Luca Potenza and Koray Kirci will face off in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Potenza who should win in 2 sets.
Luca Potenza -> 1.164
Koray Kirci -> 4.65
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Prediction and head to head Luca Potenza vs. Koray Kirci
There is no head to head record between Luca Potenza and Koray Kirci since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Luca Potenza
43 - 23win/loss
362
357
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58-31 | 53-25 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-17 | 14-7 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-28 | 6-9 | 13-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-26 | 10-9 | 13-11 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-25 | 27-13 | 6-7 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 479, Luca got to the 1st round after defeating Manas Manoj Dhamne 7-6(3) 6-4 and Arda Azkara 6-2 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, Luca had a good straight sets win against Azkara (6-2 7-64). During the match, Potenza scored 85 points vs Azkara’s 72. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Potenza scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Luca Potenza was very efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Potenza broke Azkara 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Luca started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 53% of the points he played.
Potenza has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (206-142). 40-19 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Potenza has a composed142-72 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
Luca’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
Potenza has an aggregate 43-23 win-loss record in 2025, 40-19 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Koray Kirci
17 - 13win/loss
896
616
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-16 | 21-13 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-23 | 7-10 | 5-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-21 | 10-14 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-27 | 6-4 | 15-22 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-20 | 0-2 | 16-16 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 896, Koray will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Bali where he lost 6-2 6-2
to Nakagawa in the 1st round on the 12th of August.Koray has an overall 17-13 win-loss record in 2025, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Turk has an overall 149-182 record. He has a positive 62-61 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger
- Lukas KleinKlein – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis – Christian LangmoLangmo (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mert Naci TurkerNaci Turker – Kaya ArincArinc (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ivan NedelkoNedelko – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vadym UrsuUrsu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Koray KirciKirci – Luca PotenzaPotenza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Alastair GrayGray (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Peter MakkMakk – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-0) – H2H and prediction