Justin Engel and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Hamburg Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 7:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Justin Engel who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Justin Engel is the pick to win this match.
Justin Engel -> 1.44
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe -> 2.64

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Prediction and head to head Justin Engel vs. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe

There is no head to head record between Justin Engel and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Justin Engel

Ranked no. 235, Justin got to the 2^nd round after defeating Sander Jong 7-6(4) 7-6(10).

In the 1^st round, Justin had a good straight sets win against Jong (7-6⁴ 7-6¹⁰). During the match, Engel scored 90 points vs Jong’s 81. Justin was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Regarding the service games, Engel scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Justin Engel was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 86% (43/50) of his 1st serve and 73% (19/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.

Engel has a winning record in the last 5 years having won 55% of his matches (86-70). 4-4 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Engel has a compiled5-8 record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.

The German’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Cadolzburg.

Engel has an aggregate 34-31 win-loss record in 2025, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Hamburg Challenger

The German has never competed in this tournament before.

Cedrik-Marcel Stebe

Ranked no. 435, Cedrik-Marcel got to the 2^nd round after beating Niels Mcdonald 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Stebe had a good straight sets win against Mcdonald (6-4 6-4). During the match Stebe scored 70 points vs Mcdonald’s 55. Stebe was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Stebe struck 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe was very efficient on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Cedrik-Marcel broke Mcdonald 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Augsburg Challenger where he defeated Alexander Ritschard in the final 6-3 6-3.

Cedrik-Marcel has a compiled 22-12 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Engel	Stebe
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	26	20
Pts	90-81	70-55
Total Points	171	125
Winners	43	28
%Winners	48%	40%

Both Engel and Stebe played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Engel and Stebe have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Engel played 6 games more than Stebe. Justin scored 43 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Cedrik-Marcel blasted 28 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Engel	Stebe
Aces	6	6
Avg per match	6	6
1st in	50/76	37/55
%1st in	66%	67%
1st pts	43/50	28/37
%1st pts	86%	76%
2nd pts	19/26	10/18
%2nd pts	73%	56%

Engel scored 6 aces . Stebe scored 6 aces . Engel won 86% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Stebe won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Engel	Stebe
Won	0	4
Converted	0/5	4/7
% Converted	0%	57%
Conceded	2	6
Saved	2	4
% Saved	100%	67%
Times Broken	0	2

The German hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. Justin was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points without even conceding a single break point. Cedrik-Marcel broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Cedrik-Marcel conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Engel
	R1 Jong	Total
Score	7-64 7-610
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	26	26
pts	90-81	90-81
Total points	171	171
Winners	43	43
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	50/76	50/76
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	43/50	43/50
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	19/26	19/26
% 2nd pts	73%	73%
Breaks
Won	0	0
Converted	0/5	0/5
Converted %	0%	0%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Stebe
	R1 Mcdonald	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	70-55	70-55
Total points	125	125
Winners	28	28
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	37/55	37/55
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	28/37	28/37
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	10/18	10/18
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

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