Daniel Evans and Jelle Sels will play each other in the 1st round of the Barletta Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniel Evans who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Daniel Evans is the pick to win this match.
Daniel Evans -> 1.65
Jelle Sels -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Daniel Evans vs. Jelle Sels
There is no head to head record between Daniel Evans and Jelle Sels since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Daniel Evans
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9-14 | 2-4 | 6-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-26 | 8-11 | 3-8 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-27 | 11-15 | 5-7 | 2-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-24 | 12-11 | 6-6 | 3-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 204, the Brit will start his run in the Barletta Challenger after he played his last match in the Naples Challenger where he lost 6-3 1-6 6-4 to Pellegrino in the 1st round on the 25th of March.
Evans has an aggregate 3-8 win-loss record in 2025, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Brit has an overall 579-389 record. He has a negative 49-59 record on clay.
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
Daniel has never competed in this tournament before.
Jelle Sels
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-14 | 3-5 | 5-6 | 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. 291, Sels got to the 1st round after beating Filippo Romano 6-4 6-1 and Milos Karol 2-6 7-6(3) 6-4.
In the qualifications against Karol, The Dutch recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-63 6-4).During the match Sels scored less points (2) than Karol. In fact, the world no. 204 won 101 points vs Karol’s. That means that Sels was more focused during the important points. Sels was very aggressive to blast 50 winners.
About the serving games, Sels scored 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jelle Sels lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sels put 68% of his first serves in, winning 68% (50/73) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. Sels broke Karol twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sels started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Sels’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Cherbourg Challenger.
Sels has a compiled 9-8 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Matej DodigDodig – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-1 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxim MrvaMrva – Ergi KirkinKirkin (7-5 2-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mili PoljicakPoljicak – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (2-6 6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Oleksandr OvcharenkoOvcharenko (2-6 7-63 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Robin BertrandBertrand – Mathys ErhardErhard (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel EvansEvans – Jelle SelsSels (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lilian MarmousezMarmousez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PicchionePicchione – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
