Jesper De Jong and Altug Celikbilek will square off in the qualifications of the U.S. Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court 16. 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 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Altug Celikbilek is the pick to win this match.
Altug Celikbilek -> 1.81
Jesper De Jong -> 1.952

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Prediction and head to head Jesper De Jong vs. Altug Celikbilek

This will be the 3rd time that Jesper De Jong and Altug Celikbilek play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Celikbilek (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Celikbilek won 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in the Orlando Challenger back in 2021.

Jesper De Jong

Jesper De Jong

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
76
High
76
LWLLLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 35-31 8-7 20-13 5-6 2-5 0-0
2024 48-25 12-5 33-15 2-4 1-1 0-0
2023 52-23 19-4 30-14 0-2 3-3 0-0
2022 24-28 12-7 10-13 2-5 0-3 0-0
2021 32-29 2-6 27-18 3-5 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 212, De Jong reached the qualifications after defeating Antoine Escoffier 7-64 6-1.

In the qualifications, De Jong had a good straight sets win against Escoffier (7-64 6-1). During the match, De Jong scored 79 points vs Escoffier’s 67. Jesper was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, De Jong struck 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Jesper De Jong lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, De Jong put 50% of his first serves in, winning 73% (24/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (16/33) on the 2nd serve. The Dutch broke Escoffier 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).

De Jong has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (143-90). 6-2 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, De Jong has a compiled49-26 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.

Jesper’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Traralgon Challenger.

Jesper has an overall 14-19 win-loss record in 2022, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

U.S. Open
De Jong's Record

Altug Celikbilek

Altug Celikbilek

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
442
High
154
LWWWLWWWWW
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. 234, Celikbilek reached the qualifications after defeating Camilo Ugo Carabelli 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications, Altug had a good straight sets win against Ugo Carabelli (7-5 6-3). During the match Celikbilek scored 73 points vs Ugo Carabelli’s 55. The Turk was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Celikbilek fired 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Altug Celikbilek lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Celikbilek put 62% of his first serves in, winning 66% (27/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the 2nd serve. Altug was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Ugo Carabelli 4 times.

Altug’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Porto Challenger.

Altug has an overall 18-19 win-loss record in 2022, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.

U.S. Open
Celikbilek's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

J.De Jong
A.Celikbilek
1h:38
1h:38
Time on court​
1h:30
1h:30
1h:38
1h:38
Last match​
1h:30
1h:30
1
1
Match played
1
1
20
20
Games Played​
21
21
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
79
79
Total points​
73
73
79
79
Avg point​
73
73
24
24
Winners
27
27
24
24
Avg Winners​
27
27
30%
30%
Ratio winners
37%
37%
-- Serve --
8
8
Aces
5
5
8
8
Avg Aces
5
5
4
4
Double Faults
3
3
4
4
Avg Double Faults
3
3
24/33
24/33
1st won total​
27/41
27/41
!
73%
73%
1st won %
66%
66%
16/33
16/33
2nd won total​
16/25
16/25
48%
48%
2nd won %
!
64%
64%
-- Break Points --
5/14
5/14
BP won
4/4
4/4
5/14
5/14
Avg BP won
4/4
4/4
36%
36%
Won
!
100%
100%
5
5
Conceded
5
5
5
5
Avg Conceded
5
5
2
2
Broken
2
2
2
2
Avg Broken
2
2
3
3
Saved
3
3

Matches, sets, games and points

Points De Jong Celikbilek
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 21
Pts 79-67 73-55
Total Points 146 128
Winners 24 27
%Winners 30% 37%

Both De Jong and Celikbilek played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, De Jong and Celikbilek have played the same amount of sets 2. However, De Jong played 1 game less than Celikbilek. Jesper scored 24 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The Turk scored 27 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve De Jong Celikbilek
Aces 8 5
Avg per match 8 5
1st in 33/66 41/66
%1st in 50% 62%
1st pts 24/33 27/41
%1st pts 73% 66%
2nd pts 16/33 16/25
%2nd pts 48% 64%

De Jong recorded 8 aces . Celikbilek managed to score 5 aces . De Jong won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Celikbilek won 66% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks De Jong Celikbilek
Won 5 4
Converted 5/14 4/4
% Converted 36% 100%
Conceded 5 5
Saved 3 3
% Saved 60% 60%
Times Broken 2 2

De Jong broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Jesper dropped his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Celikbilek broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Celikbilek conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

De Jong
Q1
Escoffier
Total
Score 7-64 6-1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 79-67 79-67
Total points 146 146
Winners 24 24
%Winners 30% 30%
SERVE
Aces 8 8
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 33/66 33/66
% 1st in 50% 50%
1st pts 24/33 24/33
% 1st pts 73% 73%
2nd pts 16/33 16/33
% 2nd pts 48% 48%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/14 5/14
Converted % 36% 36%
Conceded 5 5
Saved 3/5 3
Saved % 60% 60%
Times Broken 2 2
Celikbilek
Q1
Ugo
Total
Score 7-5 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 21
pts 73-55 73-55
Total points 128 128
Winners 27 27
%Winners 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 41/66 41/66
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 27/41 27/41
% 1st pts 66% 66%
2nd pts 16/25 16/25
% 2nd pts 64% 64%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/4 4/4
Converted % 100% 100%
Conceded 5 5
Saved 3/5 3
Saved % 60% 60%
Times Broken 2 2

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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