Elmer Moller and Michael Geerts will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elmer Moller who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elmer Moller is the pick to win this match.
Elmer Moller -> 1.7
Michael Geerts -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Elmer Moller vs. Michael Geerts
There is no head to head record between Elmer Moller and Michael Geerts since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Elmer Moller
44 - 18win/loss
172
169
LLWWWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 57-23 | 5-3 | 47-18 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-21 | 14-11 | 31-8 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-15 | 10-5 | 12-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-9 | 8-4 | 2-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 251 (career-high), Elmer got to the 2nd round after defeating Koray Kirci 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Dane had a good straight sets win against Kirci (6-2 6-1). During the match, Moller scored 60 points vs Kirci’s 37. Moller was very aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Regarding the service games, Moller scored 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Elmer Moller lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Moller put 52% of his first serves in, winning 60% (15/25) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the 2nd serve. Elmer broke Kirci 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Moller has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 68% of his matches (131-63). 4-2 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Moller has an aggregate36-22 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.
Elmer’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula,the Augsburg Challenger,M25 Aarhus and the Liberec Challenger.
Elmer has an overall 44-18 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Elmer has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Geerts
32 - 28win/loss
299
212
LWWWWWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 46-34 | 17-10 | 10-12 | 14-11 | 0-1 | 5-0 |
| 2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 322, the Belgian reached the 2nd round after beating Mikhail Kukushkin 4-6 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round against Kukushkin, Geerts recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 7-5). During the match Geerts scored 103 points vs Kukushkin’s 92. Michael was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Geerts struck 6 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Michael Geerts was very effective on serve to win 77% (43/56) of his 1st serve and 51% (19/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Michael broke Kukushkin 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
Michael’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Martos and M25 Castelo Branco.
Geerts has a composed 32-28 win-loss record in 2024, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Moller | Geerts |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 31 |
| Pts | 60-37 | 103-92 |
| Total Points | 97 | 195 |
| Winners | 15 | 43 |
| %Winners | 25% | 42% |
Both Moller and Geerts played 1 match. At the moment, Michael Geerts conceded 1 set while Elmer Moller hasn’t conceded a set so far. Moller has played 1 set(s) less than Geerts (2 vs 3). Therefore, Moller played 16 games less than Geerts. Elmer scored 15 winners (25% of the total points). On the other side, Geerts made 43 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Moller | Geerts |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 25/48 | 56/93 |
| %1st in | 52% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 15/25 | 43/56 |
| %1st pts | 60% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 19/37 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 51% |
Moller made 3 aces . Geerts managed to score 6 aces . Moller won 60% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Geerts won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Moller | Geerts |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 4/14 |
| % Converted | 75% | 29% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
The Dane broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Dane conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Geerts broke his opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. The Belgian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Moller | |||
| R1 Kirci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 60-37 | 60-37 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/48 | 25/48 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 15/25 | 15/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 15/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Geerts | |||
| R1 Kukushkin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 103-92 | 103-92 | |
| Total points | 195 | 195 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 56/93 | 56/93 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 43/56 | 43/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 19/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/14 | 4/14 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWWWWLL Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Martin DammDamm (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-72 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Jack Pinnington JonesPinnington Jones – Aziz DougazDougaz (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Benjamin LockLock – August HolmgrenHolmgren (7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (2-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Egor AgafonovAgafonov – Yanki ErelErel (3-6 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-4 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Elmer MollerMoller – Koray KirciKirci (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Matej DodigDodig – Tuncay DuranDuran (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Elias YmerYmer – Cezar CretuCretu (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (2-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-7(2) 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jack Pinnington JonesPinnington Jones – Aziz DougazDougaz (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Benjamin LockLock – August HolmgrenHolmgren (7-6(3) 6-1) – See score progression
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Egor AgafonovAgafonov – Yanki ErelErel (3-6 6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-4 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Martin DammDamm (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
