Ben Shelton and Zizou Bergs will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ben Shelton who should win in 2 sets.
Ben Shelton -> 1.3
Zizou Bergs -> 3.54
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Zizou Bergs
There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Zizou Bergs since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Ben Shelton
| 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. 16, Ben will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-4 7-6(5) to Musetti in the 3rd round on the 25th of March.
Shelton has an aggregate 11-7 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Ben’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Auckland and Dallas.
Talking about his overall career, Shelton has an overall 97-51 record. He has a negative 9-10 record on clay.
Previously in Houston
Ben has never competed in this tournament before.
Zizou Bergs
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-28 | 20-16 | 2-5 | 7-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-29 | 9-9 | 17-7 | 15-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-27 | 8-7 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 7-5 | 7-7 | 17-16 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-21 | 2-5 | 15-10 | 21-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 111 (career-high), Bergs reached the 2nd round after defeating Patrick Kypson 7-65 6-3.
In the 1st round, Zizou had a good straight sets win against Kypson (7-65 6-3). During the match Bergs scored 76 points vs Kypson’s 59. Zizou was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Bergs made 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Zizou Bergs was very effective on serve to win 79% (37/47) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zizou was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Kypson once.
Bergs’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Lugano Challenger.
Bergs has an overall 11-8 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Houston
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Houston
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Benoit PairePaire (7-613 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (7-63 6-72 6-4) – See score progression
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Denis KudlaKudla (3-6 7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-5 6-74 6-4) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Max Purcell/Jordan ThompsonPurcell/Jordan Thompson – Evan King/John-Patrick SmithKing/John-Patrick Smith (6-4 6-75 10-4) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-64 7-62) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-2 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-5 6-7(4) 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (7-6(3) 6-7(2) 6-4) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Jeff WolfWolf (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yibing WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Max PurcellPurcell (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction