Abedallah Shelbayh and Lukas Pokorny will face off in the 1^st round of the Nottingham Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Abedallah Shelbayh who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Abedallah Shelbayh is the pick to win this match.
Abedallah Shelbayh -> 1.42
Lukas Pokorny -> 2.69

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Prediction and head to head Abedallah Shelbayh vs. Lukas Pokorny

There is no head to head record between Abedallah Shelbayh and Lukas Pokorny since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Abedallah Shelbayh

Ranked no. 251, Shelbayh will start his run in the Nottingham Challenger after he played his last match in the Maia Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Moro in the 1^st round on the 26^th of November.

This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.

Talking about his overall career, The has an overall 119-86 record. He has a positive 18-16 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Nottingham Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

Lukas Pokorny

Ranked no. 514, Lukas got to the 1^st round after defeating Lui Maxted 6-2 6-4 and Harry Wendelken 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Wendelken (6-1 6-4). During the match Pokorny scored 64 points vs Wendelken’s 42. The Slovakian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Pokorny made 13 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Lukas Pokorny conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Pokorny put 60% of his first serves in, winning 97% (30/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. Lukas broke Wendelken 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Pokorny started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 58% of the points he played.

Pokorny has an aggregate 2-0 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Nottingham Challenger

The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Nottingham Challenger

• Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Mili PoljicakPoljicak (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sandro KoppKopp – Aidan MayoMayo (6-3 6-7⁶ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Henry SearleSearle – Michael GeertsGeerts (7-6⁴ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Johannus MondayJohannus – Ryan PenistonRyan (2-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression

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