Abedallah Shelbayh and Li Tu will square off in the 1st round of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on Court 1. 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 -> 1.46
Li Tu -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Abedallah Shelbayh vs. Li Tu
There is no head to head record between Abedallah Shelbayh and Li Tu since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Abedallah Shelbayh
24 - 27win/loss
291
181
WWLWWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29-28 | 17-12 | 6-11 | 4-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 346, the will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match in the San Diego 2 Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-5 6-3 to Andrade in the 1st round on the 23rd of September.
Abedallah has a compiled 23-27 win-loss record in 2026, 0-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The has an overall 169-142 record. He has a negative 21-23 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21-16 | 19-12 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 17-23 | 11-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 37-21 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 529, Tu reached the 1st round after defeating Nicolas Oliveira 6-2 6-3 and James Kent Trotter 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Kent Trotter (6-3 6-3). During the match Tu scored 67 points vs Kent Trotter’s 54. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Tu bagged 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Li Tu was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Li broke Kent Trotter 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Tu started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
ATP Columbus Challenger - Li Tu's projected path
Li’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Burnie and the Wuning 2 Challenger.
Li has a compiled 21-15 win-loss record in 2026, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Tu has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Braden ShickShick – Ozan BarisBaris (7-64 0-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel MilavskyMilavsky – Blaise BicknellBicknell (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mees RottgeringRottgering – Edward WinterWinter (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Tyler ZinkZink (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes – Andrew FentyFenty (0-0) – H2H and prediction
