Denis Istomin and Sebastian Fanselow will square off in the 1st round of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Fanselow who should win in 3 sets.
Sebastian Fanselow -> 1.64
Denis Istomin -> 2.2
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Prediction and head to head Denis Istomin vs. Sebastian Fanselow
There is no head to head record between Denis Istomin and Sebastian Fanselow since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Denis Istomin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-26 | 8-10 | 4-7 | 1-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-29 | 2-8 | 7-8 | 7-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 254, Istomin will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match in the Forli 3 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Kotov in the 1st round on the 17th of January.
The Uzbek has a composed 0-2 win-loss record in 2022, 0-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Istomin has an overall 565-475 record. He has a negative 103-115 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2020. See his history.
Sebastian Fanselow
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-18 | 11-10 | 3-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 29-34 | 7-9 | 14-18 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-31 | 24-9 | 20-15 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 5-11 | 17-13 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 17-13 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 348, Fanselow got to the 1st round after beating Zachary Svajda 2-6 6-4 6-4 and Peter Polansky 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Fanselow had a good straight sets win against Polansky (6-3 6-3). During the match Fanselow scored 61 points vs Polansky’s 42. The German was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Fanselow made 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Sebastian Fanselow conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 55% of his first serves in, win 87% (27/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Fanselow broke Polansky 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fanselow started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The German has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-4 5-7 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Jason JungJung (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeff WolfWolf – Jack AnthropAnthrop (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nick HardtHardt – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Alexander BernardBernard (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 6-73 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jack SockSock – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-67 6-74 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Go SoedaSoeda – Tung-Lin WuWu (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio GomezGomez – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yoshihito NishiokaYoshihito – Yosuke WatanukiYosuke (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis IstominIstomin – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Go SoedaSoeda (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Emilio GomezGomez (0-2) – H2H and prediction