Patrick Zahraj and Jelle Sels will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Cherbourg Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:30 pm on JEAN JAURES. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Patrick Zahraj who should win in 3 sets.
Patrick Zahraj -> 1.52
Jelle Sels -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Patrick Zahraj vs. Jelle Sels
There is no head to head record between Patrick Zahraj and Jelle Sels since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Patrick Zahraj
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 17-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 42-31 | 9-5 | 17-15 | 14-9 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
2023 | 28-16 | 4-3 | 15-10 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
2022 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 319, Zahraj reached the semifinal after beating Maxence Beauge 7-6(2) 7-6(5), Tom Gentzsch 6-1 6-4, Alexey Vatutin 6-1 6-4, Mae Malige 4-6 6-3 6-3 and Arthur Fery 7-5 6-1.
In the quarter, Zahraj had a good straight sets win against Fery (7-5 6-1). During the match, Zahraj scored 72 points vs Fery’s 58. Patrick was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Zahraj blasted 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Patrick Zahraj lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zahraj put 68% of his first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the 2nd serve. The German broke Fery 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Zahraj started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Zahraj has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (125-87). 17-7 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Zahraj has a compiled41-21 win-loss record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Patrick’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Pau Challenger.
Patrick has an aggregate 17-8 win-loss record in 2025, 17-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cherbourg Challenger
The German has never competed in this tournament before.
Jelle Sels
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 7-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 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. 367, the Dutch got to the semifinal after defeating Antoine Escoffier 6-4 6-4, Adrien Gobat 6-4 6-1 and Yuta Shimizu 7-5 6-3.
In the quarter, Jelle had a good straight sets win against Shimizu (7-5 6-3). During the match Sels scored 75 points vs Shimizu’s 61. Jelle was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Sels fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jelle Sels lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sels put 68% of his first serves in, winning 69% (35/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the 2nd serve. Jelle broke Shimizu 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jelle hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Sels has an aggregate 6-7 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Zahraj | Sels |
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Match played | 4 | 3 |
Tot Set | 9 | 6 |
Tot Games | 90 | 58 |
Pts | 317-268 | 210-165 |
Total Points | 585 | 375 |
Winners | 146 | 86 |
%Winners | 46% | 41% |
Zahraj played 4 matches while Sels competed in 3 matches. Zahraj started his run from the qualifications while Sels had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Patrick Zahraj dropped 1 set while Jelle Sels hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Zahraj has played 3 sets more than Sels (9 vs 6). Therefore, Zahraj played 32 games more than Sels. Zahraj scored 146 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch blasted 86 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Zahraj | Sels |
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Aces | 28 | 12 |
Avg per match | 7 | 4 |
1st in | 202/309 | 119/182 |
%1st in | 65% | 65% |
1st pts | 146/202 | 86/119 |
%1st pts | 72% | 72% |
2nd pts | 58/107 | 36/63 |
%2nd pts | 54% | 57% |
Zahraj recorded 28 aces (7 per match). Sels scored 12 aces (4 per match). Zahraj won 72% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Sels won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Zahraj | Sels |
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Won | 14 | 12 |
Converted | 14/23 | 12/29 |
% Converted | 61% | 41% |
Conceded | 22 | 19 |
Saved | 16 | 15 |
% Saved | 73% | 79% |
Times Broken | 6 | 4 |
Patrick broke his opponents 14 times with a 61% conversion rate. Patrick conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. The Dutch broke his opponents 12 times with a 41% conversion rate. Sels conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded.
Zahraj | |||||||
Q1 Beauge | Q3 Gentzsch | R1 Vatutin | R2 Malige | 1/4 Fery | Total | ||
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Score | 7-62 7-65 | 6-1 6-4 | 6-1 6-4 | 4-6 6-3 6-3 | 7-5 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
Tot Games | 26 | 17 | 17 | 28 | 19 | 107 | |
pts | 85-77 | – | 60-38 | 100-95 | 72-58 | 317-268 | |
Total points | 162 | 0 | 98 | 195 | 130 | 585 | |
Winners | 44 | 25 | 45 | 32 | 146 | ||
%Winners | 52% | 0% | 42% | 45% | 44% | 46% | |
SERVE | |||||||
Aces | 8 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 28 | |
Double Faults | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | ||
1st in | 55/81 | / | 31/49 | 69/110 | 47/69 | 202/309 | |
% 1st in | 68% | 0% | 63% | 63% | 68% | 65% | |
1st pts | 44/55 | / | 25/31 | 45/69 | 32/47 | 146/202 | |
% 1st pts | 80% | 0% | 81% | 65% | 68% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 17/26 | / | 11/18 | 17/41 | 13/22 | 58/107 | |
% 2nd pts | 65% | 0% | 61% | 41% | 59% | 54% | |
Breaks | |||||||
Won | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 | ||
Converted | 0/4 | / | 4/5 | 6/9 | 4/5 | 14/23 | |
Converted % | 0% | 0% | 80% | 67% | 80% | 61% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 22 | ||
Saved | 3/3 | 0/ | 2/3 | 9/13 | 2/3 | 16 | |
Saved % | 100% | – | 67% | 69% | 67% | 61% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
Sels | |||||||
R1 Escoffier | R2 Gobat | 1/4 Shimizu | Total | ||||
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Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-4 6-1 | 7-5 6-3 | ||||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||
Tot Games | 20 | 17 | 21 | 58 | |||
pts | 72-62 | 63-42 | 75-61 | 210-165 | |||
Total points | 134 | 105 | 136 | 375 | |||
Winners | 26 | 25 | 35 | 86 | |||
%Winners | 36% | 40% | 47% | 41% | |||
SERVE | |||||||
Aces | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | |||
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
1st in | 36/60 | 32/47 | 51/75 | 119/182 | |||
% 1st in | 60% | 68% | 68% | 65% | |||
1st pts | 26/36 | 25/32 | 35/51 | 86/119 | |||
% 1st pts | 72% | 78% | 69% | 72% | |||
2nd pts | 14/24 | 7/15 | 15/24 | 36/63 | |||
% 2nd pts | 58% | 47% | 63% | 57% | |||
Breaks | |||||||
Won | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | |||
Converted | 4/11 | 5/9 | 3/9 | 12/29 | |||
Converted % | 36% | 56% | 33% | 41% | |||
Conceded | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 | |||
Saved | 5/7 | 5/6 | 5/6 | 15 | |||
Saved % | 71% | 83% | 83% | 47% | |||
Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Tennis Scores in Cherbourg Challenger
- Lukas Pokorny/Giorgio RiccaPokorny/Giorgio Ricca – Jakub Paul/David PelPaul/David Pel (5-7 6-4 11-9) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Jurij RodionovRodionov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelle SelsSels – Patrick ZahrajZahraj (0-0) – H2H and prediction