Andrea Vavassori and Altug Celikbilek will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Firenze Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:30 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Altug Celikbilek who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Altug Celikbilek is the pick to win this match.
Altug Celikbilek -> 1.88
Andrea Vavassori -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Andrea Vavassori vs. Altug Celikbilek
This will be the 2nd time that Andrea Vavassori and Altug Celikbilek play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Celikbilek (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Celikbilek won 6-7(8) 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Segovia Challenger back in 2019.
Andrea Vavassori
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-6 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-15 | 11-6 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-26 | 3-3 | 28-15 | 2-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-23 | 2-3 | 20-13 | 8-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-14 | 4-3 | 11-5 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 202, Vavassori reached the qualifications after beating Nino Serdarusic 7-62 4-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Andrea defeated Serdarusic (7-62 4-6 6-3). During the match, Vavassori scored 94 points vs Serdarusic’s 86. Vavassori was pretty aggressive to blast 53 winners.
Regarding the service games, Vavassori struck 10 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Andrea Vavassori was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (53/66) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Serdarusic twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Vavassori has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (183-141). 1-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Vavassori has a composed22-25 match record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
Andrea’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the San Benedetto Challenger and the Cordenons Challenger.
Andrea has a composed 25-19 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Florence
Andrea has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 234, the Turk reached the qualifications after defeating Roman Safiullin 7-64 6-1.
In the qualifications, Altug had a good straight sets win against Safiullin (7-64 6-1). During the match Celikbilek scored 78 points vs Safiullin’s 67. The Turk was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Celikbilek struck 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Altug Celikbilek conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Celikbilek put 62% of his first serves in, winning 77% (37/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. Celikbilek broke Safiullin twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
The Turk’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Porto Challenger.
Altug has a composed 21-25 win-loss record in 2022, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vavassori | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 20 |
| Pts | 94-86 | 78-67 |
| Total Points | 180 | 145 |
| Winners | 53 | 37 |
| %Winners | 56% | 47% |
Both Vavassori and Celikbilek played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Andrea Vavassori lost 1 set while Altug Celikbilek hasn’t lost a set so far. Vavassori has played 1 set more than Celikbilek (3 vs 2). Therefore, Vavassori played 12 games more than Celikbilek. The Italian scored 53 winners (56% of the total points). On the other side, Altug scored 37 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vavassori | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 6 |
| 1st in | 66/95 | 48/78 |
| %1st in | 69% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 53/66 | 37/48 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 15/30 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 50% |
Vavassori struck 10 aces . Celikbilek made 6 aces . Vavassori won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Celikbilek won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vavassori | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 40% |
| Conceded | 7 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 71% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
The Italian broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Andrea lost his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. The Turk broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Celikbilek was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Vavassori | |||
| Q1 Serdarusic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 4-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 94-86 | 94-86 | |
| Total points | 180 | 180 | |
| Winners | 53 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 56% | 56% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 66/95 | 66/95 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 53/66 | 53/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Celikbilek | |||
| Q1 Safiullin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 78-67 | 78-67 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 48/78 | 48/78 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 37/48 | 37/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 15/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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