Denis Kudla and Abedallah Shelbayh will face off in the quarter of the Las Vegas Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Kudla who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Denis Kudla is the pick to win this match.
Denis Kudla -> 1.79
Abedallah Shelbayh -> 1.95

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Prediction and head to head Denis Kudla vs. Abedallah Shelbayh

There is no head to head record between Denis Kudla and Abedallah Shelbayh since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Denis Kudla

Ranked no. 188, Denis got to the quarter after defeating Johannus Monday 7-6(5) 6-3 and James Kent Trotter 6-4 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Denis had a good straight sets win against Kent Trotter (6-4 6-1). During the match, Kudla scored 60 points vs Kent Trotter’s 34. Kudla was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kudla scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Denis Kudla was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (19/26) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Kent Trotter 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.

Kudla has good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (322-264). 7-4 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kudla has a compiled 152-134 record in the last years on hard.

Denis’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger and the San Luis Potosi Challenger.

Kudla has an aggregate 19-16 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Las Vegas Challenger

Abedallah Shelbayh

Ranked no. 204, Abedallah got to the quarter after defeating Trey Hilderbrand 6-3 3-6 7-5 and Marek Gengel 6-3 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Shelbayh had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-3 6-4). During the match Shelbayh scored 66 points vs Gengel’s 56. Shelbayh was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Shelbayh struck 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Abedallah Shelbayh was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (30/39) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Abedallah broke Gengel twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

Abedallah’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Little Rock Challenger.

The has a compiled 30-24 win-loss record in 2024, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kudla	Shelbayh
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	4	5
Tot Games	39	49
Pts	132-103	176-161
Total Points	235	337
Winners	57	83
%Winners	43%	47%

Both Kudla and Shelbayh played 2 matches. At the moment, Abedallah Shelbayh surrendered 1 set while Denis Kudla hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kudla has played 1 set(s) less than Shelbayh (4 vs 5). Therefore, Kudla played 10 games less than Shelbayh. Denis scored 57 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Abedallah bagged 83 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kudla	Shelbayh
Aces	6	14
Avg per match	3	7
1st in	74/125	113/176
%1st in	59%	64%
1st pts	57/74	83/113
%1st pts	77%	73%
2nd pts	27/51	32/63
%2nd pts	53%	51%

Kudla struck 6 aces (3 per match). Shelbayh fired 14 aces (7 per match). Kudla won 77% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Shelbayh won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kudla	Shelbayh
Won	7	6
Converted	7/11	6/21
% Converted	64%	29%
Conceded	6	18
Saved	4	15
% Saved	67%	83%
Times Broken	2	3

Kudla broke his opponents 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. The American dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The broke his opponents 6 times with a 29% conversion rate. The conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Kudla
	R1 Monday	R2 Kent	Total
Score	7-65 6-3	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	22	17	39
pts	72-69	60-34	132-103
Total points	141	94	235
Winners	38	19	57
%Winners	53%	32%	43%
SERVE
Aces	5	1	6
Double Faults	4	3	7
1st in	48/81	26/44	74/125
% 1st in	59%	59%	59%
1st pts	38/48	19/26	57/74
% 1st pts	79%	73%	77%
2nd pts	14/33	13/18	27/51
% 2nd pts	42%	72%	53%
Breaks
Won	2	5	7
Converted	2/3	5/8	7/11
Converted %	67%	63%	64%
Conceded	4	2	6
Saved	3/4	1/2	4
Saved %	75%	50%	63%
Times Broken	1	1	2

Shelbayh
	R1 Hilderbrand	R2 Gengel	Total
Score	6-3 3-6 7-5	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	30	19	49
pts	110-105	66-56	176-161
Total points	215	122	337
Winners	53	30	83
%Winners	48%	45%	47%
SERVE
Aces	10	4	14
Double Faults	8	2	10
1st in	74/112	39/64	113/176
% 1st in	66%	61%	64%
1st pts	53/74	30/39	83/113
% 1st pts	72%	77%	73%
2nd pts	17/38	15/25	32/63
% 2nd pts	45%	60%	51%
Breaks
Won	4	2	6
Converted	4/14	2/7	6/21
Converted %	29%	29%	29%
Conceded	14	4	18
Saved	11/14	4/4	15
Saved %	79%	100%	90%
Times Broken	3	0	3

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