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

Altug Celikbilek

12 - 9win/loss

Hard
6-3
I Hard
6-6
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. 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

Fajing Sun

6 - 6win/loss

Hard
4-4
I Hard
2-2
Rank
277
High
276
LWWWWLWWWW
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.

Gwangju Challenger
Sun's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

A.Celikbilek
F.Sun
1h:33
1h:33
Time on court​
1h:35
1h:35
1h:33
1h:33
Last match​
1h:35
1h:35
1
1
Match played
1
1
21
21
Games Played​
16
16
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
75
75
Total points​
64
64
75
75
Avg point​
64
64
30
30
Winners
27
27
30
30
Avg Winners​
27
27
40%
40%
Ratio winners
42%
42%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
0
0
4
4
Avg Aces
0
0
4
4
Double Faults
1
1
4
4
Avg Double Faults
1
1
30/41
30/41
1st won total​
27/39
27/39
!
73%
73%
1st won %
69%
69%
13/29
13/29
2nd won total​
7/20
7/20
45%
45%
2nd won %
!
35%
35%
-- Break Points --
5/5
5/5
BP won
6/11
6/11
5/5
5/5
Avg BP won
6/11
6/11
!
100%
100%
Won
!
55%
55%
5
5
Conceded
7
7
5
5
Avg Conceded
7
7
3
3
Broken
2
2
3
3
Avg Broken
2
2
2
2
Saved
5
5

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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