Jelle Sels and Raul Brancaccio will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Raul Brancaccio who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Raul Brancaccio is the pick to win this match.
Raul Brancaccio -> 1.48
Jelle Sels -> 2.57
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Prediction and head to head Jelle Sels vs. Raul Brancaccio
There is no head to head record between Jelle Sels and Raul Brancaccio since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jelle Sels
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-35 | 7-7 | 21-18 | 15-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-30 | 13-6 | 28-16 | 7-8 | 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 |
Ranked no. 133, the Dutch reached the 2nd round after beating Vit Kopriva 6-3 6-75 6-3.
In the 1st round, Jelle defeated Kopriva (6-3 6-75 6-3). During the match, Sels scored 104 points vs Kopriva’s 88. Sels was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sels struck 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jelle Sels was very effective on serve to win 74% (40/54) of his 1st serve and 58% (26/45) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Dutch broke Kopriva 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Sels has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 56% of his matches (287-225). 19-13 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sels has a compiled66-55 match record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Sels’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Den Haag,the Tulln Challenger,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and the Captif Challenger.
The Dutch has an aggregate 45-31 win-loss record in 2022, 19-13 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Raul Brancaccio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-33 | 7-3 | 24-25 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-27 | 6-6 | 21-19 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-32 | 14-7 | 11-19 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-26 | 7-6 | 31-18 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-26 | 2-1 | 43-21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 190, the Italian reached the 2nd round after beating Henri Laaksonen 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Raul had a good straight sets win against Laaksonen (6-3 6-3). During the match Brancaccio scored 63 points vs Laaksonen’s 45. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Brancaccio recorded 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Raul Brancaccio lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Brancaccio put 62% of his first serves in, winning 81% (29/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Brancaccio broke Laaksonen 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Raul’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the San Benedetto Challenger.
Raul has an overall 39-24 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sels | Brancaccio |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 18 |
| Pts | 104-88 | 63-45 |
| Total Points | 192 | 108 |
| Winners | 40 | 29 |
| %Winners | 38% | 46% |
Both Sels and Brancaccio played 1 match. At the moment, Jelle Sels conceded 1 set while Raul Brancaccio hasn’t conceded a set so far. Sels has played 1 set more than Brancaccio (3 vs 2). Therefore, Sels played 13 games more than Brancaccio. Jelle scored 40 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Raul struck 29 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sels | Brancaccio |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 7 |
| 1st in | 54/99 | 36/58 |
| %1st in | 55% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 40/54 | 29/36 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 26/45 | 10/22 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 45% |
Sels fired 9 aces . Brancaccio scored 7 aces . Sels won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Brancaccio won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sels | Brancaccio |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 57% | 57% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 5 | 2 |
| % Saved | 71% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Jelle broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Jelle surrendered his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Raul broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sels | |||
| R1 Kopriva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-75 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 104-88 | 104-88 | |
| Total points | 192 | 192 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 54/99 | 54/99 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 40/54 | 40/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/45 | 26/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Brancaccio | |||
| R1 Laaksonen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-45 | 63-45 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 36/58 | 36/58 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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