Ben Shelton and Fabio Fognini will square off in the 1st round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ben Shelton who should win in 2 sets.
Ben Shelton -> 1.28
Fabio Fognini -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Fabio Fognini
There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Fabio Fognini since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
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. 41 (career-high), Ben will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Acapulco where he lost 6-7(7) 6-4 6-2 to Rune in the 1st round on the 27th of February.
Shelton has a composed 5-5 win-loss record in 2023, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 63-23 record. He has a positive 28-17 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Fabio Fognini
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-15 | 1-3 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-28 | 7-10 | 23-12 | 2-4 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-23 | 0-8 | 23-12 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-26 | 10-9 | 12-12 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-24 | 12-12 | 7-8 | 0-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 88, Fognini will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Santiago where he lost 6-1 7-6(1) to Martin in the 1st round on the 28th of February.
Fabio has an aggregate 1-5 win-loss record in 2023, 0-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Italian has an overall 631-476 record. He has a positive 147-146 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2014. See his history.
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- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Quentin HalysHalys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Guido PellaPella (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Casper RuudRuud (5-3) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (8-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Christian GarinGarin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Oscar OtteOtte (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Andrey RublevRublev – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Taro DanielDaniel (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Marcos GironGiron (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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