Fabio Fognini and Abedallah Shelbayh will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 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 Abedallah Shelbayh who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Abedallah Shelbayh is the pick to win this match.
Abedallah Shelbayh -> 1.75
Fabio Fognini -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Fabio Fognini vs. Abedallah Shelbayh
There is no head to head record between Fabio Fognini and Abedallah Shelbayh since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Fabio Fognini
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-8 | 4-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-23 | 0-8 | 23-12 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-26 | 10-9 | 12-12 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-24 | 12-12 | 7-8 | 0-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-10 | 4-5 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 103, the Italian reached the 2nd round after defeating Yusuf Qaed 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Fabio had a good straight sets win against Ebrahim Ahmed Abdulla Qaed (6-1 6-1). During the match, Fognini scored 51 points vs Ebrahim Ahmed Abdulla Qaed’s 19. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fognini recorded 3 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Fabio Fognini was very effective on serve to win 95% (19/20) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Fabio broke Ebrahim Ahmed Abdulla Qaed 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Fognini has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (252-202). 2-1 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Fognini has a compiled 86-77 record in the last years on hard.
The Italian has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Fognini has never competed in this tournament before.
Abedallah Shelbayh
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-14 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-32 | 27-15 | 7-7 | 5-6 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-7 | 17-5 | 3-1 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-8 | 4-4 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-4 | 3-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 187, Shelbayh got to the 2nd round after defeating Jozef Kovalik 7-64 6-3.
In the 1st round, Abedallah had a good straight sets win against Kovalik (7-64 6-3). During the match Shelbayh scored 86 points vs Kovalik’s 73. Shelbayh was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Shelbayh struck 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Abedallah Shelbayh was very efficient on serve to win 82% (36/44) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Abedallah broke Kovalik once after converting 13% of his break points (1/8).
The has a composed 8-5 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fognini | Shelbayh |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 22 |
| Pts | 51-19 | 86-73 |
| Total Points | 70 | 159 |
| Winners | 19 | 36 |
| %Winners | 37% | 42% |
Both Fognini and Shelbayh played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Fognini and Shelbayh have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Fognini played 8 games less than Shelbayh. The Italian scored 19 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Shelbayh managed to score 36 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fognini | Shelbayh |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 7 |
| 1st in | 20/33 | 44/70 |
| %1st in | 61% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 19/20 | 36/44 |
| %1st pts | 95% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 16/26 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 62% |
Fognini scored 3 aces . Shelbayh scored 7 aces . Fognini won 95% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Shelbayh won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fognini | Shelbayh |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 1 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 1/8 |
| % Converted | 63% | 13% |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Fabio broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Italian pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The broke his opponent once with a 13% conversion rate. Abedallah was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Fognini | |||
| R1 Ebrahim Ahmed Abdulla Qaed |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 51-19 | 51-19 | |
| Total points | 70 | 70 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 20/33 | 20/33 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 19/20 | 19/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Shelbayh | |||
| R1 Kovalik |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 86-73 | 86-73 | |
| Total points | 159 | 159 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/70 | 44/70 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/44 | 36/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/26 | 16/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/8 | 1/8 | |
| Converted % | 13% | 13% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWLLWW Tennis Scores in Manama Challenger
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Cem IlkelIlkel (3-6 6-1 7-66) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Lukas KleinKlein (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Nerman FaticFatic – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (7-63 7-65) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Elias YmerYmer (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Yusuf QaedQaed (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Peter BuldoriniBuldorini – Ryan PenistonPeniston (2-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Laurent LokoliLokoli – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel RinconRincon – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-4 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh – Jozef KovalikKovalik (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-66 ret.) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laurent LokoliLokoli – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Gastao EliasElias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
