Illya Marchenko and Cem Ilkel will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Bergamo Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on Alzano Palazzetto. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Illya Marchenko who should win in 3 sets.
Illya Marchenko -> 1.45
Cem Ilkel -> 2.61
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Prediction and head to head Illya Marchenko vs. Cem Ilkel
This will be the 3rd time that Illya Marchenko and Cem Ilkel face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Ilkel (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Ilkel won 4-6 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Bratislava Challenger back in 2022.
Illya Marchenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-2 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-22 | 6-13 | 0-1 | 2-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-22 | 17-5 | 6-6 | 18-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-25 | 9-10 | 3-4 | 8-9 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-28 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 26-12 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 210, the Ukrainian reached the 1st round after beating Leonardo Borrelli 6-2 7-60 and Kenny de Schepper 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Illya had a good straight sets win against de Schepper (6-4 7-5). During the match, Marchenko scored 62 points vs de Schepper’s 59. Marchenko was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Marchenko struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Illya Marchenko lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Marchenko put 64% of his first serves in, winning 77% (33/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Marchenko broke de Schepper 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Marchenko started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Marchenko has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (300-225). 17-8 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Marchenko has an aggregate 129-71 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Salinas Challenger where he defeated Matija Pecotic in the final 6-4 6-4 and the Hamburg Challenger where he defeated Dennis Novak in the final 6-2 6-3.
Marchenko has an aggregate 41-20 win-loss record in 2023, 17-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bergamo Challenger
Cem Ilkel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-11 | 30-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-27 | 7-13 | 4-7 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-29 | 6-10 | 0-4 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-16 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 16-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-29 | 17-9 | 13-11 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 258, Ilkel will start his run in the Bergamo Challenger after he played his last match in the Hamburg Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 6-1 to Harris in the 2nd round on the 19th of October.
The Turk has an overall 30-25 win-loss record in 2023, 24-12 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Cem’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Lugano Challenger and M25 Roda de Bara.
In terms of his career, The Turk has an overall 367-270 record. He has a positive 77-58 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Bergamo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Bergamo Challenger
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Federico GaioGaio (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Jelle SelsSels (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (2-0) – H2H and prediction