Zizou Bergs and Altug Celikbilek will square off in the 1st round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zizou Bergs who should win in 2 sets.
Zizou Bergs -> 1.31
Altug Celikbilek -> 3.22
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Prediction and head to head Zizou Bergs vs. Altug Celikbilek
This will be the 3rd time that Zizou Bergs and Altug Celikbilek play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Bergs (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bergs won 6-4 3-6 6-4 in the final in the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger back in 2021.
Zizou Bergs
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-29 | 20-16 | 2-5 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-29 | 9-9 | 17-7 | 15-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-27 | 8-7 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 7-5 | 7-7 | 17-16 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-21 | 2-5 | 15-10 | 21-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 152, Bergs will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 6-1 5-7 6-2 to Ivanovski in the 1st round on the 21st of November.
Zizou has an aggregate 33-27 win-loss record in 2023, 3-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Tallahassee Challenger where he defeated Tung-Lin Wu in the final 7-5 6-2 and the Drummondville Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 6-4 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Bergs has an overall 249-151 record. He has a positive 64-38 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Zizou has never competed in this tournament before.
Altug Celikbilek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-21 | 42-15 | 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. 309, Altug will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-3 6-2
to Lam Coleman Wong in the 1st round on the 19th of November.Altug has an overall 20-26 win-loss record in 2023, 8-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Altug’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Neuve Challenger and the Salinas Challenger.
In terms of his career, Celikbilek has an overall 303-226 record. He has a positive 214-140 record on hard.
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Calum PuttergillPuttergill (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Omar JasikaJasika (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Mathys ErhardErhard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nathan PonwithPonwith – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – Kai WehneltWehnelt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ray HoHo – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yannik SteineggerSteinegger – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction