Flavio Cobolli and Colton Smith will face off in the 1^st round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Flavio Cobolli who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Flavio Cobolli is the pick to win this match.
Flavio Cobolli -> 1.49
Colton Smith -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Flavio Cobolli vs. Colton Smith

There is no head to head record between Flavio Cobolli and Colton Smith since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Flavio Cobolli

Ranked no. 40, Cobolli will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Acapulco where he lost 7-6(4) 7-6(4) to Shelton in the 1^st round on the 24^th of February.

Flavio has an aggregate 2-6 win-loss record in 2025, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Flavio has an overall 192-148 record. He has a positive 53-34 record on hard.

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

Colton Smith

Ranked no. 261, the American got to the 1^st round after beating Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-4 and Pavel Kotov 6-3 7-6(8).

In the qualifications, Smith had a good straight sets win against Kotov (6-3 7-6⁸). During the match Smith scored 82 points vs Kotov’s 72. The American was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about serving, Smith struck 3 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Colton Smith lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Smith put 77% of his first serves in, winning 70% (39/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the 2nd serve. Smith broke Kotov twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Smith started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Cleveland Challenger where he overcame Eliot Spizzirri in the final 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3.

The American has an overall 7-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Colton has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Cristian GarinGarin (7-6⁰ 6-2) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Hugo GastonGaston – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Pablo Carreno-Busta
  Carreno-Busta – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Rudy QuanQuan (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Matteo GiganteGigante – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ethan QuinnQuinn – Gabriel DialloDiallo (7-6⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Adam WaltonWalton – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Colton SmithSmith – Pavel KotovKotov (6-3 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-6⁶ 6-2) – See score progression
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Hugo GastonGaston – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Adam WaltonWalton – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (7-6(3) 6-3) – See score progression

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• Li TuTu – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander BublikBublik – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Quentin HalysHalys – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Benjamin BonziBonzi – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-2) – H2H and prediction
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• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Corentin MoutetMoutet – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zizou BergsBergs – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Tristan BoyerBoyer – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mariano NavoneNavone – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jacob FearnleyFearnley – (0-1) – H2H and prediction