Altug Celikbilek and Li Tu will face off in the 2nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.64
Li Tu -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Li Tu
There is no head to head record between Altug Celikbilek and Li Tu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Altug Celikbilek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-19 | 35-13 | 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. 218, Celikbilek reached the 2nd round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Celikbilek had a good straight sets win against Uchida (6-2 6-4). During the match, Celikbilek scored 65 points vs Uchida’s 48. Celikbilek was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Celikbilek blasted 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Altug Celikbilek lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Celikbilek put 47% of his first serves in, winning 87% (20/23) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Celikbilek broke Uchida 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Celikbilek has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (292-209). 1-2 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Celikbilek has a compiled207-131 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Altug’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Neuve Challenger.
Altug has an overall 9-9 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Celikbilek has never competed in this tournament before.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-24 | 30-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 241, Li got to the 2nd round after defeating Bu Yunchaokete 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Li had a good straight sets win against Yunchaokete (6-4 6-4). During the match Tu scored 61 points vs Yunchaokete’s 52. Tu was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Tu made 8 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Li Tu lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Tu put 58% of his first serves in, winning 67% (24/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the 2nd serve. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Yunchaokete 3 times.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
Li has a compiled 12-9 win-loss record in 2023, 12-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Celikbilek | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 20 |
| Pts | 65-48 | 61-52 |
| Total Points | 113 | 113 |
| Winners | 20 | 24 |
| %Winners | 31% | 39% |
Both Celikbilek and Tu played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Celikbilek and Tu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Celikbilek played 2 games less than Tu. Altug scored 20 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Li made 24 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Celikbilek | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 8 |
| 1st in | 23/49 | 36/62 |
| %1st in | 47% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 20/23 | 24/36 |
| %1st pts | 87% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 12/26 | 17/26 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 65% |
Celikbilek made 6 aces . Tu struck 8 aces . Celikbilek won 87% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Tu won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Celikbilek | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 56% | 100% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Turk broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Celikbilek surrendered his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Celikbilek | |||
| R1 Uchida |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-48 | 65-48 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 23/49 | 23/49 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 20/23 | 20/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/26 | 12/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Tu | |||
| R1 Yunchaokete |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 61-52 | 61-52 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 36/62 | 36/62 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 24/36 | 24/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 17/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWWLWWL Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger
- Jason JungJung – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (6-2 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-5 3-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Omar JasikaJasika (6-76 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Renta TokudaTokuda (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-72 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Tung-Lin WuWu (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Daniel MasurMasur (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Marc PolmansPolmans (4-6 6-3 7-66) – See score progression
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Luke SavilleSaville – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-73 6-2) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Emilio GomezGomez (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Daniel MasurMasur (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-5 3-6 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Christopher EubanksEubanks (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Luke SavilleSaville – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
