Jesper De Jong and Marsel Ilhan will play each other in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on GRAND TARABYA COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jesper De Jong who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jesper De Jong is the pick to win this match.
Jesper De Jong -> 1.125
Marsel Ilhan -> 5.4
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Prediction and head to head Jesper De Jong vs. Marsel Ilhan
There is no head to head record between Jesper De Jong and Marsel Ilhan since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Jesper De Jong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-16 | 7-3 | 20-10 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-23 | 19-4 | 30-14 | 0-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-28 | 12-7 | 10-13 | 2-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-29 | 2-6 | 27-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 31-12 | 7-3 | 14-5 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141 (career-high), the Dutch will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 0-6 7-5 7-5 to Broady in the qualifications on the 25th of August.
De Jong has an overall 49-20 win-loss record in 2023, 16-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger where he defeated Benjamin Hassan in the final 6-3 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, De Jong has an overall 202-119 record. He has a positive 71-33 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
De Jong has never competed in this tournament before.
Marsel Ilhan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 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, Ilhan reached the 1st round after defeating Khumoun Sultanov 6-4 6-2 and Omni Kumar 6-3 5-7 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Turk defeated Kumar (6-3 5-7 7-5). During the match Ilhan scored 115 points vs Kumar’s 107. Ilhan was quite aggressive to blast 45 winners.
Talking about serving, Ilhan scored 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marsel Ilhan lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ilhan put 63% of his first serves in, winning 69% (45/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (23/39) on the 2nd serve. Marsel broke Kumar 4 times after converting 24% of his break points (4/17).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Turk started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Ilhan has an overall 24-13 win-loss record in 2023, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marius CopilCopil – Yshai OlielOliel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marsel IlhanIlhan – Jesper De JongDe Jong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Skander MansouriMansouri – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Gauthier OnclinOnclin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Daniel CukiermanCukierman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Harold MayotMayot – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
