Antoine Escoffier and Altug Celikbilek will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Porto Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on BANCO CARREGOSA. 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 -> 1.87
Antoine Escoffier -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Antoine Escoffier vs. Altug Celikbilek
This will be the 3rd time that Antoine Escoffier and Altug Celikbilek play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Celikbilek (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Celikbilek won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in the Lille Challenger back in March 2023.
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-19 | 14-8 | 0-1 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 21-14 | 1-2 | 17-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-33 | 12-12 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 56-26 | 19-8 | 11-8 | 26-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-6 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 162 (career-high), Antoine got to the 2nd round after beating Lorenzo Giustino 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Escoffier had a good straight sets win against Giustino (6-3 6-4). During the match, Escoffier scored 59 points vs Giustino’s 43. Escoffier was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Escoffier fired 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Antoine Escoffier was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (28/32) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Antoine broke Giustino twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Escoffier has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (414-236). 17-10 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Escoffier has an aggregate 233-124 record in the last years on hard.
Escoffier’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Segovia Challenger.
Antoine has a compiled 32-21 win-loss record in 2023, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Altug Celikbilek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-15 | 14-9 | 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. 260, Altug got to the 2nd round after defeating Frederico Ferreira Silva 6-4 6-76 6-3.
In the 1st round, Celikbilek defeated Ferreira Silva (6-4 6-76 6-3). During the match Celikbilek scored 104 points vs Ferreira Silva’s 96. The Turk was exceptionally aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Talking about serving, Celikbilek blasted 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Altug Celikbilek lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Celikbilek put 61% of his first serves in, winning 77% (50/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (19/41) on the 2nd serve. Celikbilek broke Ferreira Silva 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Altug’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Neuve Challenger and the Salinas Challenger.
Celikbilek has an aggregate 17-18 win-loss record in 2023, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament twice in 2021 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Escoffier | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 32 |
| Pts | 59-43 | 104-96 |
| Total Points | 102 | 200 |
| Winners | 28 | 50 |
| %Winners | 47% | 48% |
Both Escoffier and Celikbilek played 1 match. At the moment, Altug Celikbilek lost 1 set while Antoine Escoffier hasn’t lost a set so far. Escoffier has played 1 set(s) less than Celikbilek (2 vs 3). Therefore, Escoffier played 13 games less than Celikbilek. Escoffier scored 28 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Turk managed to score 50 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Escoffier | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 12 |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 65/106 |
| %1st in | 63% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 28/32 | 50/65 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 19/41 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 46% |
Escoffier made 10 aces . Celikbilek fired 12 aces . Escoffier won 88% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Celikbilek won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Escoffier | Celikbilek |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 50% | 67% |
| Conceded | 0 | 8 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The French player broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Antoine quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Altug broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Altug conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Escoffier | |||
| R1 Giustino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-43 | 59-43 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 32/51 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 28/32 | 28/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Celikbilek | |||
| R1 Ferreira Silva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-76 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 104-96 | 104-96 | |
| Total points | 200 | 200 | |
| Winners | 50 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 65/106 | 65/106 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 50/65 | 50/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/41 | 19/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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