Cem Ilkel and Savva Polukhin will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on LIMAK COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Savva Polukhin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Savva Polukhin is the pick to win this match.
Savva Polukhin -> 1.78
Cem Ilkel -> 1.97

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Prediction and head to head Cem Ilkel vs. Savva Polukhin

There is no head to head record between Cem Ilkel and Savva Polukhin since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Cem Ilkel

Ranked no. 486, Cem reached the qualifications after beating Cengiz Aksu 6-3 3-1 ret..

In the qualifications against Aksu, Ilkel had a free pass after Aksu retired on a 6-3 3-1 . scoreline.

Ilkel has winning record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (331-264). 5-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ilkel has a composed 195-126 record in the last years on hard.

The Turk has a composed 11-18 win-loss record in 2024, 5-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Istanbul Challenger

Savva Polukhin

Ranked no. 781, the Russian got to the qualifications after beating Evgeny Philippov 3-6 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications against Philippov, The Russian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 6-4). During the match Polukhin scored 90 points vs Philippov’s 87. Polukhin was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Polukhin scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Savva Polukhin lost the serve 4 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Polukhin put 59% of his first serves in, winning 61% (35/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the 2nd serve. Polukhin broke Philippov 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Polukhin’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Shymkent and M15 Monastir.

Polukhin has an overall 35-10 win-loss record in 2024, 11-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Istanbul Challenger

The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ilkel	Polukhin
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	13	29
Pts	43-28	90-87
Total Points	71	177
Winners	17	35
%Winners	40%	39%

Both Ilkel and Polukhin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Savva Polukhin lost 1 set while Cem Ilkel hasn’t conceded a set so far. Talking about their workload, Ilkel and Polukhin have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Ilkel played 16 games less than Polukhin. Cem scored 17 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Polukhin made 35 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ilkel	Polukhin
Aces	3	1
Avg per match	3	1
1st in	22/39	57/97
%1st in	56%	59%
1st pts	17/22	35/57
%1st pts	77%	61%
2nd pts	10/17	22/40
%2nd pts	59%	55%

Ilkel fired 3 aces . Polukhin made 1 ace . Ilkel won 77% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Polukhin won 61% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ilkel	Polukhin
Won	3	4
Converted	3/4	4/6
% Converted	75%	67%
Conceded	1	15
Saved	0	11
% Saved	0%	73%
Times Broken	1	4

Cem broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Turk lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Savva broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.

Ilkel
	Q1 Aksu	Total
Score	6-3 3-1 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	13
pts	43-28	43-28
Total points	71	71
Winners	17	17
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	22/39	22/39
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	17/22	17/22
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	10/17	10/17
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Polukhin
	Q1 Philippov	Total
Score	3-6 6-4 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	29	29
pts	90-87	90-87
Total points	177	177
Winners	35	35
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	57/97	57/97
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	35/57	35/57
% 1st pts	61%	61%
2nd pts	22/40	22/40
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	15	15
Saved	11/15	11
Saved %	73%	73%
Times Broken	4	4

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