Giulio Zeppieri and Jelle Sels will play each other in the 1st round of the Bergamo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on Bergamo Italcementi. 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 Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.28
Jelle Sels -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Giulio Zeppieri vs. Jelle Sels
This will be the 2nd time that Giulio Zeppieri and Jelle Sels fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sels (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sels won 6-3 3-1 ret. in the quarter in the Tulln Challenger back in 2022.
Giulio Zeppieri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-16 | 8-4 | 7-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-26 | 7-5 | 19-13 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-31 | 1-2 | 25-22 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 0-0 | 26-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-12 | 0-0 | 7-7 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 130, Giulio will start his run in the Bergamo Challenger after he played his last match in the Brest Challenger where he lost 7-6(6) 6-3 to Gaston in the 2nd round on the 25th of October.
Giulio has an aggregate 41-26 win-loss record in 2023, 14-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Cherbourg Challenger where he overcame Titouan Droguet in the final 7-5 7-6(4).
Talking about his overall career, Zeppieri has an overall 139-111 record. He has a negative 21-23 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Bergamo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Jelle Sels
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-11 | 13-6 | 13-5 | 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. 548, the Dutch reached the 1st round after defeating Ergi Kirkin 6-2 6-2 and Ugo Blanchet 6-3 7-62.
In the qualifications, Sels had a good straight sets win against Blanchet (6-3 7-62). During the match Sels scored 74 points vs Blanchet’s 65. Sels was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Sels recorded 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jelle Sels lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sels put 71% of his first serves in, winning 68% (36/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the 2nd serve. The Dutch was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Blanchet 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jelle started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Jelle has an aggregate 6-23 win-loss record in 2023, 3-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bergamo Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Jelle SelsSels (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (2-0) – H2H and prediction
