Altug Celikbilek and Marek Gengel will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Mallorca Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on PISTA 4. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Altug Celikbilek is the pick to win this match.
Altug Celikbilek -> 1.33
Marek Gengel -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Marek Gengel
This will be the 2nd time that Altug Celikbilek and Marek Gengel play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Celikbilek (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Celikbilek won 6-1 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Malaga Challenger back in June 2022.
Altug Celikbilek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-15 | 14-9 | 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. 231, Celikbilek will start his run in the Mallorca Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-2 7-5 to De in the qualifications on the 25th of August.
Celikbilek has a composed 18-20 win-loss record in 2022, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Turk’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Porto Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Celikbilek has an overall 274-190 record. He has a positive 205-127 record on hard.
Previously in the Mallorca Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Marek Gengel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-14 | 33-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-27 | 14-15 | 0-7 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-29 | 28-16 | 4-8 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 52-28 | 47-14 | 3-8 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-17 | 16-12 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 382 (career-high), the Czech got to the 1st round after beating Daniel Little 6-3 7-5 and Lukas Rosol 0-6 7-65 6-2.
In the qualifications against Rosol, Marek recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (0-6 7-65 6-2).During the match Gengel scored less points (11) than Rosol. In fact, the world no. 231 won 91 points vs Rosol’s. That means that Gengel was more focused during the important points. Marek was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Gengel struck 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marek Gengel lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Gengel put 53% of his first serves in, winning 67% (34/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (22/45) on the 2nd serve. Marek broke Rosol 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Czech started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Czech’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh.
Gengel has an overall 22-18 win-loss record in 2022, 13-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Vlad Victor Cornea/Bart StevensVictor Cornea/Bart Stevens – Altug Celikbilek/Kacper ZukCelikbilek/Kacper Zuk (7-64 6-72 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matheus Pucinelli De AlmeidaPucinelli De Almeida – Daniel MasurMasur (3-6 7-61 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Laurent LokoliLokoli (1-6 6-1 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David Pel/Szymon WalkowPel/Szymon Walkow – Albano Olivetti/Leandro RiediOlivetti/Leandro Riedi (7-63 2-6 10-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evan FurnessFurness – Kacper ZukZuk (4-6 6-3 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine BellierBellier – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (3-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Albano OlivettiOlivetti – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
