Mukund Sasikumar and Cem Ilkel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Chisinau Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cem Ilkel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cem Ilkel is the pick to win this match.
Cem Ilkel -> 1.55
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.33
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Prediction and head to head Mukund Sasikumar vs. Cem Ilkel
This will be the 3rd time that Mukund Sasikumar and Cem Ilkel fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Ilkel (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Ilkel won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Taipei City Challenger back in 2019.
Mukund Sasikumar
10 - 9win/loss
418
229
WLLWWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-12 | 8-8 | 3-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-33 | 39-32 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 438, Sasi reached the 1st round after beating Siddhant Banthia 6-3 6-4 and Ramkumar Ramanathan 4-6 7-6(2) 6-4.
In the qualifications against Ramanathan, Sasi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-62 6-4). During the match, Kumar Mukund scored 105 points vs Ramanathan’s 104. The Indian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kumar Mukund bagged 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was extremely efficient on serve to win 71% (46/65) of his 1st serve and 61% (28/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Indian broke Ramanathan twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Indian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has lost 1 set in this competition to win 51% of the points he played.
Kumar Mukund has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (307-274). 5-5 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kumar Mukund has a compiled 237-189 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Sasi’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Baotou.
Kumar Mukund has a composed 10-9 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chisinau Challenger
Kumar Mukund has never competed in this tournament before.
Cem Ilkel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-11 | 30-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-27 | 7-13 | 4-7 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-29 | 6-10 | 0-4 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-16 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 16-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-29 | 17-9 | 13-11 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 521, Cem will start his run in the Chisinau Challenger after he played his last match in the Tbilisi Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 6-3 to Hussey in the qualifications on the 18th of May.
Ilkel has a compiled 29-10 win-loss record in 2025, 29-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Turk’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Zahra and M15 Pretoria.
In terms of his career, Cem has an overall 415-311 record. He has a positive 268-159 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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LWLLLWWWLW Tennis Scores in Chisinau Challenger
- Toby SamuelSamuel – Lilian MarmousezMarmousez (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Harry WendelkenWendelken (3-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (7-63 4-6 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Alastair GrayGray (6-2 4-6 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stuart ParkerParker – Ilya SnitariSnitari (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Stuart ParkerParker (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Cem IlkelIlkel (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandre BakshiBakshi – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Charles BroomBroom – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Philip HenningHenning – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
