Omni Kumar and Marsel Ilhan will face off in the qualifications of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on GRAND TARABYA COURT. 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 Omni Kumar who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Omni Kumar is the pick to win this match.
Omni Kumar -> 1.125
Marsel Ilhan -> 5.4
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Prediction and head to head Omni Kumar vs. Marsel Ilhan
There is no head to head record between Omni Kumar and Marsel Ilhan since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Omni Kumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-23 | 29-16 | 7-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-32 | 54-31 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-36 | 47-29 | 1-1 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 75-29 | 73-27 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-10 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 355 (career-high), the American reached the qualifications after defeating Sarp Agabigun 6-3 6-78 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kumar defeated Agabigun (6-3 6-78 6-3). During the match, Kumar scored 106 points vs Agabigun’s 92. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kumar scored just 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Omni Kumar was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (47/65) of his 1st serve and 67% (28/42) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kumar broke Agabigun 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Kumar has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (215-124). 40-25 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kumar has an overall211-115 match record in the last 6 years on hard.
Omni’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Los Angeles.
The American has a composed 40-25 win-loss record in 2023, 40-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Kumar has never competed in this tournament before.
Marsel Ilhan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-9 | 0-1 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-16 | 7-3 | 18-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-26 | 0-1 | 17-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-32 | 0-1 | 23-30 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-9 | 1-3 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 877, the Turk reached the qualifications after defeating Khumoun Sultanov 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Sultanov (6-4 6-2). During the match Ilhan scored 71 points vs Sultanov’s 56. Ilhan was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Ilhan managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marsel Ilhan conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Ilhan put 48% of his first serves in, winning 85% (28/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (18/36) on the 2nd serve. Marsel broke Sultanov 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Ilhan has a compiled 23-13 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kumar | Ilhan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 18 |
| Pts | 106-92 | 71-56 |
| Total Points | 198 | 127 |
| Winners | 47 | 28 |
| %Winners | 44% | 39% |
Both Kumar and Ilhan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Omni Kumar dropped 1 set while Marsel Ilhan hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kumar has played 1 set more than Ilhan (3 vs 2). Therefore, Kumar played 13 games more than Ilhan. The American scored 47 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Marsel blasted 28 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kumar | Ilhan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 10 |
| 1st in | 65/107 | 33/69 |
| %1st in | 61% | 48% |
| 1st pts | 47/65 | 28/33 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 28/42 | 18/36 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 50% |
Kumar struck 1 ace . Ilhan also scored 10 aces . Kumar won 72% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Ilhan won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kumar | Ilhan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 43% | 50% |
| Conceded | 10 | 3 |
| Saved | 9 | 3 |
| % Saved | 90% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Omni broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The American dropped his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded. Marsel broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Marsel was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Kumar | |||
| Q1 Agabigun |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-78 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 106-92 | 106-92 | |
| Total points | 198 | 198 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 65/107 | 65/107 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 47/65 | 47/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/42 | 28/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 9/10 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 90% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ilhan | |||
| Q1 Sultanov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 71-56 | 71-56 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 33/69 | 33/69 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 28/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | 18/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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