Luca Nardi and Jelle Sels will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Koblenz Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 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 Luca Nardi who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Nardi is the pick to win this match.
Luca Nardi -> 1.132
Jelle Sels -> 5.2

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Prediction and head to head Luca Nardi vs. Jelle Sels

This will be the 2^nd time that Luca Nardi and Jelle Sels play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nardi (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Nardi won 6-4 6-0 in the 2^nd round in the Split Challenger back in 2022.

Luca Nardi

Ranked no. 83, Nardi reached the 1^st round after beating Tom Gentzsch 6-3 4-6 7-5 and Ryan Nijboer 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Nardi had a good straight sets win against Nijboer (6-4 6-4). During the match, Nardi scored 71 points vs Nijboer’s 58. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Regarding the service games, Nardi recorded 2 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Luca Nardi was extremely efficient on serve to win 83% (24/29) of his 1st serve and 68% (19/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Luca broke Nijboer twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Luca started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Nardi has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 56% of his matches (158-122). 2-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Nardi has a compiled45-37 match record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

Luca has an aggregate 5-2 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Koblenz Challenger

Jelle Sels

Ranked no. 318, Sels will start his run in the Koblenz Challenger after he played his last match in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he lost 1-6 6-1 7-6(1) to Michalski in the 2^nd round on the 8^th of January.

Jelle has a composed 1-2 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

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

In terms of his career, Sels has an overall 350-286 record. He has a positive 79-71 record on indoor hard courts.

Tennis Scores in Koblenz Challenger

• Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Michael GeertsGeerts (4-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel MasurMasur – Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Max SchoenhausSchoenhaus (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Gianluca MagerMager (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Alexey VatutinVatutin – Ivan GakhovGakhov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jelle SelsSels – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Matteo MartineauMartineau (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Vadym UrsuUrsu – Mathys ErhardErhard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Henri SquireSquire – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (0-0) – H2H and prediction