Dimitar Kuzmanov and Altug Celikbilek will square off in the 2nd round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 -> 1.61
Dimitar Kuzmanov -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Dimitar Kuzmanov vs. Altug Celikbilek
This will be the 7th time that Dimitar Kuzmanov and Altug Celikbilek square off. The head to head is 5-1 for Kuzmanov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Kuzmanov won 6-1 6-0 in the 1st round in Turkey F11 (Antalya) back in 2017.
Dimitar Kuzmanov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-13 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-25 | 9-7 | 22-15 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-26 | 10-7 | 16-13 | 4-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-25 | 8-6 | 22-15 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 4-1 | 13-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 206, the Bulgarian reached the 2nd round after defeating Hugo Gaston 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Bulgarian had a good straight sets win against Gaston (6-3 6-3). During the match, Kuzmanov scored 64 points vs Gaston’s 44. The Bulgarian was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kuzmanov managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Dimitar Kuzmanov was quite effective on serve to win 74% (28/38) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kuzmanov broke Gaston 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Kuzmanov has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 66% of his matches (411-212). 2-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kuzmanov has an aggregate 9-24 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Bulgarian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Bengalaru 2 Challenger.
Dimitar has an aggregate 29-25 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
Dimitar has never competed in this tournament before.
Altug Celikbilek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-11 | 8-5 | 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. 223, the Turk reached the 2nd round after defeating Pavel Kotov 7-67 7-65.
In the 1st round, Altug had a good straight sets win against Kotov (7-67 7-65).During the match Celikbilek scored less points (2) than Kotov. In fact, the world no. 206 won 90 points vs Kotov’s. That means that Celikbilek was more focused during the important points. Celikbilek was pretty aggressive to blast 46 winners.
About the serving games, Celikbilek fired 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Altug Celikbilek was pretty effective on serve to win 73% (46/63) of his 1st serve and 55% (21/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Celikbilek broke Kotov once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
The Turk’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Porto Challenger.
Celikbilek has an overall 27-29 win-loss record in 2022, 10-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kuzmanov | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 26 |
| Pts | 64-44 | 90-92 |
| Total Points | 108 | 182 |
| Winners | 28 | 46 |
| %Winners | 44% | 51% |
Both Kuzmanov and Celikbilek played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kuzmanov and Celikbilek have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kuzmanov played 8 games less than Celikbilek. Kuzmanov scored 28 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Altug fired 46 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kuzmanov | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 38/53 | 63/101 |
| %1st in | 72% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 46/63 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 21/38 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 55% |
Kuzmanov recorded 4 aces . Celikbilek managed to score 4 aces . Kuzmanov won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Celikbilek won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kuzmanov | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 1 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 1/4 |
| % Converted | 44% | 25% |
| Conceded | 1 | 10 |
| Saved | 0 | 9 |
| % Saved | 0% | 90% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Dimitar broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Kuzmanov conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Turk broke his opponent once with a 25% conversion rate. The Turk conceded his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kuzmanov | |||
| R1 Gaston |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-44 | 64-44 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/53 | 38/53 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 28/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Celikbilek | |||
| R1 Kotov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 90-92 | 90-92 | |
| Total points | 182 | 182 | |
| Winners | 46 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 63/101 | 63/101 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 46/63 | 46/63 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/38 | 21/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/4 | 1/4 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 9/10 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 90% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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