Ben Shelton and Jakub Mensik will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the ASB Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on CENTRE 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 Ben Shelton who should win in 3 sets.
Ben Shelton -> 1.56
Jakub Mensik -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Jakub Mensik
This will be the 2nd time that Ben Shelton and Jakub Mensik fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shelton (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Shelton won 4-6 6-3 6-4
in the 2nd round in Indian wells back in 2024.Highlights Ben Shelton vs Jakub Mensik – Indian wells 08-March-2024
Ben Shelton
42 - 26win/loss
21
13
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-26 | 22-13 | 8-4 | 8-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-26 | 21-13 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-11 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 24-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-7 | 7-3 | 5-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, Ben will start his run in Auckland after he played his last match in 2 where he lost 6-1 4-6 7-6(14) to Kokkinakis in the Rubber 1 on the 21st of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Ben has an overall 128-70 record. He has a positive 66-38 record on hard.
Previously in Auckland
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.
Jakub Mensik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-27 | 26-12 | 6-4 | 7-6 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 10-6 | 17-11 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-16 | 18-4 | 17-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 49, Mensik got to the 2nd round after defeating Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-2 4-6 7-5.
In the 1st round, Mensik defeated Carreno-Busta (6-2 4-6 7-5). During the match Mensik scored 101 points vs Carreno-Busta’s 87. Mensik was pretty aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Mensik recorded 18 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jakub Mensik was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (45/55) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Czech broke Carreno-Busta 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Jakub has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Auckland
Mensik has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (1-6 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-66 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Francisco ComesanaComesana (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-2 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Luca NardiNardi – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-2 1-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Gabriel DialloDiallo (7-65 2-6 7-67) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Sumit NagalNagal (6-78 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Isaac BecroftBecroft (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Christian Harrison/Rajeev RamHarrison/Rajeev Ram – Constantin Frantzen/Hendrik JebensFrantzen/Hendrik Jebens (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Luciano DarderiDarderi (5-7 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Nikola Mektic/Michael VenusMektic/Michael Venus – Santiago Gonzalez/Lucas MiedlerGonzalez/Lucas Miedler (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-2 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Sebastian BaezBaez (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Nuno BorgesBorges (1-0) – H2H and prediction