Ben Shelton and Stan Wawrinka will square off in the 2^nd round of the Swiss Indoors Basel for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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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 -> 1.37
Stan Wawrinka -> 3.1

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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Stan Wawrinka

There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Stan Wawrinka since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Ben Shelton

Ranked no. 23, Ben reached the 2^nd round after beating Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Etcheverry (6-3 6-4). During the match, Shelton scored 59 points vs Etcheverry’s 44. Shelton was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about the service games, Shelton blasted 8 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Ben Shelton was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (32/38) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shelton was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Etcheverry twice.

Shelton has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 65% of his matches (124-67). 4-2 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Shelton has a compiled35-8 match record in the last 4 years on indoor hard courts.

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

Ben has a composed 38-23 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Basel

Ben has never competed in this tournament before.

Stan Wawrinka

Ranked no. 169, will start his run in Basel after he played his last match in Basel where he defeated 6-3 3-6 7-5 to Mannarino in the 1^st round on the 23^rd of October.

Wawrinka has a composed 10-17 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Wawrinka’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Stockholm.

In terms of his career, The Swiss has an overall 688-403 record. He has a positive 109-85 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in Basel

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2006 and 2011. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Shelton	Wawrinka
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	19	30
Pts	59-44	90-79
Total Points	103	169
Winners	32	44
%Winners	54%	49%

Both Shelton and Wawrinka played 1 match. At the moment, Stan Wawrinka surrendered 1 set while Ben Shelton hasn’t lost a set so far. Shelton has played 1 set(s) less than Wawrinka (2 vs 3). Therefore, Shelton played 11 games less than Wawrinka. The American scored 32 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, The Swiss bagged 44 winners (49%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Shelton	Wawrinka
Aces	8	13
Avg per match	8	13
1st in	38/52	51/83
%1st in	73%	61%
1st pts	32/38	44/51
%1st pts	84%	86%
2nd pts	9/14	15/32
%2nd pts	64%	47%

Shelton managed to score 8 aces . Wawrinka managed to score 13 aces . Shelton won 84% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Wawrinka won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Shelton	Wawrinka
Won	2	3
Converted	2/2	3/4
% Converted	100%	75%
Conceded	1	3
Saved	1	1
% Saved	100%	33%
Times Broken	0	2

Shelton broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The American very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Stan broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Wawrinka conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Shelton
	R1 Etcheverry	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	59-44	59-44
Total points	103	103
Winners	32	32
%Winners	54%	54%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	38/52	38/52
% 1st in	73%	73%
1st pts	32/38	32/38
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	9/14	9/14
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Wawrinka
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	0%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

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