Denis Shapovalov and Nishesh Basavareddy will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Shapovalov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Denis Shapovalov is the pick to win this match.
Denis Shapovalov -> 1.3
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 3.52
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Prediction and head to head Denis Shapovalov vs. Nishesh Basavareddy
There is no head to head record between Denis Shapovalov and Nishesh Basavareddy since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Denis Shapovalov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-14 | 7-6 | 2-5 | 5-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-25 | 9-10 | 5-6 | 16-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-13 | 6-6 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-26 | 22-12 | 4-4 | 7-6 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-23 | 11-11 | 7-6 | 4-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 32, Shapovalov will start his run in Acapulco after he won the title in Dallas after beating 7-6(5) 6-3 Ruud in the final.
Denis has an aggregate 7-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Dallas where he beat Casper Ruud in the final 7-6(5) 6-3.
Shapovalov won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Denis has an overall 316-210 record. He has a positive 135-92 record on hard.
Previously in Acapulco
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018 and 2023. See his history.
Nishesh Basavareddy
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-15 | 9-5 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 49-18 | 34-11 | 0-0 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-6 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 106, Basavareddy got to the 1st round after beating James Duckworth 6-4 6-2 and Stefan Kozlov 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Nishesh had a good straight sets win against Kozlov (6-2 6-4). During the match Basavareddy scored 63 points vs Kozlov’s 48. Nishesh was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Basavareddy scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Nishesh Basavareddy was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nishesh broke Kozlov 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Basavareddy started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Auckland.
Nishesh has a compiled 9-3 win-loss record in 2025, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLLLLWL Tennis Scores in Acapulco
- Tomas MachacMachac – Jakub MensikMensik (6-4 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Casper RuudRuud – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinDavid – Rinky HijikataRinky (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonBen – Flavio CobolliFlavio (7-6(4) 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Marcos GironMarcos – Adam WaltonAdam (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- David GoffinGoffin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Tomas MachacMachac (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Tommy PaulPaul (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (1-2) – H2H and prediction
