Illya Marchenko and Marek Gengel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Illya Marchenko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Illya Marchenko is the pick to win this match.
Illya Marchenko -> 1.54
Marek Gengel -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head Illya Marchenko vs. Marek Gengel
There is no head to head record between Illya Marchenko and Marek Gengel since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Illya Marchenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-15 | 6-9 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-22 | 17-5 | 6-6 | 18-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-25 | 9-10 | 3-4 | 8-9 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-28 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 26-12 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-14 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 310, Marchenko will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-3 6-4 to Jasika in the 2nd round on the 1st of September.
The Ukrainian has an overall 13-18 win-loss record in 2022, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Illya has an overall 539-398 record. He has a positive 225-159 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2009. 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. 388, Marek got to the 1st round after defeating Fernando Romboli 6-0 6-1 and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Gengel had a good straight sets win against Jecan (6-2 6-0). During the match Gengel scored 53 points vs Jecan’s 22. The Czech was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Gengel scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marek Gengel lost the serve once. Furthermore, Gengel put 59% of his first serves in, winning 90% (18/20) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Jecan 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gengel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 68% of the points he played.
Marek’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Czech has a composed 25-20 win-loss record in 2022, 16-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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