Cem Ilkel and Pierre-Hugues Herbert will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Bergamo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on BERGAMO ITALCEMENTI. 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 Pierre-Hugues Herbert who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pierre-Hugues Herbert is the pick to win this match.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 1.72
Cem Ilkel -> 2.04
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Prediction and head to head Cem Ilkel vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert
There is no head to head record between Cem Ilkel and Pierre-Hugues Herbert since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Cem Ilkel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 13-15 | 2-3 | 1-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 258, Cem got to the 2nd round after beating Illya Marchenko 6-73 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round against Marchenko, The Turk recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 6-4 7-5). During the match, Ilkel scored 102 points vs Marchenko’s 98. Cem was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ilkel struck 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Cem Ilkel was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (36/48) of his 1st serve and 65% (33/51) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ilkel broke Marchenko 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Ilkel has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (368-270). 25-12 on indoor hard courts in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ilkel has an aggregate 78-58 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Turk’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Lugano Challenger and M25 Roda de Bara.
Cem has an overall 31-25 win-loss record in 2023, 25-12 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bergamo Challenger
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-31 | 3-5 | 8-11 | 19-12 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 2-4 | 5-4 | 16-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 10-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-21 | 4-7 | 4-6 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 4-3 | 7-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 372, Pierre-Hugues reached the 2nd round after beating Mukund Sasikumar 7-67 6-4, Mark Lajal 7-612 6-3 and Flavio Cobolli 7-65 6-3.
In the 1st round, Pierre-Hugues had a good straight sets win against Cobolli (7-65 6-3). During the match Herbert scored 70 points vs Cobolli’s 53. Herbert was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Herbert fired 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Pierre-Hugues Herbert was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 90% (26/29) of his 1st serve and 90% (18/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Cobolli twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
Herbert’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the St. Brieuc Challenger.
Pierre-Hugues has an overall 17-18 win-loss record in 2023, 11-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bergamo Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ilkel | Herbert |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 67 |
| Pts | 102-98 | 227-185 |
| Total Points | 200 | 412 |
| Winners | 36 | 107 |
| %Winners | 35% | 47% |
Ilkel played 1 match while Herbert competed in 3 matches. Herbert started his run from the qualifications while Ilkel had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Cem Ilkel surrendered 1 set while Pierre-Hugues Herbert hasn’t dropped a set so far. Ilkel has played 3 set(s) less than Herbert (3 vs 6). Therefore, Ilkel played 32 games less than Herbert. The Turk scored 36 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Herbert scored 107 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ilkel | Herbert |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 38 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 12.7 |
| 1st in | 48/99 | 121/192 |
| %1st in | 48% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 36/48 | 107/121 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 33/51 | 42/71 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 59% |
Ilkel recorded 5 aces . Herbert struck 38 aces (12.7 per match). Ilkel won 75% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Herbert won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ilkel | Herbert |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/23 |
| % Converted | 57% | 22% |
| Conceded | 6 | 5 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 67% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Cem broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Turk lost his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Herbert broke his opponents 5 times with a 22% conversion rate. Herbert conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ilkel | |||
| R1 Marchenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-73 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 102-98 | 102-98 | |
| Total points | 200 | 200 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 48/99 | 48/99 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 36/48 | 36/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Herbert | |||||
| Q1 Kumar Mukund |
Q3 Lajal |
R1 Cobolli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 6-4 | 7-612 6-3 | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 22 | 22 | 67 | |
| pts | 75-61 | 82-71 | 70-53 | 227-185 | |
| Total points | 136 | 153 | 123 | 412 | |
| Winners | 37 | 44 | 26 | 107 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 54% | 37% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 15 | 13 | 10 | 38 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 42/62 | 50/81 | 29/49 | 121/192 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 62% | 59% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 37/42 | 44/50 | 26/29 | 107/121 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | 90% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 11/31 | 18/20 | 42/71 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 35% | 90% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
| Converted | 1/7 | 2/6 | 2/10 | 5/23 | |
| Converted % | 14% | 33% | 20% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 4/5 | 0/0 | 4 | |
| Saved % | – | 80% | – | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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