Altug Celikbilek and Fajing Sun will square off in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st 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
| 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 |
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
Fajing Sun
| 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 |
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.
H2H Performance in the tournament
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.
| Celikbilek | |||
| Q1 Cui |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Sun | |||
| Q1 Moriya |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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