Blaz Rola and Ben Shelton will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Champaign Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blaz Rola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaz Rola is the pick to win this match.
Blaz Rola -> 1.47
Ben Shelton -> 2.6
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Prediction and head to head Blaz Rola vs. Ben Shelton
There is no head to head record between Blaz Rola and Ben Shelton since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Blaz Rola
Ranked no. 180, Rola will start his run in the Champaign Challenger after he played his last match in the Knoxville Challenger where he lost 7-6(3) 6-4 to Altmaier in the 2nd round on the 10th of November.
Rola has an overall 23-26 win-loss record in 2021, 3-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title in the Split 1 Challenger where he overcame Blaz Kavcic in the final 2-6 6-3 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Rola has an overall 412-279 record. He has a negative 26-30 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Champaign Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2014 and 2018. See his history.
Ben Shelton
Ranked no. 678 (career-high), the American reached the 1st round after defeating Govind Nanda 6-4 6-4 and Hunter Heck 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Ben had a good straight sets win against Heck (6-3 6-3). During the match Shelton scored 65 points vs Heck’s 49. The American was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Shelton scored 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ben Shelton lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Shelton put 60% of his first serves in, winning 82% (27/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Ben broke Heck 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Shelton started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Shelton’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Champaign.
Ben has a compiled 16-6 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Jeff WolfWolf – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Arjun KadheKadhe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Tung-Lin WuWu (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Malek JaziriJaziri (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vasil KirkovKirkov – Nick ChappellChappell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
