Ben Shelton and James Duckworth will square off in the 2^nd round of the Boss Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTER 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.

As per the initial odds, Ben Shelton is the pick to win this match.
Ben Shelton -> 1.35
James Duckworth -> 3.22

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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. James Duckworth

This will be the 2^nd time that Ben Shelton and James Duckworth fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they fought against each other, Duckworth won 6-3 7-6(2) in the qualifications in Adelaide back in 2022.

Ben Shelton

Ranked no. 14 (career-high), Shelton will start his run in Stuttgart after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-4 6-2 6-1 to Auger-Aliassime in the 3^rd round on the 1^st of June.

Shelton has a composed 19-11 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the year on grass.

His best result of the season was conquering the title in Houston where he defeated Frances Tiafoe in the final 7-5 4-6 6-3.

Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 105-55 record. He has a negative 2-3 record on grass.

Previously in Stuttgart

Ben has never competed in this tournament before.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 101, the Australian got to the 2^nd round after beating Khumoun Sultanov 7-6⁵ 7-6⁴, Rudolf Molleker 6-3 3-6 6-3 and Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4 7-6²

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In the 1^st round, James had a good straight sets win against Herbert (6-4 7-6²). During the match Duckworth scored 69 points vs Herbert’s 56. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Duckworth fired 10 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. James Duckworth was very efficient on serve to win 88% (38/43) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Herbert once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).

James’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.

The Australian has an overall 27-14 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Stuttgart

• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (7-5 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-7⁹ 7-6⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander BublikBublik – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-1 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jack DraperJack – Marcos GironMarcos (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Richard GasquetGasquet – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Jack DraperDraper (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Alexander BublikBublik (0-2) – H2H and prediction