65 6-4). During the match Escoffier scored 79 points vs Borges’s 64. Escoffier was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Escoffier recorded 8 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Antoine Escoffier was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Escoffier broke Borges 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Antoine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Loughborough and M25 Nottingham.
Escoffier has a composed 30-16 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Antoine has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Celikbilek | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 23 |
| Pts | 62-33 | 79-64 |
| Total Points | 95 | 143 |
| Winners | 22 | 27 |
| %Winners | 35% | 34% |
Both Celikbilek and Escoffier played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Celikbilek and Escoffier have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Celikbilek played 5 games less than Escoffier. Celikbilek scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Antoine blasted 27 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Celikbilek | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 8 |
| 1st in | 26/47 | 33/63 |
| %1st in | 55% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 27/33 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 18/30 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 60% |
Celikbilek recorded 7 aces . Escoffier scored 8 aces . Celikbilek won 85% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Escoffier won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Celikbilek | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Altug broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Turk conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Antoine broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Escoffier conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Celikbilek | |||
| R1 Olivo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-33 | 62-33 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/47 | 26/47 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 14/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Escoffier | |||
| R1 Borges |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 79-64 | 79-64 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 33/63 | 33/63 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/30 | 18/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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