Stefanos Tsitsipas and Ben Shelton will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefanos Tsitsipas who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefanos Tsitsipas is the pick to win this match.
Stefanos Tsitsipas -> 1.27
Ben Shelton -> 3.78
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Prediction and head to head Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Ben Shelton
There is no head to head record between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Ben Shelton since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-12 | 9-5 | 7-5 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-22 | 13-11 | 22-6 | 8-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-24 | 19-9 | 17-5 | 11-6 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 61-24 | 18-8 | 17-4 | 18-9 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 55-19 | 26-8 | 23-5 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 4, Stefanos will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Monfils in the 2nd round on the 9th of August.
Stefanos has a composed 39-14 win-loss record in 2023, 15-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title in Los Cabos where he defeated Alex De Minaur in the final 6-3 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, The Greek has an overall 432-193 record. He has a positive 164-80 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2022. See his history.
Ben Shelton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-13 | 9-5 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 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. 40, Shelton got to the 2nd round after beating Christopher Eubanks 5-7 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round against Eubanks, Ben recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-4 6-4). During the match Shelton scored 95 points vs Eubanks’s 82. Ben was pretty aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Shelton bagged 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Ben Shelton was very effective on serve to win 78% (47/60) of his 1st serve and 69% (20/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Shelton broke Eubanks twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
The American’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Cagliari Challenger.
Shelton has an overall 14-21 win-loss record in 2023, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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