Karue Sell and Rudolf Molleker will square off in the 2nd round of the Oeiras 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karue Sell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karue Sell is the pick to win this match.
Karue Sell -> 1.45
Rudolf Molleker -> 2.59
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Prediction and head to head Karue Sell vs. Rudolf Molleker
There is no head to head record between Karue Sell and Rudolf Molleker since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Karue Sell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 56-20 | 24-11 | 21-6 | 11-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-3 | 11-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 260, Karue got to the 2nd round after beating Robin Bertrand 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Karue had a good straight sets win against Bertrand (6-2 6-3). During the match, Sell scored 59 points vs Bertrand’s 37. Karue was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sell managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Karue Sell was very effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sell was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Bertrand 3 times.
Sell has a fantastic match record in the last 7 years having won 73% of his matches (140-51). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sell has an aggregate20-9 win-loss record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
The Brazilian has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Oeiras 1 Challenger
The Brazilian has never competed in this tournament before.
Rudolf Molleker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-34 | 4-8 | 15-18 | 7-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 283, the German got to the 2nd round after beating Pol Martin Tiffon 7-6(3) 6-2.
In the 1st round, Rudolf had a good straight sets win against Martin Tiffon (7-63 6-2). During the match Molleker scored 73 points vs Martin Tiffon’s 54. The German was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Molleker recorded 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Rudolf Molleker was quite effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Rudolf broke Martin Tiffon 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Rudolf has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sell | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 21 |
| Pts | 59-37 | 73-54 |
| Total Points | 96 | 127 |
| Winners | 22 | 27 |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% |
Both Sell and Molleker played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sell and Molleker have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sell played 4 games less than Molleker. Karue scored 22 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Molleker struck 27 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sell | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 5 |
| 1st in | 26/46 | 35/58 |
| %1st in | 57% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 27/35 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 13/23 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 57% |
Sell fired 6 aces . Molleker made 5 aces . Sell won 85% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Molleker won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sell | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 100% | 57% |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Karue broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Karue had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Rudolf broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The German conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sell | |||
| R1 Bertrand |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-37 | 59-37 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/46 | 26/46 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Molleker | |||
| R1 Martin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 73-54 | 73-54 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 35/58 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 27/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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W Tennis Scores in Oeiras 1 Challenger
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (6-76 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Duarte ValeVale – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (2-6 6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (1-6 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Max Hans RehbergHans Rehberg – Matias SotoSoto (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Pedro AraujoAraujo (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Micah BraswellBraswell – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel RinconRincon – Gastao EliasElias (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Antoine Cornut-ChauvincCornut-Chauvinc – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-2 0-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri – Matej DodigDodig (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Jeff WolfWolf (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Karue SellSell – Robin BertrandBertrand (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (6-7(6) 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Duarte ValeVale – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (2-6 6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Daniel RinconRincon – Gastao EliasElias (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Max Hans RehbergHans Rehberg – Matias SotoSoto (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Alexander RitschardRitschard (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Duarte ValeVale – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Antoine Cornut-ChauvincCornut-Chauvinc (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Karue SellSell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam DraxlDraxl – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Micah BraswellBraswell – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
