Lukas Klein and Cem Ilkel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Lugano Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on CENTRALE. 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 Cem Ilkel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cem Ilkel is the pick to win this match.
Cem Ilkel -> 1.83
Lukas Klein -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Lukas Klein vs. Cem Ilkel
There is no head to head record between Lukas Klein and Cem Ilkel since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Lukas Klein
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-12 | 13-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-29 | 9-8 | 15-12 | 11-6 | 1-2 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 44-22 | 5-0 | 27-17 | 8-3 | 3-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 28-22 | 0-2 | 23-17 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-15 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 143, Klein will start his run in the Lugano Challenger after he played his last match in the Pau Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-3 7-6(4) to De Loore in the 1st round on the 28th of February.
Klein has an aggregate 2-6 win-loss record in 2023, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Lukas has an overall 257-152 record. He has a positive 31-30 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Klein has never competed in this tournament before.
Cem Ilkel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-16 | 4-8 | 0-2 | 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. 280, Ilkel reached the 1st round after beating Kenny de Schepper 6-75 6-3 6-2 and Viktor Durasovic 4-6 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications against Durasovic, Ilkel recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-2). During the match Ilkel scored 80 points vs Durasovic’s 68. Ilkel was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Ilkel recorded 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Cem Ilkel lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ilkel put 73% of his first serves in, winning 70% (37/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Ilkel broke Durasovic 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ilkel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Turk’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 1 Challenger and the Vilnius Challenger.
The Turk has a compiled 16-6 win-loss record in 2023, 16-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marius CopilCopil – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Norbert GombosGombos (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Jakub PaulPaul (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Antoine BellierBellier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Dan AddedAdded (0-1) – H2H and prediction
