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H2H, prediction of Altug Celikbilek vs Fajing Sun in Gwangju Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 15th April 2024

PREVIEW. Gwangju Challenger. Celikbilek and Sun will face off in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their upcoming match on Monday the 15th of April

Mark Hall

14 April 2024

Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Fajing Sun

Altug Celikbilek and Fajing Sun will square off in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on SHOW COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.55
Fajing Sun -> 2.35

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Prediction and head to head Altug Celikbilek vs. Fajing Sun

There is no head to head record between Altug Celikbilek and Fajing Sun since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Altug Celikbilek

12 - 9win/loss

Hard

6-3

I Hard

6-6

Rank
450

High
154

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	45-20	39-14	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

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Ranked no. 409, Altug reached the qualifications after defeating Jie Cui 7-6¹ 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Cui (7-6¹ 6-2). During the match, Celikbilek scored 75 points vs Cui’s 56. Altug was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Celikbilek blasted 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Altug Celikbilek lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Celikbilek put 59% of his first serves in, winning 73% (30/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. Celikbilek was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Cui 5 times.

Celikbilek has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (315-236). 6-3 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Celikbilek has an overall 220-144 match record in the last years on hard.

Altug has an overall 12-9 win-loss record in 2024, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Gwangju Challenger

Gwangju Challenger

Celikbilek's Record

Fajing Sun

6 - 6win/loss

Hard

4-4

I Hard

2-2

Rank
278

High
277

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	51-27	42-23	7-2	2-2	0-0	0-0
2023	32-27	25-22	7-5	0-0	0-0	0-0
2022	32-22	32-18	0-4	0-0	0-0	0-0
2021	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2020	1-1	1-1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 441, Fajing reached the qualifications after beating Hiroki Moriya 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-3 6-1). During the match Sun scored 64 points vs Moriya’s 43. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Sun couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Fajing Sun lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sun put 66% of his first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (7/20) on the 2nd serve. Sun broke Moriya 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).

Fajing’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Creteil.

Sun has an overall 6-6 win-loss record in 2024, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Gwangju Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2018. See his history.

Gwangju Challenger

Sun's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

A.Celikbilek

F.Sun

1h:33

Time on court

1h:35

1h:33

Last match

1h:35

Match played

Games Played

Set played

Total points

Avg point

Winners

Avg Winners

40%

Ratio winners

42%

-- Serve --

Aces

Avg Aces

Double Faults

Avg Double Faults

30/41

1st won total

27/39

73%

1st won %

69%

13/29

2nd won total

7/20

45%

2nd won %

35%

-- Break Points --

5/5

BP won

6/11

5/5

Avg BP won

6/11

100%

Won

55%

Conceded

Avg Conceded

Broken

Avg Broken

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Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Celikbilek	Sun
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	16
Pts	75-56	64-43
Total Points	131	107
Winners	30	27
%Winners	40%	42%

Both Celikbilek and Sun played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Celikbilek and Sun have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Celikbilek played 5 games more than Sun. The Turk scored 30 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Fajing made 27 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Celikbilek	Sun
Aces	4	0
Avg per match	4	0
1st in	41/70	39/59
%1st in	59%	66%
1st pts	30/41	27/39
%1st pts	73%	69%
2nd pts	13/29	7/20
%2nd pts	45%	35%

Celikbilek blasted 4 aces . Sun didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Celikbilek won 73% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Sun won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 35% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Celikbilek	Sun
Won	5	6
Converted	5/5	6/11
% Converted	100%	55%
Conceded	5	7
Saved	2	5
% Saved	40%	71%
Times Broken	3	2

Altug broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Turk surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Sun conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

	Q1 Cui	Total
Celikbilek
Score	7-6¹ 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	75-56	75-56
Total points	131	131
Winners	30	30
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	41/70	41/70
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	30/41	30/41
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	13/29	13/29
% 2nd pts	45%	45%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/5	5/5
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	2/5	2
Saved %	40%	40%
Times Broken	3	3

	Q1 Moriya	Total
Sun
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	64-43	64-43
Total points	107	107
Winners	27	27
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	39/59	39/59
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	27/39	27/39
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	7/20	7/20
% 2nd pts	35%	35%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/11	6/11
Converted %	55%	55%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	5/7	5
Saved %	71%	71%
Times Broken	2	2