Leo Borg and Koray Kirci will face off in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Leo Borg who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Leo Borg is the pick to win this match.
Leo Borg -> 1.169
Koray Kirci -> 4.6
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Prediction and head to head Leo Borg vs. Koray Kirci
There is no head to head record between Leo Borg and Koray Kirci since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Leo Borg
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-22 | 25-11 | 1-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-30 | 22-13 | 10-8 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 13-8 | 27-20 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-12 | 0-0 | 1-9 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 343 (career-high), Borg reached the 1st round after beating Cagan Efe Tufekci 6-1 6-1 and Lukas Pokorny 7-63 4-6 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Swede defeated Pokorny (7-63 4-6 6-1). During the match, Borg scored 99 points vs Pokorny’s 86. Leo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borg bagged 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Leo Borg was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (46/57) of his 1st serve and 58% (21/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Leo broke Pokorny twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Leo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has surrendered 1 set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Borg has a winning win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 55% of his matches (72-60). 21-11 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Borg has a composed34-19 win-loss record in the last 3 years on hard.
Borg’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Jakarta and M25 Risskov/Aarhus.
Leo has a composed 31-19 win-loss record in 2023, 21-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Borg has never competed in this tournament before.
Koray Kirci
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-23 | 7-10 | 5-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-21 | 10-14 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-27 | 6-4 | 15-22 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-20 | 0-2 | 16-16 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 669, Kirci will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Astana where he lost 6-4 3-2 ret. to Bertrand in the 1st round on the 2nd of August.
Kirci has an overall 10-15 win-loss record in 2023, 6-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Turk has an overall 116-140 record. He has a negative 34-36 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
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