Jelle Sels and Oleksii Krutykh will face off in the qualifications of the Brasov Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jelle Sels who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jelle Sels is the pick to win this match.
Jelle Sels -> 1.85
Oleksii Krutykh -> 1.89
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Prediction and head to head Jelle Sels vs. Oleksii Krutykh
This will be the 2nd time that Jelle Sels and Oleksii Krutykh face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Krutykh (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Krutykh won 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in the Lugano Challenger back in 2023.
Jelle Sels
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-30 | 13-6 | 28-16 | 7-8 | 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. 419, Sels reached the qualifications after defeating Ilya Snitari 7-62 6-4.
In the qualifications, Sels had a good straight sets win against Snitari (7-62 6-4). During the match, Sels scored 82 points vs Snitari’s 69. Sels was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sels made 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jelle Sels was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Jelle broke Snitari twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Sels has positive record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (307-246). 16-7 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Sels has an overall 182-135 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Sels’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Mandya,M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and M25 Reggio Emilia.
Jelle has an overall 29-13 win-loss record in 2024, 16-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brasov Challenger
Jelle has never competed in this tournament before.
Oleksii Krutykh
14 - 21win/loss
569
160
LLWWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-40 | 12-8 | 29-31 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-32 | 13-8 | 15-16 | 4-5 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 49-27 | 2-3 | 44-20 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-25 | 8-3 | 32-20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 13-7 | 7-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 523, Krutykh got to the qualifications after defeating Mircea-Alexandru Jecan 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Oleksii had a good straight sets win against Jecan (6-2 6-1). During the match Krutykh scored 59 points vs Jecan’s 38. Krutykh was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Krutykh blasted 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Oleksii Krutykh conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Krutykh put 67% of his first serves in, winning 66% (21/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the 2nd serve. Oleksii broke Jecan 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Oleksii has an aggregate 14-21 win-loss record in 2024, 13-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sels | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 15 |
| Pts | 82-69 | 59-38 |
| Total Points | 151 | 97 |
| Winners | 33 | 21 |
| %Winners | 40% | 36% |
Both Sels and Krutykh played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sels and Krutykh have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sels played 8 games more than Krutykh. The Dutch scored 33 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Ukrainian managed to score 21 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sels | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 3 |
| 1st in | 45/69 | 32/48 |
| %1st in | 65% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 33/45 | 21/32 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 12/16 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 75% |
Sels managed to score 5 aces . Krutykh blasted 3 aces . Sels won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Krutykh won 66% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sels | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 33% | 83% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Dutch broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Jelle surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Ukrainian broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Krutykh was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Sels | |||
| Q1 Snitari |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 82-69 | 82-69 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 45/69 | 45/69 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 33/45 | 33/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Krutykh | |||
| Q1 Jecan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 59-38 | 59-38 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/48 | 32/48 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 21/32 | 21/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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