Ben Shelton and Mitchell Krueger will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ben Shelton who should win in 2 sets.
Ben Shelton -> 1.27
Mitchell Krueger -> 3.62
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Mitchell Krueger
This will be the 2nd time that Ben Shelton and Mitchell Krueger square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Shelton (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Shelton won 6-3 6-4 in the quarter in the Tiburon Challenger back in October 2022.
Ben Shelton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-24 | 23-9 | 7-5 | 4-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-26 | 22-13 | 8-4 | 8-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-26 | 21-13 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-11 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 24-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-7 | 7-3 | 5-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128 (career-high), Shelton reached the 2nd round after defeating Keegan Smith 4-6 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round against Smith, Ben recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-3). During the match, Shelton scored 97 points vs Smith’s 86. Ben was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Regarding the service games, Shelton bagged 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Ben Shelton was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (41/55) of his 1st serve and 61% (25/41) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Shelton broke Smith 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Shelton has a fantastic match record in the last 2 years having won 73% of his matches (49-18). 15-2 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shelton has an overall21-4 record in the last 2 years on indoor hard courts.
Ben’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Rome Challenger,the Chicago Challenger,the Tiburon Challenger and the Charlottesville Challenger.
The American has an overall 31-11 win-loss record in 2022, 15-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Ben has never competed in this tournament before.
Mitchell Krueger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-32 | 12-17 | 9-7 | 7-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-31 | 30-17 | 9-7 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 15-19 | 4-4 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-28 | 18-15 | 6-5 | 1-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-24 | 19-12 | 5-5 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 197, the American reached the 2nd round after defeating Giles Hussey 7-61 6-1.
In the 1st round, Krueger had a good straight sets win against Hussey (7-61 6-1). During the match Krueger scored 70 points vs Hussey’s 51. Krueger was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Krueger managed to score 5 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Mitchell Krueger was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (31/42) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Hussey 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Krueger’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Traralgon Challenger.
Mitchell has a compiled 29-27 win-loss record in 2022, 1-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shelton | Krueger |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 29 | 20 |
| Pts | 97-86 | 70-51 |
| Total Points | 183 | 121 |
| Winners | 41 | 31 |
| %Winners | 42% | 44% |
Both Shelton and Krueger played 1 match. At the moment, Ben Shelton surrendered 1 set while Mitchell Krueger hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Shelton has played 1 set more than Krueger (3 vs 2). Therefore, Shelton played 9 games more than Krueger. Ben scored 41 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Mitchell recorded 31 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shelton | Krueger |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 5 |
| 1st in | 55/96 | 42/61 |
| %1st in | 57% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 41/55 | 31/42 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 25/41 | 10/19 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 53% |
Shelton bagged 5 aces . Krueger blasted 5 aces . Shelton won 75% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Krueger won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shelton | Krueger |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 38% | 67% |
| Conceded | 10 | 8 |
| Saved | 8 | 7 |
| % Saved | 80% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Shelton broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Shelton surrendered his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Krueger conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Shelton | |||
| R1 Smith | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 97-86 | 97-86 | |
| Total points | 183 | 183 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 55/96 | 55/96 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 41/55 | 41/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/41 | 25/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Krueger | |||
| R1 Hussey | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-61 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 70-51 | 70-51 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 42/61 | 42/61 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 31/42 | 31/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Knoxville Challenger
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Inaki Montes-De La TorreMontes-De La Torre (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas GerchGerch – Paul JubbJubb (5-7 7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-1) – H2H and prediction