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.

As per the initial odds, Zizou Bergs is the pick to win this match.
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

Zizou Bergs

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Rank
43
High
39
LWLWLLWWWW
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.

Yokkaichi Challenger
Bergs's Record

Altug Celikbilek

Altug Celikbilek

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Rank
442
High
154
LWWWLWWWWW
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.

Yokkaichi Challenger
Celikbilek's Record

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