Luca Nardi and Jelle Sels will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Koblenz Challenger for the 2nd 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.

See updated oddsAs 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 2nd 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 2nd round in the Split Challenger back in 2022.

Luca Nardi

Luca Nardi

5 - 2win/loss

Hard
3-2
I Hard
2-0
Rank
98
High
67
LWWWLLLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 23-20 9-8 8-9 6-3 0-0 0-0
2024 32-27 14-14 8-5 9-4 1-4 0-0
2023 41-36 20-10 8-13 12-12 1-1 0-0
2022 33-20 5-2 11-10 17-8 0-0 0-0
2021 33-24 3-3 26-13 4-8 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 83, Nardi reached the 1st 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

Koblenz Challenger
Nardi's Record

Jelle Sels

Jelle Sels

1 - 2win/loss

Hard
1-2
I Hard
0-0
Rank
335
High
127
LLWWLWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-17 3-5 11-8 4-3 0-1 0-0
2024 48-30 13-6 28-16 7-8 0-0 0-0
2023 11-27 5-4 3-14 3-6 0-3 0-0
2022 48-33 0-0 26-17 22-15 0-1 0-0
2021 37-31 2-3 14-13 20-14 0-0 1-1

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 2nd round on the 8th 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.

Koblenz Challenger
Sels's Record

Tennis Scores in Koblenz Challenger

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