Mate Valkusz and Cem Ilkel will face off in the 2nd round of the Vilnus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cem Ilkel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cem Ilkel is the pick to win this match.
Cem Ilkel -> 1.68
Mate Valkusz -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Mate Valkusz vs. Cem Ilkel
There is no head to head record between Mate Valkusz and Cem Ilkel since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mate Valkusz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-8 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 5-2 | 23-14 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 33-14 | 5-5 | 27-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-9 | 4-2 | 27-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 275, Mate got to the 2nd round after beating Ernests Gulbis 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Mate had a good straight sets win against Gulbis (6-2 6-3). During the match, Valkusz scored 70 points vs Gulbis’s 49. Mate was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about the service games, Valkusz managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Mate Valkusz was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 81% (17/21) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mate broke Gulbis 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Valkusz has a fantastic match record in the last 8 years having won 71% of his matches (168-68). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Valkusz has a composed2-4 match record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Mate’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Opatija.
The Hungarian has a compiled 33-12 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Vilnus Challenger
Mate has never competed in this tournament before.
Cem Ilkel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-21 | 6-10 | 3-5 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-29 | 6-10 | 0-4 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-16 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 16-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-29 | 17-9 | 13-11 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 13-15 | 2-3 | 1-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 416, Cem got to the 2nd round after beating Tomas Vaise 6-2 6-1, Luca Potenza 6-4 6-0 and Matteo Arnaldi 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Arnaldi (6-3 6-2). During the match Ilkel scored 57 points vs Arnaldi’s 34. Ilkel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Ilkel recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Cem Ilkel was very effective on serve to win 77% (17/22) of his 1st serve and 79% (11/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Turk broke Arnaldi 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Cem has an aggregate 8-13 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Valkusz | Ilkel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 48 |
| Pts | 70-49 | 181-114 |
| Total Points | 119 | 295 |
| Winners | 17 | 56 |
| %Winners | 24% | 31% |
Valkusz played 1 match while Ilkel competed in 3 matches. Ilkel started his run from the qualifications while Valkusz had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Valkusz has played 4 set(s) less than Ilkel (2 vs 6). Therefore, Valkusz played 31 games less than Ilkel. The Hungarian scored 17 winners (24% of the total points). On the other side, Cem scored 56 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Valkusz | Ilkel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 17 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 5.7 |
| 1st in | 21/44 | 69/127 |
| %1st in | 48% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 17/21 | 56/69 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 36/58 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 62% |
Valkusz managed to score 7 aces . Ilkel blasted 17 aces (5.7 per match). Valkusz won 81% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Ilkel won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Valkusz | Ilkel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 14 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 14/29 |
| % Converted | 50% | 48% |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Valkusz broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Mate surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Ilkel broke his opponents 14 times with a 48% conversion rate. The Turk conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Valkusz | |||
| R1 Gulbis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 70-49 | 70-49 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 24% | 24% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 21/44 | 21/44 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 17/21 | 17/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ilkel | |||||
| Q1 Vaise |
Q3 Potenza |
R1 Arnaldi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-4 6-0 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 16 | 17 | 48 | |
| pts | 67-44 | 57-36 | 57-34 | 181-114 | |
| Total points | 111 | 93 | 91 | 295 | |
| Winners | 18 | 21 | 17 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 37% | 30% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 13 | 3 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 20/45 | 27/46 | 22/36 | 69/127 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 59% | 61% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 21/27 | 17/22 | 56/69 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 78% | 77% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 12/19 | 11/14 | 36/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 63% | 79% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 4/5 | 5/11 | 14/29 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 80% | 45% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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