Yanki Erel and Egor Agafonov will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on LIMAK 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 Yanki Erel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yanki Erel is the pick to win this match.
Yanki Erel -> 1.53
Egor Agafonov -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Yanki Erel vs. Egor Agafonov
This will be the 3rd time that Yanki Erel and Egor Agafonov clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Erel won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the 2nd round in M25 Monastir back in 2023.
Yanki Erel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-26 | 19-18 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-25 | 44-18 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 27-14 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-19 | 20-7 | 11-11 | 14-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 508, Erel will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in the Astana Challenger where he lost 5-4 ret. to Fomin in the 2nd round on the 17th of July.
Yanki has an overall 21-18 win-loss record in 2024, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Erel’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Doha.
Talking about his overall career, Erel has an overall 166-112 record. He has a positive 105-52 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Egor Agafonov
36 - 22win/loss
540
483
LWWLWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 45-28 | 37-24 | 2-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-20 | 23-13 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-15 | 8-9 | 8-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 550, the Russian got to the 1st round after defeating Aleksandr Braynin 7-6(3) 6-3 and Aleksandre Bakshi 3-6 7-5 6-1.
In the qualifications against Bakshi, Egor recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 6-1). During the match Agafonov scored 94 points vs Bakshi’s 83. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Agafonov scored 6 aces and he was not very consistent on his 2nd serve to score 11 double faults. Egor Agafonov lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Agafonov put 64% of his first serves in, winning 72% (38/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (14/30) on the 2nd serve. Egor broke Bakshi 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Egor started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Aktobe.
Egor has an aggregate 36-22 win-loss record in 2024, 28-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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