Ben Shelton and Alexander Bublik will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Bublik who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Bublik is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Bublik -> 1.9
Ben Shelton -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Alexander Bublik

There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Alexander Bublik since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Ben Shelton

Ben Shelton

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Rank
9
High
5
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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. 35 (career-high), the American will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in the Cagliari Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-4 to Djere in the semifinal on the 6th of May.

Shelton has a composed 10-12 win-loss record in 2023, 4-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Cagliari Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Ben has an overall 68-30 record. He has a positive 9-7 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Ben has never competed in this tournament before.

Rome
Shelton's Record

Alexander Bublik

Alexander Bublik

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Rank
11
High
11
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 48-24 12-11 23-6 8-6 5-1 0-0
2024 25-25 10-11 5-6 6-4 4-4 0-0
2023 28-30 3-12 7-9 9-7 9-2 0-0
2022 33-27 5-8 2-6 17-8 9-5 0-0
2021 35-30 14-12 4-6 10-8 7-4 0-0

Ranked no. 49, Bublik reached the 2nd round after defeating Pedro Martinez Portero 6-3 7-64.

In the 1st round, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Martinez Portero (6-3 7-64). During the match Bublik scored 73 points vs Martinez Portero’s 68. The Kazakhstani was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.

About the serving games, Bublik blasted 11 aces and he was not very steady on his 2nd serve to score 11 double faults. Alexander Bublik lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Bublik put 64% of his first serves in, winning 79% (37/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. Bublik broke Martinez Portero twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Alexander’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Marseille.

Bublik has an aggregate 10-17 win-loss record in 2023, 4-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020, 2021 and 2022. See his history.

Rome
Bublik's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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