Jelle Sels and Benoit Paire will square off in the 2nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. 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 Jelle Sels who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jelle Sels is the pick to win this match.
Jelle Sels -> 1.56
Benoit Paire -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Jelle Sels vs. Benoit Paire
This will be the 2nd time that Jelle Sels and Benoit Paire square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sels (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Sels won 7-6(4) 3-6 6-4 in the 1st round in the Roanne Challenger back in 2021.
Jelle Sels
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-9 | 13-6 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-27 | 5-4 | 3-14 | 3-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-33 | 0-0 | 26-17 | 22-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-31 | 2-3 | 14-13 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 18-10 | 0-1 | 14-8 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 135 (career-high), Sels reached the 2nd round after defeating Evan Furness 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Furness (7-5 6-4). During the match, Sels scored 76 points vs Furness’s 64. Sels was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sels bagged 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jelle Sels lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Sels put 61% of his first serves in, winning 79% (34/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Sels was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Furness 4 times.
Sels has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 56% of his matches (285-223). 17-11 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sels has a composed64-53 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Sels’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Den Haag,the Tulln Challenger,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and the Captif Challenger.
The Dutch has an overall 43-29 win-loss record in 2022, 17-11 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Benoit Paire
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-13 | 3-6 | 0-2 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-38 | 13-12 | 27-17 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-31 | 7-13 | 6-14 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-32 | 6-12 | 7-13 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-13 | 8-6 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 177, Paire got to the 2nd round after beating Duje Ajdukovic 7-65 6-3.
In the 1st round, Benoit had a good straight sets win against Ajdukovic (7-65 6-3). During the match Paire scored 87 points vs Ajdukovic’s 83. Benoit was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Paire struck 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Benoit Paire lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Paire put 54% of his first serves in, winning 63% (27/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (19/37) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Ajdukovic 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).
The French player has an aggregate 15-29 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sels | Paire |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 |
| Pts | 76-64 | 87-83 |
| Total Points | 140 | 170 |
| Winners | 34 | 27 |
| %Winners | 45% | 31% |
Both Sels and Paire played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sels and Paire have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (22). Jelle scored 34 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Paire scored 27 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sels | Paire |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 43/70 | 43/80 |
| %1st in | 61% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 27/43 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 63% |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 19/37 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 51% |
Sels fired 5 aces . Paire recorded 6 aces . Sels won 79% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Paire won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sels | Paire |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/16 |
| % Converted | 100% | 25% |
| Conceded | 10 | 6 |
| Saved | 8 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Jelle broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Sels dropped his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Benoit broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. Benoit conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sels | |||
| R1 Furness |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-64 | 76-64 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 43/70 | 43/70 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 34/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 12/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Paire | |||
| R1 Ajdukovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 87-83 | 87-83 | |
| Total points | 170 | 170 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 43/80 | 43/80 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 27/43 | 27/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/37 | 19/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 4/16 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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