Viktor Durasovic and Abedallah Shelbayh will clash 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 10:30 am on HILTON COURT. 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 Abedallah Shelbayh who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Abedallah Shelbayh is the pick to win this match.
Abedallah Shelbayh -> 1.68
Viktor Durasovic -> 2.09

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Prediction and head to head Viktor Durasovic vs. Abedallah Shelbayh

There is no head to head record between Viktor Durasovic and Abedallah Shelbayh since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Viktor Durasovic

Viktor Durasovic

22 - 23win/loss

Hard
7-8
I Hard
10-5
Clay
5-9
Grass
0-1
Rank
238
High
222
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 33-32 8-10 5-9 20-12 0-1 0-0
2024 48-33 19-10 15-15 14-8 0-0 0-0
2023 25-37 5-8 17-18 2-9 0-1 1-1
2022 28-36 2-7 15-18 11-11 0-0 0-0
2021 31-24 2-4 13-12 16-8 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 241, the Norwegian got to the 2nd round after defeating Mats Rosenkranz 7-6(5) 6-3.

In the 1st round, Viktor had a good straight sets win against Rosenkranz (7-65 6-3). During the match, Durasovic scored 64 points vs Rosenkranz’s 57. The Norwegian was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Durasovic fired 9 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Viktor Durasovic was very efficient on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Durasovic was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Rosenkranz 3 times.

Durasovic has winning record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (308-289). 7-8 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Durasovic has a compiled 131-93 match record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Nottingham Challenger where he defeated Henry Searle in the final 7-6(6) 3-6 6-1.

Durasovic has an overall 22-23 win-loss record in 2025, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Istanbul Challenger

Viktor has never competed in this tournament before.

Istanbul Challenger
Durasovic's Record

Abedallah Shelbayh

Abedallah Shelbayh

15 - 23win/loss

Hard
13-8
I Hard
2-4
Clay
0-11
Rank
278
High
181
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-29 24-13 0-11 3-5 0-0 0-0
2024 39-35 18-13 12-13 8-8 1-1 0-0
2023 43-32 27-15 7-7 5-6 4-4 0-0
2022 25-7 17-5 3-1 5-1 0-0 0-0
2021 7-8 4-4 3-3 0-1 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 351, Shelbayh reached the 2nd round after beating Moez Echargui 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round, Shelbayh had a good straight sets win against Echargui (6-4 6-4). During the match Shelbayh scored 64 points vs Echargui’s 59. The was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Shelbayh scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Abedallah Shelbayh was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shelbayh broke Echargui twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Shelbayh’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Astana Challenger.

Abedallah has an overall 15-23 win-loss record in 2025, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Istanbul Challenger
Shelbayh's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

V.Durasovic
A.Shelbayh
1h:26
1h:26
Time on court​
1h:34
1h:34
1h:26
1h:26
Last match​
1h:34
1h:34
1
1
Match played
1
1
22
22
Games Played​
20
20
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
64
64
Total points​
64
64
64
64
Avg point​
64
64
31
31
Winners
28
28
31
31
Avg Winners​
28
28
48%
48%
Ratio winners
44%
44%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
1
1
9
9
Avg Aces
1
1
0
0
Double Faults
1
1
0
0
Avg Double Faults
1
1
31/40
31/40
1st won total​
28/36
28/36
!
78%
78%
1st won %
!
78%
78%
11/18
11/18
2nd won total​
16/28
16/28
!
61%
61%
2nd won %
57%
57%
-- Break Points --
3/3
3/3
BP won
2/4
2/4
3/3
3/3
Avg BP won
2/4
2/4
!
100%
100%
Won
50%
50%
1
1
Conceded
4
4
1
1
Avg Conceded
4
4
1
1
Broken
0
0
1
1
Avg Broken
!
0
0
0
0
Saved
4
4
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Durasovic Shelbayh
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 20
Pts 64-57 64-59
Total Points 121 123
Winners 31 28
%Winners 48% 44%

Both Durasovic and Shelbayh played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Durasovic and Shelbayh have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Durasovic played 2 games more than Shelbayh. The Norwegian scored 31 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Abedallah made 28 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve Durasovic Shelbayh
Aces 9 1
Avg per match 9 1
1st in 40/58 36/64
%1st in 69% 56%
1st pts 31/40 28/36
%1st pts 78% 78%
2nd pts 11/18 16/28
%2nd pts 61% 57%

Durasovic made 9 aces . Shelbayh scored 1 ace . Durasovic won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Shelbayh won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Durasovic Shelbayh
Won 3 2
Converted 3/3 2/4
% Converted 100% 50%
Conceded 1 4
Saved 0 4
% Saved 0% 100%
Times Broken 1 0

Durasovic broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Durasovic lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Abedallah was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Durasovic
R1
Rosenkranz		 Total
Score 7-65 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
pts 64-57 64-57
Total points 121 121
Winners 31 31
%Winners 48% 48%
SERVE
Aces 9 9
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 40/58 40/58
% 1st in 69% 69%
1st pts 31/40 31/40
% 1st pts 78% 78%
2nd pts 11/18 11/18
% 2nd pts 61% 61%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/3 3/3
Converted % 100% 100%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Shelbayh
R1
Echargui		 R1
Echargui		 Total
Score 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 20 20 40
pts 64-59 64-59 128-118
Total points 123 123 246
Winners 28 28 56
%Winners 44% 44% 44%
SERVE
Aces 1 1 2
Double Faults 1 1 2
1st in 36/64 36/64 72/128
% 1st in 56% 56% 56%
1st pts 28/36 28/36 56/72
% 1st pts 78% 78% 78%
2nd pts 16/28 16/28 32/56
% 2nd pts 57% 57% 57%
Breaks
Won 2 2 4
Converted 2/4 2/4 4/8
Converted % 50% 50% 50%
Conceded 4 4 8
Saved 4/4 4/4 8
Saved % 100% 100% 200%
Times Broken 0 0 0

Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger

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