Altug Celikbilek and Yshai Oliel will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.44
Yshai Oliel -> 2.64
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Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Yshai Oliel
There is no head to head record between Altug Celikbilek and Yshai Oliel since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
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. 264, the Turk got to the 2nd round after defeating Gauthier Onclin 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Onclin (6-1 6-0). During the match, Celikbilek scored 54 points vs Onclin’s 21. The Turk was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Celikbilek scored 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Altug Celikbilek was very efficient on serve to win 83% (19/23) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Celikbilek broke Onclin 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 (301-219). 7-7 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Celikbilek has a composed213-136 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Turk’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Neuve Challenger and the Salinas Challenger.
Celikbilek has an aggregate 18-19 win-loss record in 2023, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Yshai Oliel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-16 | 5-4 | 19-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-29 | 31-15 | 19-13 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-24 | 2-4 | 24-17 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-24 | 24-10 | 23-12 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-10 | 1-5 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 502, Yshai reached the 2nd round after defeating Sergey Fomin 3-6 6-3 6-2, Seong Chan Hong 6-4 6-1 and Marius Copil 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Israeli had a good straight sets win against Copil (6-2 6-4). During the match Oliel scored 56 points vs Copil’s 42. Oliel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Oliel struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yshai Oliel lost the serve once. Furthermore, Oliel put 59% of his first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the 2nd serve. Yshai broke Copil 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Oliel’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Bucharest,M25 Netanya and M15 Raanana.
Yshai has an aggregate 39-21 win-loss record in 2023, 19-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Celikbilek | Oliel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 61 |
| Pts | 54-21 | 198-156 |
| Total Points | 75 | 354 |
| Winners | 19 | 87 |
| %Winners | 35% | 44% |
Celikbilek played 1 match while Oliel competed in 3 matches. Oliel started his run from the qualifications while Celikbilek had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yshai Oliel lost 1 set while Altug Celikbilek hasn’t dropped a set so far. Celikbilek has played 5 set(s) less than Oliel (2 vs 7). Therefore, Celikbilek played 48 games less than Oliel. Altug scored 19 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Israeli managed to score 87 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Celikbilek | Oliel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4.3 |
| 1st in | 23/43 | 114/167 |
| %1st in | 53% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 87/114 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 31/53 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 58% |
Celikbilek recorded 4 aces . Oliel recorded 13 aces (4.3 per match). Celikbilek won 83% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Oliel won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Celikbilek | Oliel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 12 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 12/25 |
| % Converted | 56% | 48% |
| Conceded | 4 | 7 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Altug broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Turk quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. Yshai broke his opponents 12 times with a 48% conversion rate. Yshai conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Celikbilek | |||
| R1 Onclin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 54-21 | 54-21 | |
| Total points | 75 | 75 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 23/43 | 23/43 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 19/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Oliel | |||||
| Q1 Fomin |
Q3 Chan Hong |
R1 Copil |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-3 6-2 | 6-4 6-1 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 17 | 18 | 61 | |
| pts | 79-70 | 63-44 | 56-42 | 198-156 | |
| Total points | 149 | 107 | 98 | 354 | |
| Winners | 41 | 25 | 21 | 87 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 40% | 38% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 10 | 1 | 2 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 51/71 | 33/45 | 30/51 | 114/167 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 73% | 59% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 41/51 | 25/33 | 21/30 | 87/114 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 76% | 70% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/20 | 9/12 | 14/21 | 31/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 75% | 67% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/12 | 4/5 | 12/25 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 33% | 80% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 100% | 0% | 160% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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