Jelle Sels and Max Houkes will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Rome Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CAMPO 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.48
Max Houkes -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Jelle Sels vs. Max Houkes
This will be the 2nd time that Jelle Sels and Max Houkes fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sels (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sels won 6-3 1-6 6-3 in the quarter in M25 Den Haag back in 2022.
Jelle Sels
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-13 | 13-6 | 17-7 | 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. 171, the Dutch reached the 2nd round after defeating Filip Cristian Jianu 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, Sels had a good straight sets win against Cristian Jianu (7-5 6-3). During the match, Sels scored 67 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 55. Sels was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sels wasn’t able to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Jelle Sels was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (29/41) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Jelle broke Cristian Jianu 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Sels has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (292-231). 2-2 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sels has a compiled 173-124 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Dutch has an overall 2-4 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Jelle has never competed in this tournament before.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-11 | 7-3 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303, the Dutch got to the 2nd round after defeating Valentin Vacherot 4-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Vacherot, The Dutch recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Houkes scored 99 points vs Vacherot’s 92. Max was exceptionally aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Houkes scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 8 double faults. Max Houkes lost the serve 3 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Houkes put 72% of his first serves in, winning 68% (47/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (11/27) on the 2nd serve. Houkes broke Vacherot 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Max’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Palmanova.
Houkes has an aggregate 11-10 win-loss record in 2023, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sels | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 29 |
| Pts | 67-55 | 99-92 |
| Total Points | 122 | 191 |
| Winners | 29 | 47 |
| %Winners | 43% | 47% |
Both Sels and Houkes played 1 match. At the moment, Max Houkes lost 1 set while Jelle Sels hasn’t dropped a set so far. Sels has played 1 set(s) less than Houkes (2 vs 3). Therefore, Sels played 8 games less than Houkes. The Dutch scored 29 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch struck 47 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sels | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 41/67 | 69/96 |
| %1st in | 61% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 29/41 | 47/69 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 11/27 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 41% |
Sels didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Houkes made 1 ace . Sels won 71% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Houkes won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sels | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 60% | 56% |
| Conceded | 3 | 14 |
| Saved | 2 | 11 |
| % Saved | 67% | 79% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Sels broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Jelle dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Max broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Houkes conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sels | |||
| R1 Cristian |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 67-55 | 67-55 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 41/67 | 41/67 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 29/41 | 29/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 17/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Houkes | |||
| R1 Vacherot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 99-92 | 99-92 | |
| Total points | 191 | 191 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 69/96 | 69/96 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 47/69 | 47/69 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/27 | 11/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 14 | 14 | |
| Saved | 11/14 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 79% | 79% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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