Ben Shelton and Mariano Navone will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 6:00 pm on STADIUM 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ben Shelton who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ben Shelton is the pick to win this match.
Ben Shelton -> 1.26
Mariano Navone -> 3.85

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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Mariano Navone

This will be the 2nd time that Ben Shelton and Mariano Navone square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Shelton (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Shelton won 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in Tokyo back in 2024.

Highlights Ben Shelton vs Mariano Navone – Tokyo 27-September-2024

Ben Shelton

Ben Shelton

8 - 4win/loss

Hard
7-3
I Hard
1-1
Rank
9
High
5
LLLLWWLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 40-24 23-9 7-5 4-6 6-4 0-0
2024 42-26 22-13 8-4 8-5 4-4 0-0
2023 28-26 21-13 4-8 1-2 2-3 0-0
2022 40-11 16-9 0-0 24-2 0-0 0-0
2021 18-7 7-3 5-2 6-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 12 (career-high), Shelton will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Acapulco where he lost 7-6(3) 6-3 to Goffin in the 2nd round on the 26th of February.

Ben has a composed 7-4 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The American’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal at the Australian Open .

Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 135-74 record. He has a positive 72-41 record on hard.

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2024. See his history.

Indian Wells
Shelton's Record

Mariano Navone

Mariano Navone

7 - 8win/loss

Hard
2-4
I Hard
1-1
Clay
4-3
Rank
72
High
29
LWWLWWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 38-31 5-12 30-16 1-1 2-2 0-0
2024 30-28 2-7 27-14 1-4 0-3 0-0
2023 40-23 0-1 40-21 0-0 0-1 0-0
2022 44-25 0-1 44-24 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 40-24 0-0 40-24 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 63, Mariano reached the 2nd round after defeating Learner Tien 7-5 6-4.

In the 1st round, Navone had a good straight sets win against Tien (7-5 6-4). During the match Navone scored 80 points vs Tien’s 71. Navone was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Navone fired 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mariano Navone was very effective on serve to win 74% (31/42) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mariano broke Tien 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Navone has a composed 7-7 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.

Indian Wells
Navone's Record

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

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