Ben Shelton and Jan-Lennard Struff will play each other in the 2nd round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jan-Lennard Struff who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jan-Lennard Struff is the pick to win this match.
Jan-Lennard Struff -> 1.43
Ben Shelton -> 2.83
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Jan-Lennard Struff since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Ben Shelton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-22 | 21-12 | 8-4 | 3-2 | 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. 38, Ben will start his run in Madrid after he played his last match in Barcelona where he lost 6-2 7-6(1) to Ruud in the 2nd round on the 18th of April.
The American has a composed 8-10 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Ben has an overall 66-28 record. He has a positive 7-5 record on clay.
Previously in Madrid
Ben has never competed in this tournament before.
Jan-Lennard Struff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-17 | 4-8 | 15-5 | 2-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-24 | 21-9 | 14-7 | 5-6 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-22 | 3-10 | 7-4 | 12-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-30 | 8-11 | 11-8 | 6-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-15 | 10-6 | 1-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 65, the German reached the 2nd round after beating Luca Nardi 7-5 6-4 and Lorenzo Sonego 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Jan-Lennard had a good straight sets win against Sonego (6-3 6-1). During the match Struff scored 57 points vs Sonego’s 40. Jan-Lennard was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Struff scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Jan-Lennard Struff was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (18/22) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jan-Lennard broke Sonego 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Struff’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger,the Manama Challenger and the Phoenix Challenger.
Jan-Lennard has an overall 29-12 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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