Matej Dodig and Jelle Sels will square off in the 1st round of the Brasov Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matej Dodig who should win in 3 sets.
Matej Dodig -> 1.56
Jelle Sels -> 2.33
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Prediction and head to head Matej Dodig vs. Jelle Sels
This will be the 2nd time that Matej Dodig and Jelle Sels face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sels (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Sels won 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in M25 Monastir back in 2023.
Matej Dodig
33 - 12win/loss
317
317
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-12 | 12-2 | 21-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-16 | 1-2 | 38-12 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 317 (career-high), Matej will start his run in the Brasov Challenger after he played his last match in the Poznan Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Sachko in the 1st round on the 18th of June.
The Croatian has a compiled 33-12 win-loss record in 2024, 21-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Matej’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Rovinj.
Talking about his overall career, Dodig has an overall 76-28 record. He has a positive 59-22 record on clay.
Previously in the Brasov Challenger
Matej has never competed in this tournament before.
Jelle Sels
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-13 | 13-6 | 17-7 | 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. 416, the Dutch got to the 1st round after beating Ilya Snitari 7-62 6-4 and Oleksii Krutykh 4-6 6-3 7-63.
In the qualifications against Krutykh, Sels recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 7-63). During the match Sels scored 102 points vs Krutykh’s 99. The Dutch was quite aggressive to blast 50 winners.
About the serving games, Sels made 13 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Jelle Sels lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sels put 62% of his first serves in, winning 72% (50/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (21/43) on the 2nd serve. Jelle broke Krutykh 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jelle started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Sels’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Mandya,M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and M25 Reggio Emilia.
Jelle has an overall 30-13 win-loss record in 2024, 17-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Brasov Challenger
- Nerman FaticFatic – Adolfo Daniel VallejoDaniel Vallejo (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Ioan Alexandru ChiritaAlexandru Chirita (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Gastao EliasElias (7-66 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Nerman FaticFatic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Orlando LuzLuz – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Vlad Andrei DancuAndrei Dancu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan – Murkel Alejandro Dellien VelascoAlejandro Dellien Velasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan PalosiPalosi – Alexander WeisWeis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Martin KrumichKrumich (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu Mihai PapoeMihai Papoe – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (0-0) – H2H and prediction